Day: April 28, 2026

Congress unlikely to fast-track Trump’s ballroom after dinner attackCongress unlikely to fast-track Trump’s ballroom after dinner attack

The News Republicans will find it very difficult to make good on their vows to fast-track President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, even after Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner attack targeting him and his administration. Democrats are not convinced that the $400 million ballroom is needed, seeing little connection ...

University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI SlopUniversity Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop

Arizona State University rolled out a platform called Atomic that creates AI-generated modules based on lectures taken from ASU faculty by cutting long videos down to very short clips then generating text and sections based on those clips.  Faculty and scholars I spoke to whose lectures are included in Atomic ...

People Using AI to Represent Themselves in Court Are Clogging the SystemPeople Using AI to Represent Themselves in Court Are Clogging the System

The number of pro se legal cases, meaning trials where a defendant or plaintiff represents themselves in court without an attorney, have increased dramatically since the wide adoption of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, according to a pre-print research paper.  The authors of the paper, titled “Access to ...

Did a Time Traveling Superintelligent AI Try to Warn About White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting? An InvestigationDid a Time Traveling Superintelligent AI Try to Warn About White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting? An Investigation

Tweets containing an abstract, psychedelic 3D stock image have million and millions of views on X because it is supposedly the key to a superintelligent, time-traveling AI conspiracy that attempted to warn people about the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner.  I’m gonna try to explain the mind-numbing conspiracy ...