AI

• The Department of Defense and Anthropic are in a tense stand-off over Claude’s guardrails, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth threatening to revoke Anthropic’s contract and blacklist it from government work [CNN | NY Times ($) | TechPolicy Press | CNBC | LawFare]

• Anthropic, developer of Claude AI, has announced new integrations and plug-ins for Cowork with Lexis, Intapp, Docusign and LegalZoom, as well as Harvey, Google Workspace [Law360 ($) | Legal IT Insider]

• Related: Lexis has unveiled a new version of Protégé that is organized around using and building legal workflows that is replacing Lexis+ AI [LawSites] | Law.com | Artificial Lawyer]

• From The Conversation: “The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself”

• An new agentic AI ‘companion’ (that appears to be a wrapper for OpenClaw) promises to help students at schools using the learning management software Canvas to “watches lectures, reads essays, writes papers, participates in discussions, and submits your homework — automatically” [Einstein | LinkedIn post | AI Agents and LMS Academic Integrity (Google page) | Inside Higher Ed ($) | Michelle Kassorla (Substack)]

• From PC Mag: “Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails”

[Ed. note: I tend to put papers in “Long Reads” because they are, but the meat of this paper is 3 pages, so …]

• Leviathan, Y., Kalman, M. and Matias, Y., 2025. Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs, arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.14982

Fabrication Follies

• Fletcher v. Experian Information Solutions, Inc. et al [Docket | Order]

• Kosel Equity LLC v. MacGregor et al. - Connecticut Supreme Court [Law.com ($) | Docket | Appellant’s Memo] [Note: this appears to be the first case of AI fabrications appearing before a supreme court]

Data Privacy

• From The Rage: “Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet”

• Related: LinkedIn’s system for providing verification badges also utilizes Persona, the age-verification software used by Discord & Roblox [Mashable]

Long Reads

• Catanzaro, Zachary, The Dead Law Theory: The Perils of Simulated Interpretation (February 01, 2026). Florida Law Review, forthcoming 2027, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6164388 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6164388

• Curl, Justin, Kapoor, Sayash & Narayanan, Arvind, AI Won’t Automatically MakeLegal Services Cheaper, Lawfare Research Report 26-1 (February 12, 2026), https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-won-t-automatically-make-legal-services-cheaper or https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27171560-ai-wont-automatically-make-legal-services-cheaper-curl-kapoor-narayanan-1/

• Solow-Niederman, Alicia, AI and Doctrinal Collapse (August 08, 2025). 78 Stanford Law Review __ (forthcoming 2026), GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2025-46, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2025-46, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5384965