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GPT-4o: The Amsterdam Riots of 7 and 8 November 2024—The Dutch government did not fail outright, but the absence of proactive national coordination on such a politically charged date...
...especially when involving Israeli interests, Jewish communities, and Middle Eastern tensions — points to a gap in anticipatory governance.
The grievances of young men are real and cannot be ignored, lest they be permanently ceded to the forces of demagoguery and reaction.
At the same time, validating their misdirected anger and the toxic ideologies that exploit it will only deepen the dangerous fractures in our society.
Gemini provides a detailed and sober analysis of the rhetoric employed by Donald Trump and his key political allies, placing it in direct comparison with the language of Nazi Germany.
The evidence demonstrates that the parallels are not fleeting, superficial, or hyperbolic. They are consistent, strategic, and functional.
Each AI breakthrough carries not just financial opportunity but environmental and ethical cost. Unregulated AI is unsustainable AI.
AI as both a tool for environmental resilience (e.g., smart agriculture, climate modeling, biodiversity monitoring) and a contributor to ecological degradation (e.g., high carbon emissions, e-waste).
Tao’s conversation with Lex Fridman reveals more than the inner workings of mathematics—it illustrates how deep theoretical inquiry can illuminate both the power and the limits of abstraction.
Ultimately, the future of AI — and of knowledge — will depend on those who, like Tao, can see across disciplines and dare to model what we cannot yet fully grasp.
The UK’s most comprehensive study to date on the integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI) into the film, television, and video game industries.
The report identifies copyright as the dominant issue, especially in light of AI models being trained on massive datasets of copyrighted content without permission or compensation.
Amidst this landscape of executive ambition and policy turmoil, the judiciary has acted as a critical counterweight, blocking or modifying administration initiatives that overstep legal boundaries.
This very resistance, however, has rendered the judiciary a target, facing potential threats to its independence and operational capacity.
The future of U.S. higher education—especially under a second Trump administration—will likely feature reduced federal support, tightened student aid, and a shift toward vocational training...
...over liberal arts and graduate education. Institutions, students, and innovators alike must prepare for a leaner, more market-driven academic landscape.
In June 2025, Blackstone Inc., the world’s largest alternative asset manager, announced a staggering commitment to invest $500 billion in Europe over the next decade.
Its ripple effects intersect directly with Europe’s AI ambitions and present specific opportunities—and risks—for AI startups and scholarly publishers.
The Cooper et al. (2025) paper provides a significant, nuanced contribution by quantifying memorization of copyrighted books in open-weight LLMs using a probabilistic extraction method. However...
(...) the full picture of memorization, particularly its susceptibility to specific prompting and system configurations, warrants further exploration.
GPT-4o: In sum, “The Economic Importance of Fair Use for the Development of Generative Artificial Intelligence” is a technically polished but fundamentally flawed advocacy paper.
It presents a lopsided view of the AI economy, wrapped in the rhetoric of innovation and competitiveness, while concealing its own assumptions, omissions, and vested interests.