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CT No.259: Mass audience surveillance: Palantir + USA Today Co.

Palantir has access to the personal information and news-reading behavior of—if USA Today Co.'s own reports are true—158 million average unique monthly visitors, or 48% of the American people.

"Reaching 1 in 2 Americans"
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CT No.259: Mass audience surveillance: Palantir + USA Today Co.

"Reaching 1 in 2 Americans"

Palantir has access to the personal information and news-reading behavior of—if USA Today Co.'s own reports are true—158 million average unique monthly visitors, or 48% of the American people.

Baby's umpteenth tradeshow: How the news publishing industry is surfing the AI tide

Downtown Chicago, featuring the Chicago Tribune.

What I heard and did not hear at ONA

How to set strategic priorities in an extended crisis

An email subject line: "Bloomberg - ICE kills US citizen"

You have more personal power than you think.

Billy Joel mathletics: How query fan-out identifies and interprets our weird world of words

Billy Joel mathletics: How query fan-out identifies and interprets our weird world of words

Query fan-out is a new term for what's long been a bedrock of keyword-based language processing: the nouns are central to understanding the user's intent.

Perception, intention, and poetic license: What is the attention mechanism that powers LLMs?

Perception, intention, and poetic license: What is the attention mechanism that powers LLMs?

The words we publish and hold up for peer review remain the best representation of our brains at work in the digital world. A published paper is the best way to look closely at the foundational assumptions of LLMs. And those begin with pop culture.

How does AI make sense of language?

How does AI make sense of language?

A late 2025 series aiming to break down the technologies that underpin generative AI, Large Language Models, Natural Language Understanding, and Information Retrieval. Featuring absolutely no math, minimal technical jargon, and lots of pop culture.

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