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DeepMind: “Today, we are introducing AlphaGenome Atlas: a platform (detailed in our paper) containing predictions for the effects of 9 billion single-nucleotide variants — every single-letter change possible — in the human genome.It is the most comprehens…

Wired: “The intricate, 5.6 trillion-pixel map covers approximately 75 percent of the sky and includes about 4 billion celestial objects.

404 Media via non paywall site: “Border Patrol is running secretive predictive policing units that analyze Americans’ financial activity and other data, then feed that intelligence to local police who pull people over who are not suspected of any specific…

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One First – The Justice Papers – Leaving to the whims of individual justices the fate of their internal papers is a recipe for inconsistency and obscurity for records with significant historical value: “…I had been waiting until things calmed down (ha!)

Ars Technica: “In July, the Trump administration relegated endangered leatherback turtles, sea lions, and whales to mere collateral damage in its race to profit from the oceans.

Follow up to Trump moves to roll back protections for plants, animals under Endangered Species Act, See Also The New York Times – “Twenty states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on Wednesday over what they called the most severe…

The New York Times: “The Department of Justice sent threatening letters to at least 30 top election officials across the country, expanding its efforts to gain access to private voter data and election records.

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Follow up to AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, See Also The New Yorker & no paywall: Anthropic is trying to “destructively scan all the books in the world.”

Bloomberg BusinessWeek gift article: “America’s legal system is already grappling with cases where chatbots acted as lawyers and witnesses, generated the evidence, or helped plan a mass shooting…Artificial intelligence, in the form of large language model…