AI

• A Wisconsin judge has sanctioned the District Attorney of Kenosha County in two related criminal cases, for submitting filings that included fictitious citations [CBS | Wisconsin Public Radio]

• A New York attorney has been publicly censured by the NY State Bar after being disciplined by a Texas court for submitting a brief containing AI-generated errors [Supreme Court of New York State - Attorney Grievance Committee]

• Baker McKenzie announced that it was eliminating upwards of 10% of its legal support/business services staffing, driving in part by increasing adoption of AI [Above the Law | Legal Cheek | Roll On Friday]

• Actress Alina Bisha is suing the Albanian government, saying that a contract to use her image and voice to program an AI avatar for the government has expired, and the government “continued using her likeness beyond the agreed timeframe and scope” [Politico]

• A federal judge commented that documents created by a defendant using GenAI tools and sent to his attorneys did not fall under the attorney-client privilege or work-product doctrine [Law360 ($) | Prosecutor’s motion | Docket]

• From Wired [$]: “An AI Toy Exposed 50,000 Logs of Its Chats With Kids to Anyone With a Gmail Account” [Malwarebytes | PC Mag | Blog - Joseph Thacker | Letter from Sen. Maggie Hassan to bondu CEO]

• From Law.com [$]: “Attorneys Aren't Talking About AI With Each Other, But Everyone Agrees They Should Be”

Miscellaneous

• A group of 5 Democratic Senators have introduced a bill that would limit Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection’s (CPB) use of facial recognition systems [Ars Technica | Congress.gov]

• Amazon Ring’s ad during the Super Bowl, touting Ring’s Search Party feature for helping find lost dogs, has led to a backlash against the company for the “creepy,” “sinister” commercial [PC World | Yahoo News! | GeekWire]

• From CyberNews: “The Windows 11 Notepad app, recently upgraded with AI features, now carries a high-severity flaw that exposes users to dangerous attacks. Hackers can simply send boobytrapped text files and remotely compromise users with a single click”

Long Reads

• Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al., Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia (2025) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17065099

• Abouzaid, M., Blumberg, A.J., Hairer, M., et al., First Proof (2026) preprint arXiv:2602.05192 [Summary: NY Times ($) | Phys.org | Harvard Gazette]

• Chien, Colleen V. and Narang, Niyati and Ferrari, Isabela, JudgeGPT: When Progress Meets Precedent (February 06, 2026). Accepted to appear in Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Volume 40, No. 4, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6187978

• Komljenovic, J., Williamson, B., Birch, K. et al., Assetizing academic content and the emergence of the ‘assetizen’: education platforms, publisher databases, and AI model training, High Educ (2026) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-025-01622-w

• Posner, Eric A. and Saran, Shivam, Silicon Formalism: Rules, Standards, and Judge AI (January 29, 2026), https://ssrn.com/abstract=6155012 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6155012

• Smith, Michael L., In Praise of Generative AI (February 09, 2026), https://ssrn.com/abstract=6202998 

• Song, P., Han, P., and Goodman, N., Large Language Model Reasoning Failures (2026), arXiv:2602.06176