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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has banned AI and social media apps “affiliated with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP)” from government-owned devices
Last week, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced a bill called “The Decoupling America’s Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act of 2025” [Text (PDF) | Congress.gov]
GenAI admonishments in court
Gonzalez v. Texas Taxpayers and Research Association [Order (on Lexis+) | Docket]
Greenflight Venture Corp. v. Google LLC [Order (PDF) | Docket]
Call for Papers & Workshops for the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL), June 16-20, 2025 in Chicago, IL
Are AI prompts by attorneys discoverable or protected by privilege?
At what point is GenAI use by law students “counterproductive” to legal education?
The Copyright Office has published part 2 of its report on artificial intelligence and the copyrightability of AI-generated material, finding that '“[h]uman authors are entitled to copyright in their works of authorship that are perceptible in AI-generated outputs, as well as the creative selection, coordination, or arrangement of material in the outputs, or creative modifications of the outputs”
“Reasoning” AI models
From Wired ($): Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data
Following the DeepSeek announcement, OpenAI and Anthropic have announced new capabilities/features: deep research for ChatGPT and Citations API for Claude
Reactions/Tests to ChatGPT deep research:
From LawNext’s Bob Ambrogi:
Test/Reaction 1 - Analyze the Legality of President Trump’s Pause of Federal Grants
Test/Reaction 2 - Picking the Best Cloud-Based Law Practice Management Software for a Small Law Firm
Vanderbilt Law School’s Mark Williams - “A Different Class”
Bloomberg Law’s Jason Wilson - AI Prompting
Colin LaChance - “It’s Time to Pay Attention”
AI Law Librarians - “OpenAI’s New Deep Research Model”
Long Reads
Posner, Eric A. and Saran, Shivam and RPS Submitter, Chicago Law, Judge AI: Assessing Large Language Models in Judicial Decision-Making (January 15, 2025). University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 25-03, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5098708 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5098708
Fan, Y., Tang, L., Le, H., Shen, K., Tan, S., Zhao, Y., Shen, Y., Li, X., & Gašević, D. (2024). Beware of metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative artificial intelligence on learning motivation, processes, and performance. British Journal of Educational Technology, 00, 1–42. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13544