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A Filipino lawyer built a free AI that reads the law for you.

A Filipino lawyer opened a free AI search engine for Philippine law, South Korea lost 191,000 young workers with most of the drop in AI-exposed desk jobs, and Stripe agreed to pay more than 7 billion dollars for OpenRouter.

01Top Story

Kartilya puts PH law in plain English

Filipino lawyer Karlo Dizon built Kartilya.PH, a free site where you ask a question in everyday words and it searches the 1987 Constitution, the major codes and 4,164 court rulings.

why it matters
You can check what the law actually says about a contract or a landlord before you spend a peso on a lawyer.
Read at Rappler
02Jobs

Korea lost 191,000 young workers

South Korea's data ministry says 191,000 fewer 15-to-29-year-olds had jobs in July than a year earlier, and 51.3% of that drop came from information technology and other knowledge work.

why it matters
Past slumps hit factories and restaurants first. This is the first one led by the desk jobs graduates start in.
Read at The Korea Times
03Scams

Scammers faked a prime minister

Australia's markets regulator says fake videos of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pushing bogus investments are the most common celebrity scam, and victims lost $7.4 million to the top 10 faked figures.

why it matters
The regulator handled 19,400 scam reports last year, almost triple the year before, and it says AI is why.
Read at The Guardian
04Research

AI kids' stories are 2% female

University of Washington researchers read 23,800 talking-animal stories written by six leading AI tools and found 41% male characters and just 2% female, with the rest given no gender at all.

why it matters
Parents and teachers already use AI to make bedtime stories, and the animals in them are almost never girls.
Read at Technology.org
05Money

Stripe is buying OpenRouter for $7B

Bloomberg reports payments giant Stripe has agreed to buy OpenRouter, a service that lets apps switch between more than 400 AI systems, for over $7 billion.

why it matters
OpenRouter was valued at 1.3 billion dollars in May, so its price has more than quintupled in three months.
Read at TechCrunch

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