If you’re an aspiring lawyer in California, it probably did: the State Bar recently admitted that some of the multiple-choice questions in their recent bar exam were written with AI assistance. A “speechless” Mary Basick, assistant dean at UC Irvine Law School, told the L.A. Times that several students had complained that the questions seemed AI-generated. “I defended the bar,” she said. “‘No way! They wouldn’t do that!’”
Tim Pool, a conservative podcaster known for spreading covid-19 misinformation, interviewing Kanye West in his Nazi era, and inadvertently being part of a Kremlin-financed scheme to infiltrate right-wing media. (Pool has denied involvement.) While he wasn’t at the White House’s recent Podcast Row event targeted at right-wing content creators, Pool has a bigger opportunity, as The Washington Post’s Dan Diamond reported yesterday:
It used to be easy to kill a conspiracy theory. But the internet has made them immortal — and politically powerful.
In a last-minute reprieve, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that they were able to save their contract with Amazon Web Services, keeping their websites alive on AWS’s cloud servers. The contract had been caught in widespread federal IT budget cuts, and had it not been for massive public outcry, NOAA’s research and online datasets – used for critical services like weather forecasting and storm tracking – would have become inaccessible to the public.
