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View More NewsThe report is here. . Note that the results were based on queries sent “from an IP address in Australia,” so this didn’t just reflect (for instance) an AI company choosing to apply Chinese law to requests that seem to come from China. The Executive Summary:The Oversight Board’s first evaluation of large language models (LLMs) shows that some of the world’s most-used models from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Meta and OpenAI are significantly less likely to criticize political regimes that restrict free expression. The research, which stems from the Board’s case work on government pressure on social media platforms, tested to…
From F.F. v. Valley View Comm. Unit School Dist. 365U, decided Monday by Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman (N.D. Ill.): Plaintiff is an 18-year-old female who was previously enrolled at Bolingbrook High School. On November 4, 2024, at around 10:00 a.m., Plaintiff entered a girls’ multi-use restroom labeled “girls’ bathroom.” After using and exiting a stall, Plaintiff observed a transgender student, who she was familiar with, dressed in “male-typical clothing … with no visible indication of female identity,” standing in close proximity to her stall. Plaintiff feared that the student could have seen her undergarments or her exposed body through small…
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The rise and fall of Graham Platner, who has just withdrawn from the U.S. Senate race in Maine in which he was challenging Republican incumbent Susan Collins, makes one think of a fairy tale or myth in which a character of humble status is suddenly elevated to wealth and high status by some magical entity but is led astray by character flaws such as greed or hubris and is just as precipitously hurled back into lowly obscurity. In Graham’s case, the magical entities were progressive political operatives Dan Moraff, Leanne Fan and Moritz Katz, who thought they had found the…
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In brief Anthropic said it expects to bring its Claude Mythos AI model to customers “in the coming weeks” after completing additional tests. Claude…
from the at-least-someone-is-doing-something dept Thirty-five (thirty-five!) former federal judges are asking a current federal judge to reopen the case where Donald Trump sued his…
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