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AI hallucinations are a problem for the legal profession | Los Angeles Times
“I can’t believe people haven’t yet cottoned to the thought that AI-generated material is full of errors and fabrications, and therefore every citation in a filing needs to be confirmed,” [said] UCLA’s Eugene Volokh.
The importance of Stroke Awareness Month | KCAL-TV
“Stroke is where there’s sometimes lack of blood flow to the tissue of the brain. By doing so, the brain tissue can’t function,” said UCLA’s Dr. May Nour.
Charges against congresswoman fuel intimidation claims | Washington Post
Others, such as Eugene Volokh, an emeritus First Amendment professor at UCLA, said he believes there are “plausible arguments” that the judge and congresswoman may have broken the law.
Trump cuts imperil weather monitoring before fire season | Sacramento Bee
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, said, “day-to-day, on an average day like today, for example, probably not likely to be a life-threatening problem. “But imagine for a moment we’re in the middle of a wildfire crisis, as we were in July or August of 2020,” Swain added, “or any number of extreme wildfire events that made very rapid nighttime advancements in the last decade or so.”
A common antidepressant could help your body fight cancer | Gizmodo
A common class of antidepressant medications might be even more useful than we thought. Research out today suggests that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, can fend off cancer and boost the immune system’s defenses against it. Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, led the study, published in Cell. (UCLA’s Lili Yang was quoted.)
What are your allergy season questions? | KQED-FM’s “Forum”
[UCLA’s Dr. [Maria] Garcia-Lloret agrees that allergies have climbed steadily over the past four decades. “There’s no doubt respiratory and food allergies are on the rise,” she says. Climate change lengthens flowering and pollen seasons, and the evidence is clear. A 2022 study in Frontiers in Allergy directly links a spike in oak and ragweed pollen to rising temperatures and elevated CO2 levels.
Two Israeli Embassy staffers killed in shooting | KNBC-TV
“It’s incredibly rare, with very little precedent, when we see foreign agents of a U.S. ally targeted here on U.S. soil, especially in Washington D.C.,” said UCLA School of Law’s Benjamin Radd (approx. 1:40 mark).
Capuchin monkey abductions stun scientists | KTTV-TV
“In a sense, it’s not that shocking if you know capuchins. So, I should preface this by saying that capuchins are very fond of infants… And so, it’s very normal for males to abduct male infants of their own species and run around with them, caring for them just like this, not being entire competent babysitters,” said UCLA evolutionary anthropologist and field primatologist Susan Perry.
