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powering @news.bot.suffolklitlab.org (another bot of mine).
Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
News-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹ by legal-type folks² with URLs that look like they point to news articles,³ sorted by popularity.
- Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.
- Witnesses to fatal Houston ICE shooting challenge agency's account, lawyer says 🔥Three men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by a U.S. agent in Houston on Tuesday have challenged the explanation offered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a lawyer for two o...
- Trump moved to cut funding for ICE body cameras and reduced oversight Administration opposed efforts last year to expand use of cameras by immigration agents and cut oversight staffing ...
- Republicans ask WNBA to protect Caitlin Clark from possible ‘racially motivated’ attacks Eleven Republican politicians have written to the WNBA asking the league to protect Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark from ‘multiple attacks’ on court ...
- Plan to ease rules on mailing guns could help company Trump Jr. has stake in President Donald Trump’s eldest son is a key player in GrabAGun, a company that hopes to dominate internet firearms sales.
Blog-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁴ by legal-type folks⁵ with URLs that look like they point to blogs/newsletters,⁶ sorted by popularity.
- NEWS: ICE Admits Killing Wrong Man as Narrative Falls Apart, Trump Purges Key Election Officials, Trump Boycotts Bipartisan Housing Bill 🔥🔥Good morning, everyone.
- An American Life Cut Short 🔥🔥ICE ended Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s American Dream.
- NEWS: Trump Leaves Instructions if he Dies, ICE Mocked Immigrant After Killing Him, Endangered Species Protections Rolled Back 🔥Happy Friday night, everyone.
- July 10, 2026 🔥Presumably afraid of investigations into his actions, President Donald J.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 416. 7/10/26 🔥… Trump has not had any press or public events since returning from the NATO summit which he concluded by announcing that “the Islamic Republic of Japan just fired 10 missiles at us,” and has no event...
AI & The Law Links
A collection of links shared recently⁷ on Bluesky that look like they talk about AI & the law,⁸ sorted by popularity.
- Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥More young girls sue X over Grok CSAM; X accused of shielding child predators.
- Class action suit against AI makers over deepfake child sexual abuse material expands† 🔥New plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Elon Musk's SpaceXAI and Stability AI say the companies' AI tools were used to make sexually explicit images of them as children.
- AI software that generates ‘rage bait’ developed by Germany’s far-right AfD† 🔥Alternita platform uses Google Gemini, OpenAI and Claude to create provocative social media posts ...
- University of Chicago Law to ban phones, laptops in classroom for first-year students in new AI plan† University of Chicago Law School announced it will ban phones and laptops in the classroom for first-year students in its new AI strategy.
- Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets (Gift Article) The two companies struck a deal in 2024 to offer A.I. services on Apple devices, but their partnership has soured.
Law Review-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers in law journals or the like,¹⁰ sorted by popularity.
- One Decade, One Map: State Constitutional Limits on Re-Redistricting† 🔥In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court closed the federal courthouse doors to claims of partisan gerrymandering, effectively permitting states to engage in wh ...
- "Abuse of Speechifying": Crafting the Politics/Law Divide in the Supreme Court's First Decade† What actions are too "political" for a Supreme Court justice? This question has been the subject of intense debate since the beginning of the republic ...
AI Paper-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹¹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers on AI,¹² sorted by popularity. Wondering why this section is on a site about the law? Well, I teach a course on AI & the Law, and it turns out that understanding this stuff is super important to figuring out what the law might have to say. So, I figured since I was sharing lists, I might as well share this one too.
- The GDN-CC Dataset: Automatic Corpus Clarification for AI-enhanced Democratic Citizen Consultations† 🔥🔥🔥LLMs are ubiquitous in modern NLP, and while their applicability extends to texts produced for democratic activities such as online deliberations or large-scale citizen consultations, ethical question...
- LaViDa-R1: Advancing Reasoning for Unified Multimodal Diffusion Language Models† 🔥🔥🔥ArXiv link for LaViDa-R1: Advancing Reasoning for Unified Multimodal Diffusion Language Models ...
- Non-contact, Real-time, Heart-rate Measurement using Image Processing with Commodity Cameras and AI Agents† 🔥ArXiv link for Non-contact, Real-time, Heart-rate Measurement using Image Processing with Commodity Cameras and AI Agents ...
- Auditing of Unlearning Algorithms† 🔥ArXiv link for Auditing of Unlearning Algorithms ...
- Operationalizing Individual Fairness via Gradient Descent and Bradley-Terry Models† 🔥ArXiv link for Operationalizing Individual Fairness via Gradient Descent and Bradley-Terry Models ...
- RubriQ : Synthèse de circuits quantiques pilotée par LLM avec des récompenses de rubrique programmatiques† 🔥
- Oyster-II: Reinforcement Learning for Constructive Safety Alignment in Large Language Models 🔥Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse applications, yet ensuring their simultaneous safety, helpfulness, and trustworthiness remains a persistent challenge. Conventional refusal-oriented alignment strategies mitigate harmful content generation but systematically fail to serve legitimate user needs, often withholding information that could safely and constructively address the underlying intent of sensitive queries. Building upon the constructive safety paradigm pioneered by Oyster-I, which moves beyond blanket refusal toward thoughtful, response-oriented safety alignment, we identify two critical limitations of its Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)-based scheme: insufficient safety generalization to out-of-distribution scenarios and a phenomenon we term safety chain-of-thought (CoT) over-generalization, wherein safety-oriented reasoning patterns are excessively applied to benign queries, degrading helpfulness and user experience. To address these limitations, we propose Oyster-II, a reinforcement learning (RL)-based constructive safety alignment framework that adopts a Zero-RL paradigm combined with a multi-stage reinforcement learning strategy.Evaluated across extensive benchmarks, Oyster-II comprehensively surpasses both Qwen3-14B and its predecessor Oyster-I on safety dimensions, achieving cross-scale performance comparable to Qwen3-Max and Qwen3.5-397B.
- LLM-powered reasoning in agent-based modeling† 🔥Agent-based modeling (ABM) has the capability to model millions of individuals and their interactions, which is useful for policy making. However, ABMs have traditionally relied on static prior, which prevents the models from adapting to real-time changes. Our research provides a novel approach to …
- The Harness Effect: How Orchestration Design Sets the Token Economics of Enterprise Agentic AI 🔥Agentic AI development today runs on token maxing: buying capability with tokens -- longer reasoning traces, more turns, wider tool payloads, bigger replayed contexts -- so tokens per task grow faster than task value. Falling per-token prices mask the pattern; total spend rises anyway. We argue the decisive lever against token maxing is the harness: the orchestration layer that assembles context, exposes tools, sequences turns, delegates work, and carries enterprise observability and governance. We isolate it with a controlled swap: 22 locked evaluation tasks, six foundation models (Claude Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 3.1, Gemini Flash 3.5, Qwen 3.6, GLM 5.1, Palmyra X6), changing only the orchestration layer -- a frozen conventional production loop versus the Writer Agent Harness. Holding models constant, the harness cuts blended cost per task 41% ($0.21->$0.12), median wall-clock 44% (48s->27s), and tokens per task 38% (14.2k->8.8k), with task-completion quality at parity (0.78->0.81, directional at this sample size). Efficiency is model-invariant -- every model gets cheaper (33-61%) -- while quality gains are capability-dependent: a model's gain correlates almost perfectly with its baseline strength (r=0.99, n=6), a phenomenon we term harness leverage. Quality per dollar rises 82%; task-completions per million tokens rise from 54.9 to 92.0. On this workload the orchestration layer moved cost per task more than the full spread of the model menu did. We formalize token economics at the orchestration layer (including effective input price under prompt caching), detail the six mechanism families behind the effect -- cache-shape discipline to failure-spend governance -- compare six widely used agent systems on the same axes, and argue the harness is the one component whose efficiency multiplies across every model an organization runs -- present and future.
The High Score
The 20 accounts most reposted by @icymilaw.org over the past week¹³ (the list below is updated every Sunday). High Score, get it? One Score = 20, as in, "four score and seven years ago." ;)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Heba Gowayed هبة جويد (@hebagowayed.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jamal Greene (@jamalgreene.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. SkySkull (@drskyskull.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
† This link was also in yesterday's digest. ¹ Approx. 1 day lookback. ² Attorneys, law profs, et al. ³ News-like links (law) ⁴ Supra note 1. ⁵ Supra note 2. ⁶ Blog-like links (law) ⁷ Approx. 3.5 days lookback. ⁸ AI & the Law ⁹ Approx. 1 week lookback. ¹⁰ Law Review-like ¹¹ Supra note 9. ¹² AI Papers et al. ¹³ High Score
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