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A |     DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- While revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all times — the spiriting out of six American diplomats who escaped the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure in Iran — the intelligence agency for the first time has acknowledged something else as well.The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic.Other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, but the CIA's acknowledgment in a podcast about the agency's history comes as much of its official history of the coup remains classified 70 years after the putsch. That complicates the public's understanding of an event that still resonates, as tensions remain high between Tehran and Washington over the Islamic Republic's rapidly advancing nuclear program, its aiding of militia groups across the Mideast and as it cracks down on dissent. The “CIA’s leadership is committed to being as open with the public as possible," the agency said in a statement responding to questions from The Associated Press. "The agency’s podcast is part of that effort — and we knew that if we wanted to tell this incredible story, it was important to be transparent about the historical context surrounding these events, and CIA’s role in it.”In response to questions from the AP, Iran's mission to the United Nations described the 1953 coup as marking “the inception of relentless American meddling in Iran’s internal affairs” and dismissed the U.S. acknowledgments.“The U.S. admission never translated into compensatory action or a genuine commitment to refrain from future interference, nor did it change its subversive policy towards the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the mission said in a statement. The CIA's podcast, called “The Langley Files” as its headquarters is based in Langley, Virginia, focused two recent episodes on the story of the six American diplomats' escape. While hiding at the home of the Canadian ambassador to Iran, a two-man CIA team entered Tehran and helped them fly out of the country while pretending to be members of a crew scouting for a made-up science fiction film.The caper, retold in the 2012 Academy Award-winning film “Argo” directed by and starring Ben Affleck, offered a dramatized version of the operation, with Affleck playing the late CIA officer Antonio “Tony” Mendez. The podcast for the first time identified the second CIA officer who accompanied Mendez, naming him as agency linguist and exfiltration specialist Ed Johnson. He previously only had been known publicly by the pseudonym “Julio.”“Working with the six — these are rookies," Johnson recounts in an interview aired by the podcast. "They were people who were not trained to lie to authorities. They weren’t trained to be clandestine, elusive.” But in the podcast, another brief exchange focuses on the 1953 coup.In it, CIA spokesman and podcast host Walter Trosin cites the claims of agency historians that the majority of the CIA’s clandestine activities in its history “bolstered” popularly elected governments.“We should acknowledge, though, that this is, therefore, a really significant exception to that rule,” Trosin says of the 1953 coup.CIA historian Brent Geary, appearing on the podcast, agrees.“This is one of the exceptions to that," Geary says.Seven decades later, the 1953 coup remains as hotly debated as ever by Iran, its theocratic government, historians and others. Iran's hard-line state television spent hours discussing the coup that toppled Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh on its anniversary in June. In their telling, a straight line leads from the coup to the 1979 Islamic Revolution that ultimately toppled the fatally ill shah. It still fuels the anti-Americanism that colors decisions made by the theocracy, whether in arming Russia in its war on Ukraine or alleging without evidence that Washington fomented the recent nationwide mass protests targeting it. From the U.S. side, the CIA's hand in the coup quickly was revealed as a success of Cold War espionage, though historians in recent years have debated just how much influence the agency's actions had. It also led the CIA into a series of further coups in other countries, including Guatemala, where American clandestine action in 1954 installed a military dictator and sparked a 40-year civil war that likely killed some 245,000 people.That's led to an American political reappraisal of the 1953 CIA action in Iran. Then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright acknowledged the U.S.' "significant role" in the coup in 2000. President Barack Obama, speaking in Cairo in 2009, described the CIA's work as leading to the “overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government.” But largely absent from the discussion was the CIA itself. After years of conflicting versions of the coup both in public and classified papers, a member of the CIA's own in-house team of historians wrote a reappraisal of the operation in a 1998 paper titled “Zendebad, Shah!” in Farsi — or “Long Live the Shah!”But despite a series of American historical documents being made public, including a major tranche of State Department papers in 2017, large portions of that CIA reappraisal remain heavily redacted despite attempts to legally pry them loose by the George Washington University-based National Security Archive. That's even after pledges by former agency directors Robert Gates and James Woolsey Jr. in the 1990s to release documents from that coup and others engineered by the agency. Further complicating any historical reckoning is the CIA's own admission that many files related to the 1953 coup likely had been destroyed in the 1960s.“It’s wrong to suggest that the coup operation itself has been fully declassified. Far from it," said Malcolm Byrne of the National Security Archive. "Important parts of the record are still being withheld, which only contributes to public confusion and encourages myth-making about the U.S. role long after the fact.”。     8 月 26 日消息，Alphabet 旗下谷歌周二扩展了其 Gemini Enterprise 人工智能平台，推出面向律师和律所的新工具，进一步加剧了科技公司争夺法律行业 AI 需求的竞争。谷歌表示，Gemini Enterprise for Legal 将帮助律所利用 AI 处理日常工作以及复杂任务，让律师能够将更多精力投入到价值更高的专业服务，同时确保数据的安全性和保密性。Gemini Enterprise for Legal 新增的插件支持与法律软件和数据平台集成，并提供一系列 AI 智能体。谷歌称，这些 AI 智能体能够处理专业化的法律及行政工作，无需大量人工监督。Alphabet 去年 10 月面向企业客户推出了 Gemini Enterprise，希望通过 AI 产品吸引更多企业客户。Google Cloud 目前已成为 Alphabet 增长最快的业务之一。除了法律行业外，谷歌周二还宣布推出面向金融服务行业的相关工具，并计划在未来陆续推出更多针对特定行业的产品。注意到，包括 Anthropic 在内的竞争对手近期也在不断扩展企业级 AI 产品，其中也包括面向法律行业的服务。德勤发布的一份关于 2026 年法律行业 AI 应用情况的报告显示，律所正在大力投资 AI 技术，而这场行业转型仍处于早期阶段。

B | 拥有路透社和 Westlaw 法律研究数据库的汤森路透，也是谷歌争夺法律行业市场份额的竞争对手之一。该公司周一推出了自主研发的大语言模型 Thomson 1.0。该模型基于汤森路透的法律研究内容进行训练，主要面向专业工作场景。公司表示，该模型采用开源技术构建，并利用了其数十年来积累的大量“权威”法律内容。谷歌表示，其平台将与汤森路透旗下的其他法律科技平台，以及法律 AI 软件开发商 Harvey、Legora 等公司的产品实现直接且安全的连接。律所正在迅速采用生成式 AI 工具，用于协助法律研究、起草法律文件以及执行其他法律任务。与此同时，许多律所也开始将 AI 应用于客户管理、案件管理等业务运营环节，希望降低成本并提高工作效率。谷歌云产品负责人 Amrita Mehrok 表示，谷歌的新产品针对律所的实际需求进行了灵活设计，律所可以根据自身需求，在平台集成的多种 AI 模型之间进行选择。一些大型律所已经与 AI 服务商建立战略合作关系，有的甚至开始自行开发 AI 平台。谷歌表示，Weil Gotshal、Cleary Gottlieb、Freshfields 和 Williams & Connolly 等律所都参与了 Gemini Enterprise for Legal 的合作开发。Weil Gotshal 联合管理合伙人 Jonathon Soler 在接受采访时表示，客户越来越希望律师能够使用 AI，并借助 AI 提升工作效率。Cleary Gottlieb 管理合伙人 Jeffrey Karpf 则表示，与谷歌的合作将使该律所有机会“参与创建面向部署 AI 的律所所需的实用工具”。

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