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Weekly Media Update

Week of July 11, 2025

AI Month

Here Is the Science of Why You Doomscroll

How (and why) do we decide between long-term planning and instant gratification?
"Understanding how our brains weigh these decisions can help us bridge what feels good now with what truly matters," writes Emily Falk in her recent New York Times guest essay.

Distinguished Faculty Retirement

The Warren Center recognizes the retirement of faculty affiliate Anita Allen. An internationally renowned expert on philosophical and legal dimensions of privacy and data protection, bioethics, legal philosophy, and women’s rights, Allen has been a member of Penn Law School's faculty since 1998. She also served as Penn’s Vice Provost for Faculty from 2013 to 2020.

Can You Identify AI? Interactive Tools to Train Your Brain to Detect AI-Generated Content

7/9: Penn Engineering Online Education | Chris Callison-Burch

Attractors Are Usually Not Mechanisms

7/8: Substack | Konrad Kording

Giga’s Impact on Learning Outcomes: What Do the Data Say?

7/8: Giga Connectivity Forum | Christopher Yoo

Luckin Coffee: From China’s Starbucks Slayer to a U.S. Newcomer

7/7: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon 

Mako: Speculative Distributed Transactions With Geo-Replication

7/7: USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation | Sebastian Angel 

Information Design for Many Parameters

7/7: ACM Conference on Economics and Computation | Rakesh Vohra

Human Thalamocortical Structural Connectivity Develops in Line With a Hierarchical Axis of Cortical Plasticity

7/4: Nature Neuroscience | Dani Bassett and Ted Satterthwaite

AMA: Guardrails vs. Leashes in Regulating AI

7/3: Reddit | Cary Coglianese

Grounding Intelligence in Movement

7/3: arXiv | Konrad Kording

Police in Maine Apologize for AI-Altered Photo of Seized Drugs

7/2: The Boston Globe | Cary Coglianese 

Sweet Vindication for Stem Cell Research, and American Science

7/2: The Hastings Center for Bioethics | Jonathan Moreno 

PAL: Designing Conversational Agents as Scalable, Cooperative Patient Simulators for Palliative-Care Training

7/2: arXiv | Lyle Ungar

Obstructions to Reality: Torsors & Visual Paradox

7/1: arXiv | Robert Ghrist

Duolingo’s Scaling Journey: Education Revolution or Engagement Obsession?

6/30: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon 

Optimized Methods for Composite Optimization: A Reduction Perspective

6/30: arXiv | Jason Altschuler 

Towards Style Alignment in Cross-Cultural Translation

6/30: arXiv | Lyle Ungar

Postdoc Federico Bobbio Wins Best Paper Award at IEEE DySPAN 2025

6/30: Northwestern University | Rakesh Vohra

Shifted Composition IV: Underdamped Langevin and Numerical Discretizations With Partial Acceleration

6/29: arXiv | Jason Altschuler 

Pennsylvania Is One of 28 States in a Legal Limbo After SCOTUS Birthright Ruling. What Happens Now?

6/27: The Philadelphia Inquirer | Cary Coglianese 

Questions Over Birthright Citizenship Loom After SCOTUS Decision

6/27: 6ABC | Cary Coglianese 

With Universal Injunctions Out of Style, Class Actions Are Already Trending

6/27: Courthouse News Service | Cary Coglianese 

Optimal Estimation of Watermark Proportions in Hybrid AI-Human Texts

6/27: arXiv | Weijie Su

On Leashing (and Unleashing) AI Innovation

6/25: Penn Law School Public Law Research Paper | Cary Coglianese

A High-Dimensional Statistical Theory for Convex and Nonconvex Matrix Sensing

6/25: arXiv | René Vidal

Generative AI vs. Predictive AI: What’s the Difference?

6/23: Built In | Chris Callison-Burch 

Fast State-Augmented Learning for Wireless Resource Allocation With Dual Variable Regression

6/23: arXiv | Alejandro Ribeiro

Distilling On-Device Language Models for Robot Planning With Minimal Human Intervention

6/20: arXiv | Alejandro Ribeiro and Vijay Kumar

Data-Agnostic Cardinality Learning From Imperfect Workloads

6/19: arXiv | Zack Ives

Regulating Robo-Advisors in an Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence

6/17: Washington and Lee Law Review | Tom Baker 

Insurer’s Dispute Trips Up Big Names in Litigation Finance Deals

6/12: Bloomberg Law | Tom Baker

Ecosystems in Competition Law: A U.S. Perspective

6/9: Network Law Review | Christopher Yoo 

Traverse City Municipal Broadband Still in the Red

6/2: Mackinac Center for Public Policy | Christopher Yoo 

How Can and Should Insurance Influence the Law of AI and AI Itself?

5/30: UConn School of Law | Tom Baker

Tech Companies Planned to Use Solar to Power Georgia Data Centers. AI Is Changing That

5/22: WABE | Benjamin C. Lee

Understanding Belief-Behavior Correspondence: Beliefs and Belief-to-Behavior Inferences

5/13: Psychological Inquiry  | Dolores Albarracín

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