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AI is changing legal work: models now draft contracts, research case law, and review discovery documents in a fraction of the time — while also raising problems, from fabricated citations to questions of liability. This hub covers how law firms, courts, and regulators are adopting and confronting AI.
Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal on August 25, giving law firms AI agents for contract review, brief drafting and regulatory tracking, with four major firms as first users.
Read more →Thomson Reuters launched Thomson, a proprietary AI model trained on its legal and news archives and built atop Alibaba's open-weight Qwen model, first powering CoCounsel Legal's document review.
Read more →India's Delhi High Court denied news agency ANI's bid to block OpenAI, ruling that training ChatGPT on its articles falls within a copyright fair-dealing exception.
Read more →A federal judge finalized Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors over pirated training books, the largest copyright class-action payout in US history.
Read more →Health insurers now use AI to screen and sometimes auto-deny claims and prior-authorization requests in seconds. Here's how the systems work, why lawsuits followed, and what protections exist.
Read more →A trade secret is confidential business information protected by law without a patent. Here's what counts, how courts enforce it, and why AI firms keep landing in court over one.
Read more →Apple has sued OpenAI in federal court, accusing two former Apple engineers of stealing confidential hardware secrets to help build OpenAI's in-development AI device.
Read more →A plain-language guide to discovery sanctions — the penalties courts hand out when a party hides, mishandles, or destroys evidence — and why they've become central to AI copyright lawsuits.
Read more →The New York Times and other publishers told a federal court that OpenAI hid its ability to search ChatGPT logs for copyrighted material and are seeking sanctions.
Read more →Federal preemption lets U.S. federal law override conflicting state law — and it is now the main legal tool the federal government is using to challenge state AI rules like Colorado's.
Read more →AI now drafts contracts, researches case law, and reviews discovery documents for lawyers — but it also fabricates citations that have gotten attorneys sanctioned in court.
Read more →Norm Ai raised $120 million in a Series C round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the AI-native law firm at $1.2 billion.
Read more →Midjourney turns text prompts into images using AI. Here's what it is, how to start using it, what it costs, and why it keeps ending up in court.
Read more →Midjourney has asked a federal judge to compel Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to disclose how they use AI internally, arguing the studios engage in the very practices they are suing it for.
Read more →AI-generated content sits in a legal grey zone: pure AI output generally cannot be copyrighted, but human creative choices layered on top of AI may be. Here is what the law currently says — and what it means for businesses.
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