while cooking, listening to this in the background. interesting because it details how/why a titan shifts towards guardrails & human oversight of AI youtu.be/SvrVKZhMDLw?...

prof drops rec to brief a case in the optional final prep, am reminded why it is important to view the full opinion & not any "edited" version (even when that is the one assigned by class). the edited leaves out the wife calling girls her husband sexually abused as "your whores are here".

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"The Stanford-led research, published in Science, also indicates that it may one day be possible to let users take control of their own social media algorithms." paper link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

while studying for the remaining law school finals, am noticing how i make notes to myself using # comments & <></> for my version of law school "outlines". am mixing domains that only make sense to me. am a fan of commenting one's code, context, & labeling data. this should surprise no one.

Throughout history, pecans have been overlooked, poached, cultivated and improved. Today, American trees produce hundreds of million of pounds of pecans – 80% of the world’s pecan crop. (via @us.theconversation.com) https://to.pbs.org/4rbKTV7

Blackstone invests $50M into compliance agent-focused Norm Ai, which is launching an independent law firm offering "AI-native legal services" (Norm Ai) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

"Hype, Horseshit & Human Intelligence" on Robots and Red Tape podcast youtu.be/gSibn4aoyuY

fascinating. "a system that pairs lawyers and immigrants, and it promises to speed up the filling of forms."

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US Patent Office issues new guidelines for AI-assisted inventions reut.rs/4oeZ1Kp

when i was an editor, we had huge discussions re: "beginner" technical content. it is, amongst the most challenging type of content to do for any technology. curious, so am checking out anthropic's "beginner" content. interesting how anthropic recommends testing their system. so, why go easy on it

interesting. "Based on Claude’s estimates, people use Claude for legal and management tasks that would have taken nearly two hours," www.anthropic.com/research/est...

Meat-alternative food company Beyond Meat owes rival Vegadelphia Foods $38.9 million for infringing a Vegadelphia trademark covering the phrase "Where Great Taste Is Plant-Based," a Massachusetts jury has determined @blakebrittain.bsky.social reut.rs/48z66kq

huh. the type of writing for law school exams differs from what i would typically write for papers. also, any/all writing for the law classes differ bc expectations are different for "tone", structure, etc. i also do all assignments in google docs as "proof" of work www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbCQ...

There's a lot of free dining on Thanksgiving and some great places to volunteer as well. missionlocal.org/2025/11/wher...

An AI translation tool may perform very well for a language pair like English and Spanish, but introduce significant errors when it’s used for less common languages...One article, for instance, mistranslated the English term “street food” into Kiswahili as “food of the road.” buff.ly/FiAyV9Z

AI startup Juries.ai on November 24 sued co-founder Vincent Sheu for allegedly stealing source code and business strategies to build a competitor after the company fired him reut.rs/44xZwbp

Pitching a story about obscure science requires a different approach than one about a more familiar subject. But it can be done, writes TON/@bwfund.bsky.social‬ @willvh.bsky.social. Here, he shows you how. 🧪

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wired. submitted final paper for a grad school law class tonight. have now completed three classes. finals for two more async law classes then I’ll be done for the semester.

The Times report reveals new details about the administration’s broader campaign against the University of California system.

Interviews with current and former OpenAI employees detail how updates that made ChatGPT more appealing to boost growth sent some users into delusional spirals (New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

as i assess what law classes to take next, am curious about what this new "certification" is from uc berkeley law. it was mentioned in their recent "on the docket" newsletter. am considering one of their online async classes vs the in-person night class from uc law sf.

fascinating. "constantly dealing with competitive weirdos" www.reddit.com/r/LawSchool/...

Science-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 revenue rose 46% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI training that generated $23.4M through Sept. (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Sources: the White House has put on hold a draft executive order that would seek to preempt state AI laws, following bipartisan backlash (Karen Freifeld/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Design software company Figma was hit with a proposed class action in California federal court on Friday for allegedly misusing its customers' designs to train artificial intelligence models @blakebrittain.bsky.social reut.rs/3LUJouc

also in this article Greystar has "hundreds of buildings in California [and] will have to pay $7 million as part of a settlement agreement in an antitrust lawsuit announced this week." Because of algorithmic rent/price setting.

A look at the "explosion" of LA media upstarts, like the LA Local News Initiative, which has $18M in funding, SFGate's Southland, and nonprofit LA Public Press (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The subscription service will allow users to make remixes, covers, and new songs using the voices of artists and compositions of songwriters who choose to participate.

if you are looking for a recording of the hearing on risk and benefits of ai chatbots, this is the link (bc the pbs link has some sound issues, unfortunately). www.youtube.com/live/6rGZxWs...

Professor Pamela Samuelson, co-director of the Center for Law & Technology, among UC Berkeley experts addressing AI’s legal and economic implications: https://bit.ly/3K0FnUv #BerkeleyLaw #AI @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social#BerkeleyLaw

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responded to a classmate in a class discussion with secondary source links (outside of class curriculum) that have a lot of context regarding fair use and "training ai models". sharing here.... www.whitecase.com/insight-aler...

SCOTUS declines to hear an appeal by Gesture Technology Partners over its right to challenge expired patents, leaving in place a win for Apple, Google, and LG (Blake Brittain/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

interesting & funny. princeton cs prof using ai to track ai hallucinations in court filings. www.polarislab.org/ai-law-track...

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huh "one respondent said that AI had helped them avoid $100,000 in legal research." www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-ult...

"McMahon rejected Cohere's argument that the direct infringement claim was insufficiently alleged,...publishers had provided 75 examples of allegedly infringing outputs that were obtained by plugging in a 'variety of common-sense, natural-language user queries.'" www.law360.com/technology/a...