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 .
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...
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 .
A Jaunt Through ‘The Odyssey’
Beware of gifts-bearing Greeks. The post A Jaunt Through ‘The Odyssey’ appeared first on Above the Law .
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.
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.
Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks
AI seems to have a liberal bias
X Money begins limited US rollout
Only Premium and Premium X subscribers get the privilege of banking with Elon for now.
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 .
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.
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 .
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.
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 .
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
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 .
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 […]
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
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
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
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
The chip in my hand and the chip in her brain
Implanted chips are are moving from novelty to clinical reality.
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 .
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
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.
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 .
GAO Flags BEAD as Vulnerable to Fraud
Audit says decentralized funding structure creates risks, NTIA has implemented recommended controls.
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
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
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.
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 .
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 .
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
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.
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...
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 .
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.
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
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.
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 .
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 .