AI

Two proposed solutions to AI fabrications in court filings:

• Shay Elbaum: Require self-represented litigants and attorneys to attach copies of unpublished cases when they are cited in a filing

• Oliver Roberts [$]: Require mandatory reporting of AI-related sanctions in courts to the Administrative Office of Courts to provide better data on the real prevalence of the problem

• The Claude-Native Law Firm [X/Twitter article]

• From Law360 [$]: “5 Different AI Systems Raise Distinct Privilege Issues”

• The Supreme Court has denied certiorati to Stephen Thaler, who was appealing his case against the Copyright Office for denying his application for copyright protection over an AI-generated artwork [Courthouse News | Engadget | Holland and Knight]

• From 404 Media [$]: “Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI “hallucinations,” or errors, to the resulting article”

• Google is defending a new lawsuit in federal court in CA over allegations that its AI chatbot, Gemini, encouraged a user to plan a “mass casualty attack,” steal an android body to transfer its conscience into, and finally, to commit suicide [Courthouse News | Wall St. Journal ($) | Docket | Complaint]

Data Security and Privacy

• Lexis Nexis has confirmed a major breach of their servers resulting in a leak of 2GB files [Bleeping Computer | WDTN News]

• Mother Jones has reviewed internal Meta documents that reveal the company has prohibited AI chatbots on its apps from discussing sexual and reproductive health topics, including abortion, with underage users

• From Reuters [$]: A U.S. State Department cable has ordered diplomats to “lobby against attempts to regulate U.S. tech companies' handling of foreigners' data” [Computer World | Lowy Institute | Modern Diplomacy | Reuters ($)]

• There are increasing incidents across the country of people sabotaging Flock cameras

• Thirty cities have canceled their contracts with Flock Safety or deactivated their cameras; Ring announced that its integration with Flock has been canceled

Long Reads

• Grochowski, Mateusz, Algorithmic Price Fairness (January 28, 2026). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6263538

• Mazeika, M., Gatti, A., Menghini, C., Sehwag, U.M., Singhal, S., Orlovskiy, Y., Basart, S., Sharma, M., Peskoff, D., Lau, E. and Lim, J., Remote labor index: measuring AI automation of remote work (2025( arXiv:2510.26787 [Summary available via Washington Post]