Trump defunding of NPR and PBS blocked by judge, but damage is already done
Judge invalidates Trump executive order, but Congress also cut off all funding.
Birthright citizenship live blog for Wednesday, April 1
On Wednesday, April 1, we will be live blogging as the court hears argument in Trump v. Barbara, on the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. […]The postBirthright citizenship live blog for Wednesday, April 1appeared first...
Retrospective on PAT x ICML 2026 AI Paper Assistant Program
Frege in the Flesh: Biolinguistics and the Neural Enforcement of Syntactic Structures
arXiv:2604.00291v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biolinguistics is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the biological foundations, evolution, and genetic basis of human language. It treats language as an innate biological organ or faculty of the mind, rather than a cultural tool,...
No Third Term: Rejecting the Nonconsecutive Loophole – Wisconsin Law Review – UW–Madison
The text of the Twenty-Second Amendment seems clear that a president cannot be elected to a third term: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.” This Essay looks further to the history surrounding...
BIAS, FAIRNESS, AND INCLUSIVITY IN GENERATIVE AI SYSTEMS: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF ALGORITHMIC BIAS, REPRESENTATION GAPS, AND THE CHALLENGES OF ENSURING EQUITY IN AI-GENERATED OUTPUTS
Generative AI systems such as large language models (LLMs), image synthesizers, and multimodal frameworks have transformed content creation while also exposing and amplifying systemic biases that undermine fairness and inclusivity. This study critically examines algorithmic bias in model outputs, representation...
Volume 110 Headnotes: Spring Issue - Minnesota Law Review
No More IEEPA Tariffs? The Legal Bases of an Alternative Regime By Lawrence J. Liu Full essay here. lawreview - Minnesota Law Review
The key arguments in the birthright citizenship case
On April 1, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in one of the highest-profile cases of the 2025-26 term – and indeed, one of the biggest cases in several […]The postThe key arguments in the birthright citizenship caseappeared first...
When the Supreme Court let a president get away with redefining birthright citizenship
The president finds the long-settled meaning of the citizenship clause to be an intolerable obstacle to his agenda. The reason? Each year it would make U.S. citizens of tens of […]The postWhen the Supreme Court let a president get away...
Prominent Scientists, Faith Leaders, Policymakers and Artists Call for a Prohibition on Superintelligence, as Poll Shows Americans Don’t Want It
Initial signatories include AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, leading media voices Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck, Obama's National Security Advisor Susan Rice, business trailblazers Steve Wozniak and Richard Branson, five Nobel Laureates, former Irish President Mary Robinson, actors...
Statement: Head of US Policy on the White House AI legislative recommendations
The White House published it’s long-awaited AI legislative recommendations on Friday, and it still includes a call for Congress to […]
David Sacks is done as AI czar — here’s what he’s doing instead
Sacks will be much further from the power center in Washington than since the outset of this second Trump administration.
Compression Method Matters: Benchmark-Dependent Output Dynamics in LLM Prompt Compression
arXiv:2603.23527v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompt compression is often evaluated by input-token reduction, but its real deployment impact depends on how compression changes output length and total inference cost. We present a controlled replication and extension study of benchmark-dependent output...
MDKeyChunker: Single-Call LLM Enrichment with Rolling Keys and Key-Based Restructuring for High-Accuracy RAG
arXiv:2603.23533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: RAG pipelines typically rely on fixed-size chunking, which ignores document structure, fragments semantic units across boundaries, and requires multiple LLM calls per chunk for metadata extraction. We present MDKeyChunker, a three-stage pipeline for Markdown documents...
Infrequent Child-Directed Speech Is Bursty and May Draw Infant Vocalizations
arXiv:2603.23797v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Children in many parts of the world hear relatively little speech directed to them, yet still reach major language development milestones. What differs about the speech input that infants learn from when directed input is...
Causal Reconstruction of Sentiment Signals from Sparse News Data
arXiv:2603.23568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sentiment signals derived from sparse news are commonly used in financial analysis and technology monitoring, yet transforming raw article-level observations into reliable temporal series remains a largely unsolved engineering problem. Rather than treating this as...
StateLinFormer: Stateful Training Enhancing Long-term Memory in Navigation
arXiv:2603.23571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective navigation intelligence relies on long-term memory to support both immediate generalization and sustained adaptation. However, existing approaches face a dilemma: modular systems rely on explicit mapping but lack flexibility, while Transformer-based end-to-end models are...
Why the Maximum Second Derivative of Activations Matters for Adversarial Robustness
arXiv:2603.23860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work investigates the critical role of activation function curvature -- quantified by the maximum second derivative $\max|\sigma''|$ -- in adversarial robustness. Using the Recursive Curvature-Tunable Activation Family (RCT-AF), which enables precise control over curvature...
Birthright citizenship: more on Pete Patterson’s claims
Attorney Pete Patterson’s latest post on birthright citizenship repeats the biggest mistakes of his original post and also makes some new mistakes, chasing irrelevances and mangling the key legal issues. […]The postBirthright citizenship: more on Pete Patterson’s claimsappeared first onSCOTUSblog.
Describe-Then-Act: Proactive Agent Steering via Distilled Language-Action World Models
arXiv:2603.23149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying safety-critical agents requires anticipating the consequences of actions before they are executed. While world models offer a paradigm for this proactive foresight, current approaches relying on visual simulation incur prohibitive latencies, often exceeding several...
Intelligence Inertia: Physical Principles and Applications
arXiv:2603.22347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Landauer's principle establishes the fundamental thermodynamic floor for information erasure and Fisher Information provides a metric for local curvature in parameter space, these classical frameworks function effectively only as approximations within regimes of sparse...
Graph-Aware Late Chunking for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Biomedical Literature
arXiv:2603.22633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for biomedical literature are typically evaluated using ranking metrics like Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR), which measure how well the system identifies the single most relevant chunk. We argue that for full-text...
Session Risk Memory (SRM): Temporal Authorization for Deterministic Pre-Execution Safety Gates
arXiv:2603.22350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deterministic pre-execution safety gates evaluate whether individual agent actions are compatible with their assigned roles. While effective at per-action authorization, these systems are structurally blind to distributed attacks that decompose harmful intent across multiple individually-compliant...
LLM-guided headline rewriting for clickability enhancement without clickbait
arXiv:2603.22459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enhancing reader engagement while preserving informational fidelity is a central challenge in controllable text generation for news media. Optimizing news headlines for reader engagement is often conflated with clickbait, resulting in exaggerated or misleading phrasing...
DariMis: Harm-Aware Modeling for Dari Misinformation Detection on YouTube
arXiv:2603.22977v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dari, the primary language of Afghanistan, is spoken by tens of millions of people yet remains largely absent from the misinformation detection literature. We address this gap with DariMis, the first manually annotated dataset of...
Beyond Hard Constraints: Budget-Conditioned Reachability For Safe Offline Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2603.22292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequential decision making using Markov Decision Process underpins many realworld applications. Both model-based and model free methods have achieved strong results in these settings. However, real-world tasks must balance reward maximization with safety constraints, often...
CN-Buzz2Portfolio: A Chinese-Market Dataset and Benchmark for LLM-Based Macro and Sector Asset Allocation from Daily Trending Financial News
arXiv:2603.22305v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly transitioning from static Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks including sentiment analysis and event extraction to acting as dynamic decision-making agents in complex financial environments. However, the evolution of LLMs...
The 14th Amendment does not codify English principles of subjectship: A brief reply to the Amar brothers
Professors Akhil and Vikram Amar have responded to my recent post arguing that the 14th Amendment does not grant automatic citizenship to the children of temporary visitors to the United […]The postThe 14th Amendment does not codify English principles of...
Court appears likely to side with Trump administration on rights of asylum seekers
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to uphold the federal government’s policy of systematically turning back asylum seekers before they can reach the U.S. border with Mexico. During roughly […]The postCourt appears likely to side with Trump administration on...
Temporary Protected Status and the Supreme Court: an explainer
The Supreme Court announced last week that it will hear argument in late April on the Trump administration’s effort to remove protected immigration status from Syrian and Haitian nationals. Its […]The postTemporary Protected Status and the Supreme Court: an explainerappeared...