Florida Lawyer’s Bar Referral Shows Why AI Review Must Go Beyond Citations
A lawyer can accept responsibility for a filing and still fail to explain why its contents were professionally defensible.
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Canadian Judicial Council’s AI Guidance Confronts the Deepfake Evidence Problem
Courts face two digital-evidence risks: accepting fabricated material and rejecting authentic material because someone labels it fake.
Read articleUK Pension Guidance Warns That Diversified Portfolios Can Hide a Concentrated AI Bet
A portfolio can hold investments across several sectors and still depend heavily on the same economic story.
Read articleLegora Raises US$550 Million: What the US$8.8 Billion Valuation Means for Legal Buyers
Legal-AI investment is reaching a scale that makes procurement a strategic decision for firms and corporate legal departments.
Read articleEPA Intervention Does Not End the NAACP’s Environmental Case Against xAI
Joining an environmental lawsuit and controlling its outcome are different procedural powers.
Read articleGoogle Cloud Outage Disrupts UK Courts and Tests Digital Resilience
A cloud outage can become a courtroom problem when participants depend on it to attend.
Read articleClearview AI Appeal Tests How Far UK Privacy Law Reaches Overseas
Can a private facial-recognition company rely on the governmental functions of its overseas customers to place its processing beyond UK privacy regulation?
Read articleCalifornia’s US$6 Million 23andMe Settlement Connects Genetic Privacy and Bankruptcy
A company’s bankruptcy can turn its customer information into a transaction issue. When that information includes genetic data and biological samples, the consequences extend well beyond the purchase price.
Read articleCourt Refuses to Undo Gemini’s CFTC Settlement Despite Agency Support
The regulator and the regulated company agreed that a settlement should be set aside. The court still required a legal basis for doing so.
Read articleTemu’s Texas Settlement Combines Data Controls and Product-Safety Duties
The payment resolves one part of a regulatory dispute. Continuing operational duties can shape the business long after it.
Read articleUK Proposes Strategic Market Status for Microsoft’s Business Software
Enterprise software contracts can shape an organization’s choices for years. Britain’s competition regulator is examining the market conditions surrounding those choices.
Read articleCyber Incident Halts U.S. Bankruptcy Notice Production
A cybersecurity incident can disrupt court proceedings without a confirmed theft of court files.
Read articleOpenAI and Meta Warn Judicial Panel About Deepfake Evidence
The courtroom challenge posed by synthetic media has two sides: identifying fabricated evidence and avoiding unsupported rejection of genuine recordings.
Read articleTikTok Gatekeeper Appeal: EU Advocate General Clarifies Evidence Threshold
A company can meet a regulatory threshold and still challenge the assumptions flowing from it. The harder question is how much evidence it must produce before regulators must investigate.
Read articleICO Acts Against Metropolitan Police Over Unapproved Data-Sharing Platform
A useful third-party tool can become an organizational privacy problem long before it becomes an officially approved system.
Read articleStripchat Loses EU Platform Challenge: Why User-Counting Methods Matter
A platform’s user count can determine far more than its advertising value. It can determine which regulatory obligations apply.
Read articleOpenAI Alleges Departing Employee Took Product Files to Apple
An employee can change employers. Whether confidential product information travelled with them is a different question.
Read articleOpenAI Engineer Charged Over Alleged Hidden Recording Device
Protecting sensitive technology involves more than securing code repositories. Confidential discussions can create a separate point of exposure.
Read articleGrok Biometric Privacy Lawsuit Raises Questions About AI Selfie Processing
Uploading a photograph and authorizing every form of analysis performed on it are different questions.
Read articleBanking Regulators Ask Whether Autonomous AI Agents Can Be Controlled
Giving an AI agent permission to act is one decision. Being able to reconstruct - and stop - its actions is another.
Read articleUK AI Oversight Moves Toward Incident Reporting and Independent Verification
An AI system fails, but a human intervenes before anyone is harmed. Should that near miss disappear into an internal log - or become information that regulators need to see?
Read articleBell AI Data Centre Faces First Nation Consultation Challenge Near Regina
Standing Buffalo Dakota First Nation seeks answers on Bell’s Regina-area AI campus, raising questions about Crown consultation and project expansion.
Read articleArizona Judge Bars AI Drafting of Amended Complaint After 67-Page Filing
An Arizona judge ordered a plaintiff to rewrite a 67-page complaint without AI, highlighting pleading clarity, verification and drafting judgment.
Read articleMore Law Firm Cyber Incidents Put Remote Access and Individual Devices Under Scrutiny
New incidents at major U.S. firms highlight remote access, individual devices and document exposure. Practical questions for Canadian law firm leaders.
Read articleEU AI Act Oversight Turns to Safety, Transparency and Copyright Records
EU requests to more than 30 AI companies focus on safety, transparency and copyright. Why governance documentation matters for Canadian businesses.
Read articleB.C. Court Warns That Poor AI Filings Can Undermine Access to Justice
AI can make a legal argument easier to generate. It can also make the argument harder - and more expensive - for a court to process.
Read articleAI and the Courts’ Search for Truth: Wagner and Fraser Address Growing Pressures
AI is changing how lawyers prepare their work. It also raises a deeper question: how will courts establish what is real?
Read articleSam Altman’s AI Risk Comments Raise a Legal Question: Who Bears the Harm?
AI’s benefits may justify taking risks. But who decides which risks are acceptable - and who pays when they materialize?
Read articleOpenAI Safety Resignation Raises AI Governance Questions
What if the hardest AI-safety problem is the culture inside the company?
Read articleMinnesota AI “Nudification” Law Temporarily Halted in xAI Appeal
Who should bear legal responsibility when an AI service allows someone to create a synthetic intimate image of an identifiable person?
Read articleJudge Declines Sanctions Over AI Errors, Raises Junior Lawyer Training Concerns
If AI writes the first draft, where does the next generation of lawyers learn to think through the case?
Read articleAI Agents Reportedly Probed a Canadian Government Website: What Is Known
Canada’s Cyber Centre says there is no indication that government systems were compromised. Researchers nevertheless report activity that raises questions about the boundaries of autonomous AI.
Read articleCalifornia’s SB 574 Sets New Rules for Lawyers Using Generative AI
California has put lawyers’ use of generative AI into statute. For Canadian lawyers, the development offers a concrete comparison.
Read articleWestlaw-ROSS AI Copyright Ruling: Why Competition Mattered to the Third Circuit
An AI product can introduce a new way to search without changing the legal questions surrounding the material used to build it.
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