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Roy is the best!

VERTICAL VIDEO - IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE AS PAINFUL AS IT LOOKS Using video to share what you know can be one of the strongest ways to build your reputation and your relationships at the same time.

🌟🙌 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

Fight, @jimmykimmel.com, please fight. We don't want to live in Russia. Come on, #ABC and #Disney - do you really want to see what this demonstration of cancel culture looks like? Put Jimmy Kimmel Live back on where they belong ASAP.

🎉I JUST EARNED MY "AI FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES" CERTIFICATION! I'm excited to have received my "AI For Professional Services Certification" from the AI Academy by SmarterX. The course useful as I build my own model, called "Gain The AI Edge," to help firms understand more about the use of AI.

🟪🟩 "Meta‘s unauthorized AI chatbots of virtual celebrities including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez were 'flirty' and 'routinely made sexual advances,' according to Reuters. The company removed about a dozen of them after a Reuters..." variety.com/2025/digital...

🟪🟩 Salesforce Cuts 4,000 Support Jobs Using AI Agents "In a Fortune interview just two months earlier, he emphasized that AI would augment rather than replace workers, stating "the humans are not going away" and dismissing "scary narratives" about AI layoffs." www.perplexity.ai/page/salesfo...

🟪🟩 Hacker at Starbucks Helped Secure $243M Tesla Verdict "Remarkably, shortly after Tesla learned the plaintiffs had obtained the data through the hacker's work, the company claimed it could now locate the same information on its own servers." www.perplexity.ai/page/hacker-...

1) [AI PRIVACY - TURN THIS SETTING OFF] This is a Claude privacy update you should not ignore. Anthropic just changed how Claude handles your chat data. Deadline: September 28, 2025 #AI #Privacy #DataGovernance #GainTheAIEdge

[Compact, Brain-Inspired AI Model Outperforming LLMs] "The model operates through iterative refinement over short 'thinking' bursts.. determining whether to continue processing or submit final answer..near-perfect performance on path-finding in mazes, tasks conventional LLMs failed completely."

[DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME ON LINKEDIN] You are busy and don't have hours (not even an hour) to spend on LinkedIn every day. That is why I want you to spend your time in the wisest way possible. (Cont'd)...

[WILL AI Learn Anything From The Tough Lessons We Are STILL Learning From Social Media?] www.myrlandmarketing.com/will-ai-lear...

[VIRTUAL VIDEO TIPS] If you are on video for a meeting that you care about, make sure your camera is at eye level, not looking down or up at you. Also, when you are talking, make eye contact with the camera lens, not your monitor. The people or person you are talking to are behind the lens.

GMail Breach Affecting 2.5 Villion Users "Google confirmed a massive security breach affecting 2.5 billion Gmail users after hackers successfully compromised a corporate Salesforce database through sophisticated social engineering tactics." www.perplexity.ai/page/google-...

1) Let's make sure we aren't confusing AGI with being sentient. "The Salesforce CEO ... current AI systems fundamentally lack human qualities. "It's not a person, and it's not intelligent, and it's not conscious..." www.perplexity.ai/page/salesfo...

"President Trump's sweeping tariff escalation has triggered a cascade of economic disruption across global markets and American businesses, with the World Trade Organization warning that U.S. trade policies have severely deteriorated global trade prospects..." www.perplexity.ai/page/trump-s...

"The scientific community is abandoning X, formerly Twitter, en masse for Bluesky, driven by growing frustration with misinformation, harassment, and what researchers now describe as a platform that has become "professionally useless and unpleasant." www.perplexity.ai/page/scienti...

UNACCEPTABLE AI ACTIVITY: A MUST READ. Reuters reports that Meta deliberately programmed its AI chatbot to have sensual chats with children, to engage in racist conversation, and to provide false medical information. Make sure you scroll down to look at the charts. www.reuters.com/investigates...

[OpenAI Realizes The Rollout of GPT-5 Hasn't Been Great] CEO Sam Altman must have seen 1000 times the number of negative comments I saw overnight about the GPT-5 rollout. Some people were excited, but many more were not happy.

I forgot how much fun Bluesky is in the wee hours when I can't sleep. Even in your snarkiest moments, you're all still kinder than most are over on the 🐦.

Hallelujah, our short national [global, actually] nightmare with shared chats on ChatGPT being indexed by Google appears to be over. Posts about this were flooding my feeds, and rightfully so. OpenAI ... don't ever do this again, k? From @techcrunch.com ... www.linkedin.com/posts/nancym...?

[REGISTRATION CLOSES FRIDAY] Linked(In) For Lawyers ... Because I have seen requests rise for firm-specific cohorts for this course, I am not sure I will be hosting another open cohort with live Q&A for several months. I would love to have you join us! linkedcourse.com

Let's do this, Perkins Coie!! www.perkinscoiefacts.com/filings/plai... #RuleOfLaw

[DO YOU HAVE TO CREATE VIDEO?] This is what happens when you move from the written word to the spoken word to the visual word, what I call The Relationship Continuum. #VideoCoachForLawyers #ContentCoachForLawyers #LegalMarketing #TheRelationshipContinuum

AI: Do Women Have A Seat At The Artificial Intelligence Table? https://bit.ly/3QMvTfm #AI

I am so happy for you!

LINKEDIN: WHO SHOULD YOU FOLLOW? I can give you a dozen effective ways you can use LinkedIn to build your reputation, relationship, and practice, but let's start with who you can follow today. Here are two groups of people I want you to focus on that will have a positive impact.

I stand with Ukraine. 💙💛

[DEEPSEEK: NATIONAL SECURUTY CONCERNS] "Reps. Gottheimer and LaHood, who both serve on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, each issued public statements pointing to grave and deeply held national security concerns regarding DeepSeek...

[THE AI DIARIES] 1) Too many models with confusing names and use cases! Sam Altman announced they hate all of the different model names as much as we do. They understand they are confusing and cause people pause when trying to figure out which to choose.

[CHATGPT GOES TO COLLEGE] "On Tuesday, OpenAI announced plans to introduce ChatGPT to California State University's 460,000 students and 63,000 faculty members across 23 campuses, reports Reuters." arstechnica.com/ai/2025/02/c...

[WOMEN + AI] I'm in Nashville for the inaugural Women+AI Summit at Vanderbilt Law. This was a fully-sponsored one-day event that brought women AI pioneers & explorers from many industries together to help steer this enormous ship that has landed. This is just the start. 🌟 #WAI #AI #WomenInAI

Gav, YOU are the best and should be followed by everyone! Thank you for being so kind!

[MY LEGAL LIFE] Thanks so much to my friend Ben Chiriboga and Nexl for inviting me to be a guest on your "This Legal Life" podcast. We could have talked for hours! 😊 #LegalMarketing #Podcasting

Why Relying Solely On Your Firm To Share Your Content Isn’t Enough When you take your valuable time to create content, it is important that it gets the attention it deserves. After all, you are not creating content as a hobby. https://bit.ly/4axkkBz

[FRIENDLY BLUESKY REMINDER] Whether you're brand new to @bsky.app, or you've been here for a while, please remember to fill out your profile. When you follow others, they check you out. They might not know why they should reciprocate and follow you back if there is nothing there.

1/ [TIKTOK + PERPLEXITY] Wow, at first blush, how odd. I need to know more than this article outlines, but this is interesting. "KEY POINTS Perplexity AI submitted a bid on Saturday to TikTok parent ByteDance, proposing that Perplexity merge with TikTok U.S., CNBC has learned. #TikTok #Perplexity

What she and he said

It's official...for now. #TikTok

Some interesting, albeit safe 2025 predictions made by Forbes 👇 AI agents will no doubt top the agenda, but how far off are we from autonomous systems actually managing our daily lives? www.forbes.com/sites/robtoe...

Excellent!

Yes, if it doesn't seem like him, it probably isn't. Although, in about 3-6 months, if this leadership swap keeps up, it could be.

1/ChatGPT Search Now Available: "OpenAI’s AI-powered web search experience is now live for all ChatGPT users — with several new features in tow. By default, ChatGPT will automatically determine which questions to route through ChatGPT Search, or users can tap a new “Search the web” icon in...

PSA: Please be cautious when subscribing to moderation lists—make sure you trust the list owner! Not naming names, but during a routine check of clearsky, I found myself on a couple of fraudulent lists falsely advertising their purpose. I'm sure there are plenty of troll accounts doing this.

As my friend @ambercadabra.bsky.social posted over on Threads, everyone was excited in the beginning of 🧵 because everyone and everything was so nice (I'm paraphrasing), but she warned them that, because people will be people, the hate would make its way over there. The same thing (cont'd)

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: Here is a quick, easy, and memorable way to connect with clients and potential clients this month. You know, that month when others are backing off of business development because they think everyone is too distracted to pay attention. www.linkedin.com/posts/nancym...

It's an honor to be added to this lost, @gavward.bsky.social. Thank you!

This will warm your heart and maybe make your eyes a little wet. 💗🥹 youtu.be/o4OlL0OpbW8?...

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield rolled back a policy change that would have capped payments for anesthesia for patients, and would have denied claims altogether if any given procedure exceeded a time limit.