After Warner Bros. deal, Paramount's debt has been downgraded to junk status Basically, the ratings agency thinks the combined entity faces a ton of competition & there's a risk the entire enterprise fails -- debt attached to it is therefore high-risk www.wsj.com/business/med...

As of 2025, this analysis of privacy policies indicates that every major AI company uses your private conversations to train their models by default. Every prompt, file, photo, personal detail: all of it feeds directly into model training. arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05382

NEW: Our play-by-play on how Anthropic’s negotiations with the Pentagon fell apart, (and how Open AI swooped in). With @julianbarnes.bsky.social @cademetz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/t...

WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Brokers have told the FT that war risk insurers have submitted cancellation notices for policies covering ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil chokepoint, with prices set to rise as much as 50% in the coming days ft.trib.al/Dc82Tff

Seems bad! www.cnbc.com/2026/03/01/e...

story to tell her about the financial benefits of social responsibility

Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling for Congress to come back to Washington immediately and vote on a war powers resolution regarding Iran.

Now out in the American Sociological Review We present the first large-scale assessment of the structure and evolution of temporalities expressed in U.S. climate change news coverage (2000 to 2021). For this, we analyzed more than 23,000 statements about climate change effects and actions. 🧵 1/

I’m old enough to remember when this was supposed to be an outrage

Excellent statement from the Center for Democracy and Technology’s @alexreevegivens.bsky.social, who notes that concern about today’s action is wide ranging and bipartisan www.linkedin.com/posts/alexan...

The government insists that they get to use Anthropic's software for any purpose they consider legal. Anthropic says no. Negotiations go nowhere. Now the administration is designating them a supply chain risk--something normally reserved for corporations of foreign adversaries.

"...India has made itself the world’s back office, providing an educated, English-speaking work force to do tasks more cheaply than in the US or Europe. Now, A.I. threatens to do to India what its outsourcing model did to the rest of the world: replace hundreds of thousands of office workers."

Will use this statistic in a future class to illustrate sample selection issues 🙂

Look forward to being at this conference on AI and healthcare organized by the University of Pittsburgh www.business.pitt.edu/ai_health_co...

From a responsible AI lens, it is correct that a developer is insisting that guard rails be maintained from a national security lens, the question is what contractual terms should be set to private developer Also, shouldn't the DoD develop its own foundation models www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

The trove of files released by the Department of Justice, illuminates Epstein’s deep interest and entrenchment in the scientific community. But the files also underscore how he used his power and money in ways that kept women out of places where they might succeed. https://bit.ly/4qWgPLz

Important thread about dehumanization by and for the benefit of tech companies w/lots of good resources

5 authors by whom I’ve read at least 5 books Jeffrey Archer VS Naipaul Ian McEwan Orhan Pamuk William Trevor

Gold for team USA! 🇺🇸 Winter Olympics have me hooked! #olympicsmenshockey

Agree completely, and tbh I don’t understand it

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

Gorsuch’s thrilling paean to Article I applies with even more power to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of the 1965, the Fair Housing Act of 1968, and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, as each one depended on generational efforts to pass them.

Tesla has to pay historical $243 million judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says

We won our tariff case!! Yay!! A 6-3 decision. Much more to come later. Here is the link to the decision: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published Feb. 2025)

Pleasure to have a thoughtful conversation with VictorBlackwell on CNN This Morning Weekend, about the societal risks from AI, tech regulation efforts by US states and AI guard rails #aisafety #responsibleAI

Watched the new Wuthering Heights movie! It is a good watch even though it isn’t too faithful to the original. I mean, the entire second half of the book is gone! Heathcliff in the book is a lot more macabre than what is portrayed in the movie. #wutheringheights

As women become scarcer in India, some of the social and economic conditions that sustain strong son preference begin to weaken, pointing to a ‘self-correcting’ mechanism within the missing women crisis. Read today's article to learn more:

In my latest for @forbes.com, I highlight the risks of algorithmic collusion. The popularity of algorithmic pricing, and especially reinforcement learning based pricing, makes this a compelling area to understand antitrust enforcement for high tech www.forbes.com/sites/anjana...

We often pigeonhole people as either a "maths " or an "arts“ person, but in Shakespeare’s time this divide didn’t exist. I spoke with @Folger.edu about why looking at Shakespeare through the eyes of a mathematician can help students to appreciate both disciplines. www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...

NEW by me: ChatGPT thinks the South has stupider people. It thinks sub-Saharan Africa has the worst-quality food on earth. And it thinks the whiter your neighborhood, the more attractive the people. New research lets you see ChatGPT's hidden biases about YOUR community. 🧵 bit.ly/4asLD0x

Speculative Futures is coming to the MSU Museum. Join me in conversation with Professor Stacey Robinson. You will have the opportunity to participate in a zine-making session as part of the program! #MuSeUm #Afrofuturism #SpeculativeFutures museum.msu.edu/events/specu...

ICYMI: A new study from @oii.ox.ac.uk and @oxprimarycare.bsky.social, carried out in partnership with @mlcommons.org and other institutions warns of risks of AI chatbots giving medical advice. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My paper, Habeas and the 1948 Judicial Code, is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review (@stanlrev.bsky.social). I argue that the 1948 Judicial Code, not the 1867 Habeas Corpus Act, should be the statutory focus for inquiry into the scope of habeas review. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Please read this whole thread. It will give you hope and strength. Food will taste better.

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Best half time show in a while! The symbolism of the electric poles, and what a tribute to the vibrancy of PR, the beauty of everyday life. #halftime

Was that Pedro Pascal? And Jessica Alba? Very creative visuals #halftimeshow

Recommendations using engagement metrics will boost AI generated content. We will soon be drowning in AI slop; folks will rely on micro influencers, booktoks etc for book recos Personally, I check out physical books from the local public library #aislop www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

Doesn't WaPo have a fact checker who can establish PR is part of the US?

An incredible documentary about a First Lady...must watch I'm talking about the Netflix documentary "Becoming" -about Michelle Obama

Need a mood boost? Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl

NEW: lawmakers in new york rolled out a proposed data center moratorium bill today, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce legislation pausing data center development in the past few *weeks*:

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Doing this webinar on ICE and the future of American democracy with Columbia SIPA tomorrow. I hope some of y'all will register and tune in! columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.