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Social media platforms spread hate music in India despite policy violations, new report says
The report, “Profiting From Hate Music,” documents what researchers describe as the first comprehensive mapping of hate music across India's digital landscape.
3 takeaways from our new poll: From the Politics Desk
Plus, Trump keeps throwing wrenches in the GOP’s agenda.
Hungarian MPs approve PM limits to block potential return of Orban
The reform is one of the first introduced by PM Peter Magyar as he seeks to return Hungary to the EU mainstream.
Thanks For Making Me 12th Highest on Substack’s List Of “Rising” Business- and Economics-Related Newsletters
A big thank you to those of you who upgraded to paid subscriptions to read my two most recent paid memos: https://richardkatz.substack.com/publish/posts/detail/201675746?referrer=%2Fpublish%2Fposts%2Fpublished and https://richardkatz.substack.com/publish/posts/detail/201774434?referrer=%2Fpublish%2Fposts%2Fpublished As a result, total paid subs rose by 5.6% over the past seven days. And that put me at 12th on Substack’s list of “rising” newsletters in business and economics. “Rising” means those with the biggest percentage increase in revenue from subs over a short period of time. Of course, as is often the case with the issues I discuss, this is a good-news/not-so-good-news story. The good news is a rush of new subs. The caveat is that it’s easier to get a big percentage increase when the base is relatively small. I have enough paid subs to be in the initial rank of Substack’s “best seller list,” but a way to go before enough of the 12,000 subs to Japan Economy Watch are paid subs. For most hybrid newsletters—a combination of free and paid posts—2-7% of the total subs are paid. 5% is my initial goal. If you gain insight from reading this blog, please join those who’ve already upgraded; help me reach 5%—and beyond. Subscribe
From The Sports Desk: One day after peace agreement, Iran takes field for World Cup
Iran will play New Zealand tonight in Southern California. Earlier in the day, Lamine Yamal and Spain play Cape Verde, and Mo Salah and Egypt take on Belgium.
Stifel cuts Caesars Entertainment stock rating on takeover view
Stifel cuts Caesars Entertainment stock rating on takeover view
Rainn Wilson thinks 'The Office' couldn't be made today because it was too 'politically incorrect'
Rainn Wilson is calling out a 'bias in the media' toward 'liberal policies' for his belief that 'The Office' could not be made today, saying it would be 'too hard to be as politically incorrect as the show was.'
Previewing a mammoth week: Texas Tech vs. Big 12, CFP expansion meeting and Senate bill markup
The future of major college sports will begin to take shape over a mammoth four-day stretch beginning June 15.
Sen. James Lankford says Congress should ratify any deal Trump makes with Iran
The Oklahoma senator’s comments come as President Donald Trump has signaled that the U.S. and Iran are close to working out a deal to end the war.
Poll: Democrats maintain an edge in the fight for Congress as Trump gets poor marks
Democrats have a 5-point advantage in a new NBC News poll as Trump’s approval rating sinks to a second-term low among registered voters.
Poll: Young and old Americans are starkly divided on national pride and confidence in government
The latest NBC News poll tested Americans’ feelings about broad cultural issues shaping politics on the eve of the country’s 250th birthday.
Poll: America at 250 is riven with doubt and pessimism — but with glimmers of hope
National pride, faith in major institutions and belief in the “American Dream” declined in new NBC News polling.
Mercury continue homestand, including a rematch with defending champs
The Phoenix Mercury will end this round of Commissioner's Cup play at home, welcoming the Las Vegas Aces for another big matchup on June 17.
Iranian football legend Azizi puts peace above politics amid World Cup tensions
Iranian football legend Khodadad Azizi, who played in the first World Cup meeting between Iran and the United States in 1998, has told AFP that football should promote "peace" and remain separate from politics.Azizi, 54, was speaking as Iran prepare to play their first match at the World Cup co-hosted by the United States, the country they have been at war with since February.Nicknamed Team Melli, Iran will open their World Cup campaign against New Zealand in Los Angeles on Monday, hoping to reach the knockout stage for the first time in their history.
6 said killed in Gaza strikes as Hamas health ministry says war toll surpasses 73,000
Terror group says it responded to 15-point Board of Peace blueprint aiming to push ceasefire to next stage, although sources say disagreements remain over disarmament issue
As El Niño develops, climate scientists are losing the tools to study it
Post readers on El Niño, ACA enrollment fraud, a rail merger and more.
Your blood pressure reading contains a hidden number — and here’s why it matters
Pulse pressure, which can indicate how stiff your blood vessels are, provides a window into heart and brain health.
Knicks' Jalen Brunson named NBA Finals MVP
Jalen Brunson's 45-point masterpiece propelled the New York Knicks to their first NBA title in 53 years, but his biggest contribution to ending the drought may have come two years ago.Brunson, who won two national collegiate titles with Villanova but was a second-round pick by the Dallas Mavericks in the 2018 NBA draft, said he still hadn't grasped the enormity of the Knicks' achievement or his own.
New York's victorious Knicks leave World Cup in the cold
The World Cup carnival arrived in New York on Saturday, but it was drowned out by the city's elation after the hometown Knicks broke a 53-year curse to win the NBA Finals.- No 'big buzz' - In an industrial section of Brooklyn, the manager of an indoor five-a-side arena said ahead of the Knicks win that "obviously the Knicks, as they should, are over-shining" the World Cup.
Curacao can shock Germany on World Cup debut, says Advocaat
Curacao coach Dick Advocaat believes the tiny Caribbean island can "steal some points" from four-time winners Germany on their tournament debut on Sunday."I think we will have to steal some points, but in a legitimate way.
Good News: NBA player connects with family of 2 young brothers facing health battles
Los Angeles Lakers guard Marcus Smart shared a moment of connection on the court with two young brothers, Kenji and Kobe, after their family was surprised with a trip to a game earlier this season. NBC News' José Díaz-Balart has more on the special moment and what Marcus is doing to raise awareness for the need for more blood stem cell donors.
Anna Faris credits podcast with helping her through Chris Pratt divorce
Anna Faris credited a surprising project with helping her through her 2017 divorce from Chris Pratt.
Oval Office octagon: How Trump turned combat sports into a political weapon
MMA event reflects career deeply intertwined with professional fighting, but risks political fallout.
Oval Office octagon: How Trump turned combat sports into a political weapon
MMA event reflects career deeply intertwined with professional fighting, but risks political fallout.
3 Dietitians Share What to Eat Before Every Type of Workout
Learn what to eat before strength training, running, HIIT, and yoga, plus expert tips on when to fuel for better performance.
Trump administration must re-install exhibits on slavery, climate change and other topics at national parks, judge rules
President Donald Trump last year directed the Interior Department to make changes to parks, monuments and memorials to address any “false revision of history.”
Runoffs provide Trump’s next big GOP tests: From the Politics Desk
Plus, deal or no deal with Iran?
Yankees Mailbag: Mason Miller’s availability and Volpe’s struggles
The mailbag looks at the unlikely chance of landing an ace reliever.
Over 400 Arch Linux AUR Packages Hijacked to Deploy Infostealer and eBPF Rootkit
Attackers hijacked 400+ Arch Linux AUR packages to run a Rust credential stealer, with optional eBPF rootkit support on root systems.
Cuba opens more sectors to private business
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Friday announced greater freedoms for small businesses across the country, as the communist government takes steps to liberalize the island's economy in the face o...
Alarm as Ebola spreads into new areas of DR Congo
Cases are being identified in new health zones on a near-daily basis, warns WHO's head of epidemiology.
From The Sports Desk: Mexico wins opener, U.S. starts its World Cup journey tonight
The U.S. men’s national team and its ‘Golden Generation’ play Paraguay in Los Angeles today. Plus, France’s Kylian Mbappé is today’s World Cup spotlight.
America Is Finally Getting Better Sunscreen. Dermatologists Are Thrilled.
The FDA just approved the first sunscreen filter in more than two decades. Here's why experts are excited.
Iraq’s paramilitary groups say they will disarm. Will that ever happen?
Powerful Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr among those who say their groups will integrate into the state.
Pope Leo’s visit lays bare Spain’s tangled politics of faith and migration
The American pope's message underlines the rift between his Catholicism and that of Spain's far right.
South Korea’s ex-President Yoon gets 30 years over drone operation
Seoul court sentences former leader for sending military drones into North Korea.
Free military health services available in Henderson through June 21
U.S. military members provide medical, dental and mental health care at no cost as part of training mission.
Authorities investigate giant ‘8647’ markings on National Mall
A judge ruled this month that the numbers on their own, which the Trump administration has called a threat against the president, constitute free speech.
How the Rangers Got Back to .500
The Texas Rangers are no longer a losing team after beating the Kansas City Royals on Thursday.
A Nebraska immigration raid shut businesses down a year ago. The fallout is ongoing, officials say.
Local businesses have taken a hit as families and workers grapple with the effects of the raid last June on the Glenn Valley Foods meatpacking plant, community members said.
When the World Cup and war collide: From the Politics Desk
Plus, the House Republicans who bucked Trump on the Epstein files meet their political fates.
CDC, Florida health officials at odds over hantavirus cruise ship passenger’s quarantine
One of the 18 passengers from the cruise ship MV Hondius says she feels like she’s being “held hostage” and just wants to go home.
APSU formalizes partnership with University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Political Science
Austin Peay State University (APSU) has formalized a significant new international partnership with the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Belgrade (FPN), one of Serbia's most distinguished university faculties and home to a 21-year-old Center for American Studies.
Middle TN hemp business to close and relocate out-of-state due to new state regulations taking effect in summer 2026
“Sadly, these laws feel like they were designed to stamp out small, family-owned businesses like ours,” the business said.
Leadership vacuum plaguing U.S. health agencies
A wave of firings and resignations at the highest levels of the CDC and the FDA suggests the Trump administration may be pivoting away from facets of the "Make America Healthy Again" movement. NBC News' Aria Bendix reports.
Controversial Battle Ground business owners buy community’s only newspaper
Brothers Camden and Mac Spiller announced Wednesday they have purchased the Battle Ground Reflector.
Republicans who pushed Epstein files release see political careers upended by Trump
Only one of the four House Republicans behind the Epstein files law will return to Congress next year. “Everybody’s paying a price for it,” Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said.
From The Sports Desk: The World Cup is finally here
Co-hosts Mexico take on South Africa as the 2026 World Cup gets underway.
Congo says number of confirmed Ebola cases rises to 676
The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Democratic Republic of Congo has increased to 676, including 136 deaths, government data showed on Thursday.
Halo: Campaign Evolved Stumbles on Unreal Engine 5, as RTX 5090 Barely Cracks 100 FPS at 1440p Ultra
Halo Campaign Evolved UE5 remake struggles to hit high FPS on RTX 5090 at 1440p, proving optimization worries valid.
Trump’s UFC matches are unprecedented, but sports at the White House aren’t
From “Hoover-ball” to horseshoes, sports have long been a part of the White House, although there has never been anything like the live UFC event to be held Sunday.
The inflation surge is hitting businesses, too
The Producer Price Index, which tracks costs businesses pay, rose at its fastest rate since 2022, adding to worries that higher energy costs tied to the war with Iran are mounting.
JD Vance’s chief of staff Jacob Reses to leave Trump administration
Jacob Reses, who has been with Vance since his successful 2022 Senate campaign in Ohio, is expected to remain close to the vice president’s team.
Britain’s defence minister Healey quits over defence spending
This is a breaking news story.
An ancient whale graveyard in the Indian Ocean teems with life
Located up to 23,000 feet below the surface of the southeastern Indian Ocean, the site spans the largest area and is so far the deepest and oldest found.
'Resilient' Knicks on brink of NBA title after record rally
OG Anunoby's game-clinching tip-in to put New York on the brink of an NBA title will go down as one of the greatest plays in Knicks history, coach Mike Brown said."The tip, how he had to control it and tip it in -- that has to be the most iconic shot in the history of New York basketball."
Medicare Advantage plans denied prior authorization requests at unusually high rates, HHS report finds
UnitedHealthcare, CVS Health and Humana had the highest denial rates for long-term care requests, according to a report from the agency’s inspector general.
Deion Sanders says he is cancer-free, fully healthy for 2026 season
Deion Sanders says he is cancer-free and fully healthy, crediting early detection after bladder cancer last year.
Trump says ‘I love the inflation’ as annual rate hits 3-year high
The president suggested the recent numbers mean there will be a bigger decline in inflation once the war in Iran is over.
Record lobby cash shapes EU pro-business agenda, campaigners say
The corporate titans of the tech, energy and chemicals industries are spending more than ever to influence EU decision-makers, determined to see more business-friendly policies -- and it's paying off,...
Record Lobby Cash Shapes EU Pro-business Agenda, Campaigners Say
The corporate titans of the tech, energy and chemicals industries are spending more than ever to influence EU decision-makers, determined to see more business-friendly policies -- and it's paying off, campaigners said Thursday.
The limits of self-funding: From the Politics Desk
Plus, Iran war whiplash.
Feel-Good Digital Publisher Upworthy Gets New CEO: Amanda Farrand, Alum of Imagine Entertainment and Hello Sunshine
Entertainment veteran Amanda Farrand has a new gig — where she’s in charge of sparking joy on the internet, and, ideally, making some money from it. Upworthy, a digital aggregator and producer of vira...
Small business optimism falls to lowest level since October 2024
Market Domination host Josh Lipton welcomes NFIB Research Center Executive Director Holly Wade to discuss the latest NFIB Small Business Optimism Index, which fell to its lowest level since October 2024 as inflation concerns continue to weigh on business owners. The decline effectively erases much of the optimism gained following President Trump's return to office.
From The Sports Desk: Carolina claims Game 4 in back-and-forth Stanley Cup Final
Jordan Staal scored the go-ahead goal, as the Hurricanes beat the Vegas Golden Knights 5-3 and even the series 2-2. Plus, today’s World Cup spotlight is Uruguay’s Federico Valverde.
Study splits Americans into nine political groups. Where do you belong?
Polling 10,000 Americans, the Pew Research Center found divisions on the political left and right, plus the Tuned-Out Middle.
Mike Vrabel finally gives answer on Stefon Diggs, Patriots reunion
Patriots coach Mike Vrabel commented on the likelihood of the team pursuing a reunion with star wide receiver Stefon Diggs.
Oregon professors weigh in on Brendan Sorsby and sports betting: ‘The line that cannot be crossed’
Should college sports divest from sports gambling altogether?
The LGBTQ+ Advocate and Entertainment Queen Cynthia Erivo
Cynthia Erivo fame has come with a range of charitable issues that she is passionate about. From uplifting LGBT communities to inspiring the next…
After shakeups at the CDC and FDA, is Trump moving away from MAHA?
A wave of firings and resignations at the highest levels of the CDC and FDA suggests the Trump administration may be pivoting away from facets of the MAHA movement.
News 10 Sports Director Tim Staudt nominated for Michigan Sports Hall of Fame
You can vote for Tim through Friday, June 12.
Iran war ripple effects are increasing risks of acute hunger for millions, World Food Program chief says
Ripple effects from the war in Iran are threatening millions more of the most vulnerable people with crisis levels of hunger or worse, World Food Program (WFP) acting Executive Director Carl Skau told CNN.
Deadline Hollywood
Bleecker Street and LD Entertainment are teaming on U.S. rights for 'A Talent for Murder' starring Helen Mirren, Alden Ehrenreich and Olivia Cooke. Read more below.
Apple Updates App Store Guidelines With Stricter Rules for Low-Quality Apps
Apple updated its App Store Review Guidelines this week, adding stricter language around low-quality apps. The 4.3 Spam rule already barred overly simple apps in saturated categories, but Apple now includes language saying low-effort apps could be pulled from the App Store. Apps in oversaturated categories that are not updated, improved, or do not attract customers may be removed, according to Apple.
After years of failed treatments, this psych program finally worked. Now her family owes $1 million.
The Levasseurs took out a second mortgage on their home and drained their savings, desperate to keep their older daughter in treatment.
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Runway Show models say every body is a target online
As “skinny” returns to mainstream fashion and wellness culture, several celebrities have expressed fatigue with constant criticism.
Why Graham Platner’s margin matters in the Maine: From the Politics Desk
Plus, how California emerged as a target for unfounded election fraud claims.
Fantasy Rookie Profile: Ja'Kobi Lane in redraft leagues
Another fantasy profile is on deck as we look at Ja'Kobi Lane.
Detroit summer lineup of events, entertainment, and big-name connections with Embarco Management Founder Mikey Eckstein
Fox 2's Ronia Shamona joins Mikey Eckstein to hear all about Influence Thursdays and so much more
From The Sports Desk: A raucous evening inside and outside Madison Square Garden
NBC News reported on the ground, as the New York Knicks played their first NBA Finals home game in 27 years. Plus, Canada’s Alphonso Davies is today’s World Cup spotlight.
Jack Schlossberg responds to Madonna saying his uncle, JFK Jr., was 'best f---' of her life
John F. Kennedy Jr.'s nephew, Jack Schlossberg, has reacted to Madonna saying his uncle was the best sex of her life.
Adults should have no more than one drink a day, a team of scientists says
Their conclusion differs from the current U.S. dietary guidelines.
Business, unions unite against Swiss immigration cap push
Swiss business leaders and unions are mobilising ahead of a vote Sunday on capping immigration, which has triggered fears of dire impacts on employment and trade relations with the European Union.Majo...
Japan 'pray' on Endo fitness for World Cup opener
Japan captain Wataru Endo is in a race to be fit for their World Cup opener against the Netherlands on Sunday, leaving coach Hajime Moriyasu "praying" he makes it.Endo took part in running and passing drills with his team-mates on Monday after moving to their World Cup base in Nashville, and Moriyasu said he was still in contention to face the Dutch in Dallas.
State Assemblyman Alex Bores speaks on AI and politics
State Assemblyman Alex Bores, a candidate for New York's 12th Congressional District, speaks with NBC News’ Gadi Schwartz about why some top artificial intelligence companies are opposing his candidacy and whether AI should play a role in politics.
Nithya Raman advances over Spencer Pratt to face L.A. Mayor Karen Bass in a runoff
NBC News projects Bass, the Democratic incumbent, and Raman, a City Council member, will face off in November after receiving the most votes in the all-party first-round election.
How Maine’s Senate race looks similar to another recent major election: From the Politics Desk
Plus, the latest on Israel’s domestic politics amid war with Iran.
We can create the future of science right now
Paul Litvak is the founder and Executive Director of the Robyn Dawes Institute and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley. He has a PhD in Behavioral Decision Research from Carnegie Mellon where he studied emotions and the sunk cost bias. Over 15 years in industry, he solved a wide range of challenging technical problems. At Meta he created models optimizing the ad review process. At Google he ran experiments to measure social influence. At Airbnb, he was a product manager leading machine learning teams optimizing search ranking and price suggestions. He also co-founded and led product at Rhythmic Health, a venture-backed biosensing startup, creating an accurate low cost system using a color changing strip and a smart phone to measure salivary lactate. The bottleneck At this point, it is uncontroversial to say that science needs to stop using the PDF article as the unit of knowledge and currency. The unbearable slowness of scientific publishing, the profit motive and margins: I’m not saying anything new. The PDF also sucks because it’s hard to extract structured information, which makes it hard to do evidence synthesis. As a result, we do much less evidence synthesis than is needed. And evidence synthesis ultimately undergirds most policy and medical decision-making. I can see second-by-second real-time odds for any sporting or newsworthy event, but a school board can’t see the best evidence on whether their 8th graders should be taught algebra. As a society, we don’t treat this as an important problem. Again, not controversial. Not only is the problem well understood, but the solution has already been laid out. What we need is AI-assisted living evidence synthesis - (1) an open knowledge graph of atomic claims, (2) claims linked to evidence, (3) assessment and synthesis of each piece of evidence, and (4) continuous updating with new data. What few realize (yet) is that the technical capacity to build this vision for a significant portion of science already exists. Not only that, scientists and startup teams are already building many of these components. I know this because I’ve been surveying the space and talking to many of the builders. There are some missing pieces: for example, evaluations of how well some of the components work. But at this point, most of what’s missing is a fully end-to-end working integration of all of these parts. In the rest of this essay, I’m going to lay out all the parts of a working living evidence layer for science and who is working on them, and propose concrete next steps for building this system. What’s now possible The diagram above outlines the components of a living evidence synthesis platform, including some of the teams working on each component1. Scientific PDFs are processed into claims with associated evidence. The evidence is subjected to a forensic audit, methodological evaluation and robustness and reproducibility checks. Finally it’s given a weight in a continuously updating synthesis. What follows is a description and status of each component and a few of the teams working on them. Document understanding The first thing you need to be able to do is turn an article into structured data. Mostly that means parsing PDFs. There are often multicolumn layouts that confuse non-specialized PDF to text processing libraries. For scientific papers, there is the added complexity of parsing formulas and tables and figures. This is a really hot area - there are startups offering APIs, and it seems like a new open source package gets posted to Github every few weeks. What follows isn’t exhaustive. A package called GROBID was the state of the art for a while, they didn’t update their package for nearly two years until very recently. In the meantime reducto.ai released an AI powered PDF extraction API, PaddleOCR became popular, IBM released a model called Docling, and both Mistral and Gemini created models and libraries. I also know of at least one other well-funded psychology research group working on a paper parser. By contrast, there are few open evals in this space, with no extensive evals for complex table comprehension in particular. Nonetheless, I’m confident this will be a solved problem soon, given the combination of LLM advances and developer interest. Hypothesis level extraction There has been increasing interest in comprehending the extracted text of papers and linking information to evidence for each hypothesis. A lot of work has already been done. Trialstreamer (Marshall et al. 2020) and RobotReviewer LIVE (Marshall et al. 2023) demonstrated automated extraction of trial population, intervention, and outcome at scale on clinical RCTs. PaperQA2 (Skarlinski et al. 2024) and Ai2 ScholarQA (2024) extended this to retrieval-augmented question answering with citation grounding. Elicit, Consensus, and SciSpace operationalized claim-level extraction for end users. OpenEval (Booeshaghi et al. 2026) is the most recent and most ambitious: 1.96 million atomic claims extracted from 16,087 eLife manuscripts using Claude Sonnet 4.5, grouped into ~299,000 results, with LLM evaluations showing 81% agreement with human peer review on a 2,487-paper subset. None of these solutions link claims to test-statistics, as you would need to evaluate randomized controlled trials. This is why I built the evidence.guide API - to extract hypotheses and associated test statistics from behavioral science papers. The best public eval of this kind of extraction I’m aware of comes from the recent SCORE project - they had humans code thousands of psychology papers to extract their claims by hand. It would be extremely helpful to the world if all scientific PDFs were available as structured open data. I’ve been working to make this happen, both directly at Berkeley and through coordination with large entities I can’t yet speak of; as hard as it is to do, I think it’s possible2. Forensic audit A lot of work has been done on forensic audit, but some gaps remain. Of course, for biology papers that rely on images for evidence, there are a variety of tools (notably Proofig and ImageTwin) to spot anomalies. These are still well short of what sleuths like Elizabeth Bik can do on her own, but these tools are constant companions among fraud analysts. There’s someone working on auditing Excel files for anomalies, and a number of teams are automating numerical checks like GRIM and SPRITE, including Scrutiny project, the INSPECT-SR team as well as statcheck. The regcheck team is building a way to use AI to compare preregistrations to analyses in papers, to ensure there aren’t significant deviations. Nonetheless, there are many other kinds of anomalies to screen for, both public and less publicly known. And there are no formal evals for anomaly detection that I’m aware of. Still, there’s a lot to draw from in this space and I’m pretty certain we will be able to scan papers for most kinds of obvious anomalies in the near future. Methodological review This area has been white hot, though I fear for many of the startups in this space, because this capability may become commoditized. There are at least six different AI peer review companies, including Refine.ink, Reviewer3, ReviewerZero.ai, Q.E.D. Science, Paper Wizard, and Isitcredible. Coarse (a pun on refine) was also recently created as an open source alternative. These systems provide qualitative feedback on the content of papers, spotting methodological weaknesses and mathematical errors. They seem to work pretty well, and many academics report bitterly that they exceed the average quality of typical peer reviewers. But there are few evals here either. What evals exist so far involve using LLM-as-judge (circularity problems abound) or comparing against human reviews of questionable quality. What you’d ideally want is an eval that measures capturing known errors in papers3. Reproducibility and robustness Another active area has been using AI agents to automate computational reproducibility4 and robustness5 checks in papers that report numerical results. For more recent papers where data and code are available, AI agents can see whether they can re-run the analyses and produce the numbers reported in the published paper. In addition to a handful of individual academics who have been experimenting using Claude Code for this, the Institute for Replication is a leading group working on building an end to end system. The evals related to this problem are the most mature, with CORE-Bench (Siegel, Kapoor, Narayanan 2024) and PaperBench (OpenAI 2025) available to benchmark agents on this task. There is also work on getting AI agents to test alternative ways of analyzing the data to ensure the results are robust to small analytic design choices. Synthesis This is the most underdeveloped area where significant investment is required. Although some automated evidence synthesis systems exist — for example, otto-sr is building an AI agent to write systematic reviews — none of these incorporate the full range of paper level signals to weight evidence appropriately. Nor is there anything like an eval or a gold standard for a good systematic review. Arguably Cochrane reviews are the closest we have to gold standard human systematic reviews, though I’ve heard academics in the know complain about their uneven quality. A key question for a synthesis platform is how to weight anomalies and methodological issues in assessing the quality of a piece of evidence. This is an unsolved problem and one I’m very keen to work on. Continuous updating There are many pieces of basic infrastructure available for monitoring for new research and initiating updates. OpenAlex is the current open citation graph. Retraction Watch integrated into Crossref in October 2023. Scite tracks how citations support, contrast, or mention prior claims. The Living Evidence Network demonstrated continuous-update workflows in clinical guidelines. Engineering this is a relatively straightforward task. When you look over this technical architecture and all the progress being made, it’s hard not to be optimistic that a living guide to scientific evidence will be built. The stakeholders are ready The social infrastructure for this is starting to coalesce — it’s not just a pie in the sky academic exercise to imagine this coming into existence. Institutions like the Center for Open Science, the Institute for Replication, the INSPECT-SR, the Living Evidence Network and more are all working on scaling work to improve research quality. Funders are also aligned. The Sloan Foundation has funded living evidence work through COS. Coefficient Giving supports the Institute for Replication and COS. The Astera Institute and the Institute for Progress have shown interest in this space. NIH has established an Office for Replication and Reproducibility. Although there are (very unfortunately) serious headwinds in science funding generally, there is an active group of funders interested in metascience. A brief word about what I’ve been doing at RDI. First, as a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley I’ve been actively figuring out how a non-profit and a public university can conduct and make public the results of large-scale academic article data mining. With some of the money I raised from donors, I commissioned a legal analysis of recent case law and publisher text data mining (TDM) agreements in order to understand whether a massive open data mining of academic articles is possible (with caveats, it is). I’ve also been working to bring together stakeholders in this space, and identify gaps. I’ve also been doing some software development in this space, with more to come. A pilot proposal The assumption undergirding all of this is that an AI, given all this information, would make the right judgment about a scientific claim with lots of conflicting evidence, weighing all the factors appropriately. That’s the hypothesis we need to test. Randomized control trial research is the best place to focus on first. RCTs are used to make many of the important decisions in society - from medical trials to public policy changes. And they use a relatively uniform set of inferential statistics with lots of known and available diagnostics. Behavioral science experiments, within the broader realm of RCTs, should be first used as a testbed whose results can be generalized. Because behavioral science is at the vanguard of open science practices, replications abound (there are thousands of them) to serve as ground truth training data. Key Hypothesis Therefore the pilot would test, in behavioral RCTs that have been replicated, whether the quality of evidence for a claim can be used to accurately predict whether that claim will replicate. Secondary Hypotheses Compared to claims that replicated, non-replicated claims demonstrate a greater share of forensic anomalies in their source literatures. Hypothesis level claim and statistic extraction is accurate enough to scale living evidence without onerous human review costs. Replication prediction is more accurate than prediction markets6 or journal prestige. If all the different quality signals we gather do accurately predict which studies will replicate, then we can use that model to score evidence to power the living evidence layer. Why this is informative regardless of outcome If the pilot succeeds, the architecture extends to medical RCTs (where Living Evidence already operates and integration is mostly about claim representation), then to slices of basic biology with stable replication structure. If it fails, the field learns which quality signals are load-bearing and which ones metascience has oversold. Either result is a contribution to knowing what the literature supports. Implications for funders Because this burgeoning ecosystem of builders already exists, a well-informed philanthropic or government funder could play a crucial catalyzing role in bringing this future about. They could play at least three roles: creating open structured datasets, publishing open benchmarks and incentivizing the solving of key technical challenges. First, open archives of papers that the government maintains, like PubMed, could be turned into structured data amenable to large scale metascience and claim aggregation. I know the US government already has an interest in doing this, though some key open questions remain unanswered. How do you determine the best models and systems for accurately extracting information from papers? How can you establish a robust way to allow researchers to flag errors and correct them? And finally, how do you create a legal regime in working with publishers to maximize the scope of available papers? For the latter, a university or a private philanthropy may be better positioned to make structured data publicly available under journal subscription terms or fair use. Philanthropists or government funders could also coordinate to create or commission benchmarks that evaluate whether important problems have been solved. For example, an open benchmark for claim extraction from a range of different scientific article types would be extremely helpful. Ensuring the underlying data are accurate is vital for creating these evaluations. I’ve discussed opportunistically using various human-created datasets for this purpose, but a consistent problem is that errors in human data make it difficult for them to serve as a gold standard. Finally, with structured data and benchmarks available, the government or private philanthropy could use them to incentivize groups to develop machine learning systems that meet these benchmarks. Prizes are one potentially valuable tool for this. For example, you could establish a prize for a system that accurately updates a living meta-analysis for a small set of claims. Prizes are particularly useful as signals of problem importance, and can help create vibrant ecosystems of public and private research—see, for example the role the government played in kickstarting the current work on nuclear fusion. Conclusion The drawbacks of the current scientific publishing system are known. Scientists agree, metascientists agree, philanthropists agree: the published PDF plus citation graph isn’t the right substrate for maintaining a representation of the evidence base in science. The pieces needed to build the alternative either already exist or are rapidly taking shape. The community is forming around exactly this problem, with concrete partnerships and shared infrastructure. A pilot should start on behavioral science RCTs because that’s the slice of empirical science most amenable to legibility, where replication ground truth is richest, and where the failure modes are best documented. What’s been missing is the galvanizing mission to assemble these pieces into something that works. That’s what I’m proposing to build. *** 1 I have a broader field map that I’ll release publicly soon. This is me, building in public! 2 If this is something that you are excited about, please reach out and talk to me. 3 More on this very soon too! 4 This tests whether, given the code and the data, you can get the same statistics as reported in the published paper. 5 This tests whether the results are the same as a paper’s given alternative analytical decisions in conducting the analysis (like outlier omission). Closely related is the idea of a “multiverse” where you come up with many different ways of answering the same underlying research question with the same data, and test whether the results hold in all those alternative methods. There’s been work on the latter as well. 6 Some of the replications, e.g. those from the SCORE project, had paired the experiments with forecasts from prediction markets. So we get to look at this for free.
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What It Takes To Be A Top Tier Entertainment Lawyer in 2026
Share I’ve recently run several popular posts breaking down data related to sought after legal jobs. General Counsel Big Law Appellate Attorney Here is another in this series. Two Lawyers, One Elite Market Entertainment law can sound like a single professional category. In practice, the lawyers who reach the top of the Hollywood market often look quite different from one another. Consider two attorneys from the 2025 top-entertainment-law universe. Lesley Freeman represents one route: the company-side entertainment lawyer. She is chief legal officer of AGBO, where she oversees company-wide business and legal affairs across film, television, video game and interactive experiences, and technological innovation, after senior legal roles at MGM, Amazon MGM Studios, HBO, and O’Melveny. Daniel Petrocelli represents another route: the outside-counsel trial lawyer. He is chair of O’Melveny’s trial practice and a vice chair of the firm, with a national litigation practice that includes entertainment, sports, and media disputes. Their careers differ by platform, role, practice area, and professional identity. One sits inside an entertainment company; the other practices from a major law firm. One is associated with corporate and governance work; the other with litigation. Yet both fall within the same publicly recognized top tier of Hollywood lawyers. That contrast points to the article’s central question. If there is no single mold for a top entertainment lawyer, are the paths simply idiosyncratic, or do they follow recurring patterns? The data suggest the latter. The attorneys recognized on The Hollywood Reporter and Variety’s 2025 top-attorney lists do not follow one career template, but their paths are not random. They cluster around several defined routes: entertainment-focused private practice, company-side or operator experience, corporate and finance conversion, litigation conversion, public-service-to-litigation pathways, and smaller specialized lanes in labor, employment, and celebrity family law. Across those routes, the recurring ingredients are platform strength, educational capital or Los Angeles market proximity, long career tenure, specialized practice identity, and entertainment-industry fluency. The article examines five dimensions of the top-attorney sample: route into entertainment law, firm or organizational platform, education pipeline, seniority, and practice specialization. Data and Methodology The dataset includes 103 attorneys drawn from The Hollywood Reporter and Variety’s 2025 lists of top entertainment or Hollywood attorneys. For each attorney, the dataset tracks current organization, law school, J.D. year where available, first-known bar admission year, practice area, prior roles, platform type, and route into entertainment law. The sample is best understood as a recognized-attorney dataset, not a census of all entertainment lawyers. It captures lawyers who reached public top-tier recognition in 2025, rather than every lawyer practicing in the entertainment sector. Multiple but Defined Routes Into Entertainment Law The first question is how these lawyers entered the entertainment-law market. Because every attorney in the dataset is entertainment-related by definition, the key distinction is not whether they practice entertainment law. It is how they got there. The largest group followed what might be called the entertainment private-practice route. These attorneys appear to have built their practices around entertainment, media, talent, music, rights, production, intellectual property, or adjacent industry work relatively early. That route accounts for 40 of the 103 attorneys in the sample, or 38.8%.
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