February 8, 2025 by Gary Price
UPDATE (2/10; 6pm EST) Federal Judge Grants Restraining Order on NIH Funding Cuts (via The Hill) Judge Blocks Trump’s $4 Billion Cuts to Biomedical Research After Lawsuit From 22 States (via Courthouse News Service) UPDATE (2/10; Noon EST) 22 States Sue to Block Trump Administration Cuts to NIH Research Payments (via STAT) News Release (Attorney […]
February 4, 2025 by Gary Price
Arkansas Arkansas Senator Seeks to Abolish Atate Library and PBS Oversight Boards (via Arkansas Advocate) Fired Library Director Sues Central Arkansas County, Alleging Retaliation and First Amendment Breach (via Arkansas Advocate) California Radio Program: The Battle Against Book Bans in San Diego County(via KPBS) Digital Preservation As the Trump Admin Deletes Online Data, Scientists and […]
December 19, 2024 by Gary Price
A Research Agenda From the Columbia Convening on AI Openness and Safety (via Mozilla Foundation) Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized (via WIRED) Generative AI Literacy: Twelve Defining Competencies (preprint) (via arXiv) Industry Bodies Recommend Consistency in AI Audiobook Narration Terminology (via The Bookseller) See Also: Official Statement: New Naming Guidelines for AI-Narrated […]
December 15, 2024 by Gary Price
From HathiTrust: In January 2025, HathiTrust will once again celebrate Public Domain Day. This coming year, titles published in 1929 will enter the public domain in the United States, including more than 76,720 items in the HathiTrust collection. Some of these will also be viewable worldwide. Global readers will also gain public domain access to […]
December 5, 2024 by Gary Price
Dow Jones/Factiva Dow Jones Negotiates AI Usage Agreements with Nearly 4,000 News Publishers (via Nieman Lab) Ethics Striking a Balance: Navigating the Ethical Dilemmas of AI in Higher Education (via EDUCAUSE Review) Impact Shaping AI’s Impact on Billions of Lives (via arXiv) UCLA An Upcoming UCLA Humanities Class Will Utilize AI-Generated Textbook and Assignments (via […]
December 4, 2024 by Gary Price
Statement From Internet Archive While we are deeply disappointed with the Second Circuit’s opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the Internet Archive has decided not to pursue Supreme Court review. We will continue to honor the Association of American Publishers (AAP) agreement to remove books from lending at their member publishers’ requests. We thank the many readers, […]
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December 3, 2024 by Gary Price
Agents ChatGPT Education Peer Review Privacy Scholarly Communications Technology University of Texas Libraries Yale Library
November 8, 2024 by Gary Price
Education New AI Tools Are Promoted As Study Aids for Students. Are They Doing More Harm Than Good? (via EdSurge) Legal OpenAI Defeats News Outlets’ Copyright Lawsuit Over Ai Training, For Now (via Reuters) ||| Full Text of Decision
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November 4, 2024 by Gary Price
Literacy GLAT: The Generative AI Literacy Assessment Test (preprint; via arXiv) LLMs A Practical Guide to Gaining Value from LLMs (MIT Sloan Review) Open AI/ChatGPT Ask Me Anything! How ChatGPT Got Hyped Into Being (preprint, via SocArXiv) OpenAI Research Finds That Even Its Best Models Give Wrong Answers a Wild Proportion of the Time (Futurism) Privacy […]
October 25, 2024 by Gary Price
Alabama Battle of the Books: What Children Should or Should Not Read, New Policy For Minors at Fairhope Public Library (via WKRG) Florida Escambia School Board Members Again Shielded From Testifying in Book Removal Case (via PNJ) Georgia Cobb County Removes 6 More Books From School Libraries Over Content (via Fox 5 Atlanta) Minnesota Osseo […]