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Here is the kitchen sink for February 7, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

Law School Now Requires Students To Get Artificial Intelligence Certification: Of course, the first school to do it is Case Western Reserve University School of Law – duh! 🤣 Seriously, though, kudos to them! Joe Patrice discusses it here on Above the Law.

93% of IT leaders will implement AI agents in the next two years: That’s according to a survey from MuleSoft and Deloitte Digital. Even more impressive, nearly half have already done so.

“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews: When searching for “how do you turn off [adjective] Google AI results,” a variety of curse word adjectives reliably disabled the AI Overviews. That’s pretty “f-ing” smart! 😉

AI in Journalism: Enhancing Newsrooms or Undermining Integrity?: As Rob Robinson reports, according to a Reuters Institute’s recent report, an overwhelming 87% of surveyed newsrooms report being fully or somewhat transformed by generative AI. There are times it can come in pretty handy, like this AI-aided write-up I did on DeepSeek last week.

Breaking the AI Black Box: How DeepSeek’s Deep-Think Forced OpenAI’s Hand: Speaking of DeepSeek, Ralph Losey discusses several of its breakthroughs here on the EDRM blog. Of course, it’s hard to talk breakthroughs when there are so many security concerns (like the ones I covered here and here), but this hopefully inspires someone to do the same thing – safely.

Irony alert: Anthropic says applicants shouldn’t use LLMs: Yes, it is irony that Anthropic doesn’t want its applicants to use GenAI to fill out its applications, but I get it. You need to confirm they have good communication skills without AI. That doesn’t preclude them from leveraging AI to communicate in their job, but someone with good communication skills is needed to ensure the final content product is clear and meets the communication goals.

Google Removes Its Vow Not to Use AI for Weapons: Google’s AI policy no longer includes a vow that the company will not pursue AI applications involving weapons, surveillance, technologies that “cause or are likely to cause overall harm”. Google talks about its policy changes in this blog post. Looks like they want to join Microsoft, Amazon and OpenAI in doing defense stuff. Money talks! 🤑

EU Cracks Down on AI Abuses as Landmark Law Takes Effect: The European Union’s AI Act is now in effect. Rob Robinson recaps detailed guidelines outlining exactly what kinds of AI systems will be banned issued by the European Commission.

The Wait May Be Over: Government AI Products Could Give Courts the Green Light: Judge Scott Schlegel discusses “Recent announcements by Microsoft and OpenAI have ushered in government-specific AI products—Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC and ChatGPT Gov—that promise to transform how courts and other institutions handle sensitive data and streamline operations.” Equally notable is that he’s a judge with his own website of regular legal tech topics titled [sch]Legal Tech! See what he did there? 🤣

Hugging Face clones OpenAI’s Deep Research in 24 hours: In ‘yo face, OpenAI! 🤣 No, they didn’t actually say that. But Hugging Face researchers did release an open source AI research agent called “Open Deep Research,” created by an in-house team as a challenge 24 hours after the launch of OpenAI’s Deep Research feature, which can autonomously browse the web and create research reports. Pretty impressive!

Not Gouda-nough: Google removes AI-generated cheese error from Super Bowl ad: Google’s writing assistant for “a description of Smoked Gouda that would appeal to cheese lovers” notes that Gouda is “one of the most popular cheeses in the world, accounting for 50 to 60 percent of the world’s cheese consumption.” Yeah, that’s the ticket! 😉

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for February 7, 2025! Back next week with another edition!

So, what do you think? Which story is your favorite one? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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