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A Bar Exam Disaster For The Ages

Worried about the bar exam this week? Well, it could be worse! Just ask the class of 2014. The post A Bar Exam Disaster For The Ages appeared first on Above the Law .
Above the Law (legal tech) 3d ago Regulation

Benedict Cumberbatch, Alan Cumming and Benedict Wong urge UK to take action against Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

Benedict Cumberbatch, Alan Cumming and Benedict Wong wrote an op-ed Monday citing the dangers to industry competition, jobs and a concentration of power if Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery merge. “We have watched, with growing alarm, what consolidation does to the breadth and depth of the work we produce: independent film acquisitions at the...
The Hill Technology 3d ago Jobs & economy

Microsoft debuts AI cybersecurity offerings as competition heats up

It includes the new agentic model MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and the Project Perception platform, with the tech giant claiming it’ll do a better job than its rivals at half the cost. The post Microsoft debuts AI cybersecurity offerings as competition heats up appeared first on CyberScoop .
CyberScoop 3d ago Jobs & economyMilitary & security

A Jaunt Through ‘The Odyssey’

Beware of gifts-bearing Greeks. The post A Jaunt Through ‘The Odyssey’ appeared first on Above the Law .
Above the Law (legal tech) 3d ago Regulation

Police AI platform uses ‘Easter eggs’ to verify human review

Seldom used words, like "axolotl," a type of salamander, are inserted in Code Four's output, ensuring that law enforcement officers carefully review AI-generated content before submitting it into evidence.
StateScoop 3d ago Regulation

Jim Cramer warns AI's circular financing frenzy echoes the dot-com bubble

CNBC's Jim Cramer said reports of Nvidia backing OpenAI's data center expansion revived memories of the financing arrangements that preceded the dot-com crash.
CNBC Technology 3d ago Environment

Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks

AI seems to have a liberal bias
The Register 3d ago Bias & fairness

X Money begins limited US rollout

Only Premium and Premium X subscribers get the privilege of banking with Elon for now.
Engadget AI 3d ago Finance, VC & PE

A Blanche Confirmation Hearing Witness Is Getting Death Threats. Thanks, Sens. Hawley And Schmitt!

Weirdly, no questions about Blanche... The post A Blanche Confirmation Hearing Witness Is Getting Death Threats. Thanks, Sens. Hawley And Schmitt! appeared first on Above the Law .
Above the Law (legal tech) 3d ago Regulation

Agentic Browsers Rewind Web Security by 20 Years

PleaseFix class of flaws makes it easy to socially engineer agentic browsers and highlights weaknesses in how they handle cross-origin requests.
Dark Reading (AI security) 3d ago Agents & autonomy

The Bar Exam Pep Talk Every Student Needs To Read

If you aren’t going to study the day before the exam, what are you going to do? Read this. The post The Bar Exam Pep Talk Every Student Needs To Read appeared first on Above the Law .
Above the Law (legal tech) 3d ago RegulationChildren & education

Nvidia and OpenAI in talks for up to $250 billion backstop to fund AI infrastructure plans

The backstop would let OpenAI raise debt for a data center campus in Pike County, Ohio, on the strength of Nvidia's credit.
CNBC Technology 3d ago Environment

Redacted watchdog report spotlights Navy staffing strains impacting undersea surveillance

The Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General warned that manning the IUSS has proven to be an "enduring challenge" for the Navy. The post Redacted watchdog report spotlights Navy staffing strains impacting undersea surveillance appeared first on DefenseScoop .
DefenseScoop 3d ago PrivacyMilitary & security

Exclusive: News outlet killed story on plagiarism allegations after Cambridge prof hired law firm

Jason Arday In September 2025, Times Higher Education had a bombshell story in the works: A star sociology professor at the University of Cambridge had allegedly plagiarized parts of his Ph.D. thesis and several journal articles. In one of the articles, the borrowed text appeared in quotes from subjects the professor, Jason Arday, claimed to … Continue reading Exclusive: News outlet killed story on plagiarism allegations after Cambridge prof hired law firm
Retraction Watch 3d ago RegulationCopyright & IP

The Lawyer Who Helped Build Kirkland Thinks AI Will Build Its Successor

Former Kirkland partner David Fox believes AI-powered firms could reshape the entire legal industry. The post The Lawyer Who Helped Build Kirkland Thinks AI Will Build Its Successor appeared first on Above the Law .
Above the Law (legal tech) 3d ago Regulation

NBC Comedy ‘Newlyweds’ Casts Emma Meisel, Ignacio Diaz-Silverio, Bill O’Neill

NBC’s new multi-cam comedy “Newlyweds” has cast three new series regulars, Variety has learned. Emma Meisel, Ignacio Diaz-Silverio and Bill O’Neill have all joined the series opposite leads Téa Leoni and Tim Daly. As previously reported, series executive producer Jamie Lee Curtis will also appear in a recurring guest star role. The logline for the […]
Variety (AI) 3d ago Regulation

Breaking Down the Ending of Agent Kim Reactivated

The thrilling action series follows an unassuming single dad who reveals his past as a secret agent when his daughter disappears
Time Tech 3d ago Agents & autonomy

New Options Emerge for Disenrolled Howard Students

New Options Emerge for Disenrolled Howard Students Joshua.Bay Mon, 07/27/2026 - 04:58 PM SUNY, CUNY and U of the District of Columbia are offering support and enrollment opportunities to those affected by Howard’s decision to unenroll 502 incoming students. Byline(s) Joshua Bay
Inside Higher Ed Tech 3d ago Children & education

Big Tech credit risks rise sharply as AI spending soars

Investors are increasingly concerned over rush of borrowing to fund huge investments in data centres
Financial Times Technology (headlines) 3d ago Finance, VC & PE

OpenAI hacking incident is ‘warning shot’ on cyber security, Microsoft’s AI chief warns

Software giant says ‘no choice’ but to develop AI defences against onslaught of automated attacks
Financial Times Technology (headlines) 3d ago Military & security

The chip in my hand and the chip in her brain

Implanted chips are are moving from novelty to clinical reality.
NextGov/FCW 3d ago Healthcare

Secret Service wants more AI robots for target practice

The Department of Homeland Security unit is planning to award a contract later this year to expand its autonomous robotic training tools. The post Secret Service wants more AI robots for target practice appeared first on FedScoop .
FedScoop 3d ago Agents & autonomy

Nvidia may guarantee $250bn so OpenAI can afford the data centre that will house its chips

Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. The backstop would let OpenAI lease a 10-gigawatt campus in southern Ohio that SoftBank’s energy subsidiary is developing. The reason such a guarantee is needed is straightforward: OpenAI […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Next Web AI 3d ago Environment

FBI: Breaking Affiliate Trust Sped Along LockBit's Takedown

An FBI agent explains how the mulitnational law-enforcement Operation Cronos was successful in disrupting the largest ransomware group of its time.
Dark Reading (AI security) 3d ago RegulationAgents & autonomy

Makeout Video Elevates Wachtell To The Internet’s Main Character

The firm that once assigned associates to translate memes for the partners has become a meme. The post Makeout Video Elevates Wachtell To The Internet’s Main Character appeared first on Above the Law .
Above the Law (legal tech) 3d ago Regulation

GAO Flags BEAD as Vulnerable to Fraud

Audit says decentralized funding structure creates risks, NTIA has implemented recommended controls.
Broadband Breakfast 3d ago Transparency

Orange is building a €3bn French data centre business, funded from New Zealand

Orange and Morrison announced an exclusivity agreement on Monday to create a jointly controlled data centre company in France, backed by a €3 billion investment programme combining Orange assets, Morrison equity, and debt. The venture targets 400 megawatts of capacity, close to ten times what Orange operates today. Orange would contribute five French data centres […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Next Web AI 3d ago Bias & fairnessFinance, VC & PE

Yugabyte targets the missing memory and knowledge layer for enterprise AI agents

Enterprise investment in agentic artificial intelligence is accelerating, but the infrastructure supporting those systems is still catching up. Organizations are moving agents into customer support, software development, sales operations and other production workflows. Yet many of those agents remain stateless, unable to retain durable context, share knowledge with other agents or explain how previous decisions […] The post Yugabyte targets the missing memory and knowledge layer for enterprise A
SiliconANGLE AI 3d ago Agents & autonomyFinance, VC & PE

Starting or running a business with AI? There are legal risks you can’t afford to ignore

AI can work for you while you sleep. But if your chatbot or AI agent gets it wrong, you could be the one who pays the price.
The Conversation 3d ago Agents & autonomy

Nvidia could reportedly backstop $250B loan for new OpenAI data center campus

Nvidia Corp. is reportedly in talks to backstop a $250 billion loan for OpenAI Group PBC. The Wall Street Journal on Sunday cited sources as saying that the financing would cover the cost of a new data center campus in Ohio. According to CNBC, the site is expected to provide 10 gigabytes of computing capacity. […] The post Nvidia could reportedly backstop $250B loan for new OpenAI data center campus appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
SiliconANGLE AI 3d ago Environment

The DOJ (Dis)Honors Program Is Having Trouble Finding Takers

Prestige works as a recruiting tool right up until the label becomes a liability. The post The DOJ (Dis)Honors Program Is Having Trouble Finding Takers appeared first on Above the Law .
Above the Law (legal tech) 3d ago Regulation

The FDA just picked its first company to sell an unauthorised device to Medicare patients

The US Food and Drug Administration named Dexcom as the first manufacturer selected for its Technology-Enabled Meaningful Patient Outcomes pilot on Tuesday. The programme, known as TEMPO, allows digital health devices to be offered to Medicare patients before the agency has authorised them for that use. The mechanism is enforcement discretion. Rather than granting approval, the FDA […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Next Web AI 3d ago Healthcare

How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal

A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.
NYT Technology 3d ago Environment

EPA exempts data center power plants from pollution limits seeking to prevent acid rain

The Trump administration announced Monday that it is exempting power plants that only serve data centers and do not connect to the broader grid from pollution limits that seek to prevent acid rain. The administration announced new guidance on Monday clarifying that these “islanded” power plants do not have to be part of the Clean Air Act’s...
The Hill Technology 3d ago Environment

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open weights and infrastructure after shaking up the frontier model race

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3's model weights and made parts of its infrastructure open source. The Chinese model nearly matches Western frontier models such as Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on popular benchmarks, but independent tests found major gaps in cyber and math performance, possibly pointing to distillation. The article Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open weights and infrastructure after shaking up the frontier model race appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder 3d ago Military & security

Army picks GM Defense, Ford and BC Customs to build nine ISV-Heavy prototypes

The prototype vehicles are expected to be provided to the Army by March 30, 2027.
Breaking Defense (AI) 3d ago Military & security

Microsoft built an agentic security system with red, blue, and green team AI agents. It enters public preview August 3.

Microsoft announced Project Perception on Monday, an agentic security system that coordinates three classes of AI agents in a continuous loop: red team agents that find vulnerabilities before attackers do, blue team agents that investigate and assess which risks are meaningful, and green team agents that fix defences across the environment. The system enters public […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Next Web AI 3d ago Safety & alignmentAgents & autonomy

Op-ed: Over 2,000 proposals aim to govern AI. Not a single one addresses a long-term regulatory framework

AI can't be regulated by the invisible hand of the market. We need a comprehensive future-focused regulatory framework.
CNBC Technology 3d ago Regulation

FIU Installs Sanctioned Trump Attorney As Interim Law Dean, Overruling Its Own Search Committee

FIU continues to have an Epstein problem. The post FIU Installs Sanctioned Trump Attorney As Interim Law Dean, Overruling Its Own Search Committee appeared first on Above the Law .
Above the Law (legal tech) 3d ago Regulation

OpenAI says more workers are using ChatGPT to do other people's jobs

OpenAI analyzed over 800,000 work-related ChatGPT messages and found that 43.5 percent of job-specific queries involve tasks from other professions. The company calls this "task crossover." The trend is most pronounced at small businesses, where users increasingly handle specialized work without dedicated experts. The article OpenAI says more workers are using ChatGPT to do other people's jobs appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder 3d ago Jobs & economy
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