False Tips
AI
Damien Charlotin, creator of the AI Hallucinations Tracker, as a pre-print article (and blog post) about the potential for adversarial inputs in legal filings [See Long Reads]
From the NY Times [$]: Artificial intelligence researchers uncovered Chinese-made A.I. agents that had gone rogue this month, trying to bypass anti-robot protections on websites and using a security credential for an online mapping service that had been exposed on the internet
From CSO: “Cyber experts say AI labs’ containment and monitoring failures — not agents with minds of their own — are to blame for recent alarming hacking reports. CISOs should vet their AI vendors and tighten security basics as safeguards”
The Attorneys General of eight states have filed lawsuits in their respective state courts against OpenAI, claiming the company’s products are harming users, especially children under 13 years of age [Bloomberg Law ($) | CNBC (video) | NBC News | Platformer | Reuters ($) | Complaints: Arizona - Arkansas - Idaho - Iowa - Kansas - Montana - Nebraska - West Virginia]
Anthropic reported that its agents submitted a false tip on an unsolved murder to the Philadelphia police department [6ABC | AP News]
Last month, a Senate subcommittee held a hearing on “Rogue AI: Securing the Homeland Against AI Agent Attacks” [KQED | Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee - hearing webpage]
Microsoft has launched a set of skills and plug-ins for Copilot specifically for legal work
From Reuters [$]: “Over the course of this year, McAtee has stopped paying law firms to do many assignments traditionally done by junior lawyers, instead sending the work to a team of AT&T (T.N), opens new tab lawyers using artificial intelligence”
Fabrication Follies
Flycatcher Corp. Ltd. et al. v. Ozmos Co. LLC et al. [Docket | Opinion and Order]
Fry v. Fry [Docket | Memorandum]
Cybersecurity
The servers of the state court of Arizona were targeted in a cyberattack that is believed to have originated with a phishing link to a court employed; over 1 million people have had their personal information stolen in the attack [AP News | ABA Journal ($)]
The law firms of Holland & Knight and Squire Patton Boggs have disclosed recent data breaches, and Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough is being sued in federal court in a proposed class action over an alleged data breach [Law360 ($) | Reuters ($) | Johnson et al. v. Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough: Docket - Complaint]
A software engineer and YouTuber in Brampton, Ontario built an ALPR camera that tracked police vehicles; local law enforcement showed up at his house to discuss privacy concerns
From The Verge [$]: Does not saving captured images and audio mean that devices doing the capturing (and processing) are not ‘recording’ in a legal sense?
Long Reads
David Autor, Tanya Rodchenko, Josh Martin, et al., Does AI Assistance Enhance or Erode Expertise? Evidence from a Three-Month Field Experiment in Patent Drafting, NBER Working Paper 35720 (Sept. 2026), https://shapingwork.mit.edu/research/does-ai-assistance-enhance-or-erode-expertise-evidence-from-a-three-month-field-experiment-in-patent-drafting/
Damien Charlotin, Dual-Audience Advocacy: Adversarial Inputs in AI-Mediated Litigation (October 07, 2026), HEC Paris Research Paper Forthcoming, https://ssrn.com/abstract=7577580 [Demo webpage]
Grace Liu, Brian Christian, Tsvetomira Dumbalska, Michiel A. Bakker, and Rachit Dubey, AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance (2026), arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.04721
Martin B. (Marty) McGee, A Model Administrative Order Regarding the Use of Artificial Intelligence (Duke Center on Law & Tech, 2026), https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dclt/8/
Pamela Samuelson, Abhishek Nagaraj, and Christopher Jon Sprigman, Market dilution, fair use, and generative AI, 394 Science 275-277 (Oct. 15, 2026), DOI:10.1126/science.ael4888
Ricard Solé, Giulio Ruffini, Francesca Castaldo, et al., Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus (2026) arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.03344
