A firm grasp of the obvious?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/america-now-ally-russia/689066/
America Is Now an Ally of Russia
In the past week, the president of the United States has conclusively turned America into an ally of the Russian Federation.
Donald Trump has now abandoned pretense and is openly aiding the Kremlin in its war against a friend and partner of the U.S. The American commander in chief has abandoned the Western order, the most successful—and powerful—security arrangement in human history. To judge from the available evidence, he has not done so out of a cold calculation of the national interest. Instead, he has based his decisions on his own interests; his open admiration for Russia’s dictator; his resentment of Ukraine’s democratically elected president; and quite possibly other factors that so far have remained obscured from the American public.
Interesting article.
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/ai-and-the-knowledge-problem-in-higher-ed/
AI and the Knowledge Problem in Higher Ed
A familiar bit of bureaucratic reasoning, described as “politician’s logic” in the British comedy Yes, Prime Minister, goes something like this: Something must be done. This is something. Therefore, we must do it.
I suspect some of the rush to create AI courses at colleges and universities reflects this sort of thinking. Universities recognize that artificial intelligence is changing the workplace. They want graduates to be prepared for those changes. Creating a course, or perhaps a sequence of courses, seems like an obvious response.
But it isn’t clear that creating an AI course will actually address the problem.
AI is already changing accounting, marketing, finance, nursing, engineering, economics, and dozens of other fields. Universities are understandably concerned about preparing students to use these tools. But what does it mean to promise graduates a working knowledge of AI? And who is qualified to teach it?
Good news and bad news.
https://www.bespacific.com/uneven-intelligence-of-ai-in-comparative-constitutional-law/
The (Currently) Uneven Intelligence of AI in Comparative Constitutional Law
Chilton, Adam, Langlois, Arthur, Dittmer, Jan-Ulrich; Versteeg, Mila: The (Currently) Uneven Intelligence of AI in Comparative Constitutional Law: From Years of Research to a Single Prompt?, VerfBlog, 2026/10/14, https://verfassungsblog.de/the-currently-uneven-intelligence-of-ai-in-comparative-constitutional-law/, DOI: 10.59704/a3baf260ef374567.
This potential has inspired numerous projects exploring how AI could help scholarship on constitutional law. For example, there is research using AI to interpret constitutions, apply constitutional principles, and predict court rulings. Even the question of whether AI could improve the process of constitution-making has been studied. AI’s potential is particularly significant for comparative constitutional research. Systematically comparing legal systems requires locating sources from different jurisdictions, which are often difficult to access and only available in local languages. The creation of comparative legal datasets has thus involved considerable personnel, time, and financial resources. AI can overcome many of these obstacles. AI models can search for and translate foreign-language sources, filter them, and convert the filtered information into a dataset. In doing so, AI offers the prospect of datasets — which previously required years of research and the efforts of numerous experts and research assistants to compile — being just a prompt away. However, whether AI models can generate comparative law datasets that are qualitatively comparable to human-coded datasets has not yet been addressed (although Guha et al provide an example for a broader legal benchmarking exercise).5) We therefore conducted our own benchmarking study.6) We found evidence suggesting that recent AI models may be able to code simple factual data, but they are likely unreliable substitutes for expert human coders when conceptual or interpretive judgment is required.
Attacks on Ukrainian logistics in other countries.
Attempted arson at Lithuanian firm storing Starlink equipment, PM blames Russia
“Just after midnight last night, there was another incident – an attempt was made to set fire to a Lithuanian company where Starlink communications equipment is stored. The authorities had warned the company about possible attacks, security had been stepped up, and the attempt failed,” Sinkevičius said in a post on Facebook.
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