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AI Roundup: Libraries AI Literacy Hackathon Expands Educational Resources; Current LLMs “Undertrained by a Factor of Maybe 100–1,000X or More” Says OpenAI Co-Founder; & More News Headlines

Houston Public Library’s New Director Cynthia Wilson Talks Fixing Morale, Other Big Changes; OCLC CEO Skip Prichard on “Connecting with Libraries, Reaffirming Our Mission”; & More Headlines

IU (Indiana University) is Safeguard For America’s Black History

HeatRisk: NOAA Expands Availability of New Heat Forecast Tool Ahead of Summer

A New Toolkit: Helping Libraries to be Autism-Ready

Alabama Library Employees Call Proposed Bill ‘Potential Slippery Slope,’ Consequences ‘Frightening’; ALA Announces State Intellectual Freedom Helpline Program Grants to Support Libraries Addressing Censorship Attempts; & More H

Report: “School Districts Await Statewide Book Ban List As Utah Plans To Retroactively Enforce New Law”

Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) Announces Launch of Infra Finder: “Your Hub for Finding Infrastructure Services Enabling Open Research and Scholarship”

VOA Video: “Librarians in Ukraine and Their Wartime Struggle to Save Libraries”

Preprint: “The Files are in the Computer: Copyright, Memorization, and Generative AI”

Research Article (Preprint): “The Emerging AI Divide in the United States”

Journal Article: “Benefits Of Open Access to Researchers From Lower-Income Countries: A Global Analysis of Reference Patterns in 1980–2020”

Alabama Bill That Criminalizes Librarians For Putting Explicit Material on Bookshelves Headed to House Floor; New Mexico Lawmakers Pass on Full Funding For Rural Libraries; & More Headlines

The Internet Archive Files Reply Brief in Lawsuit Appeal (Hachette Book Group, et al, v. Internet Archive)

Video Recording: The ARL/CNI Task Force on AI Futures Scenarios for the Research Enterprise and Research Libraries