The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has approved a new policy by the Police Department that would authorize the use lethal force against suspects by robots:

• Articles: Mission Local, Engadget, Verge

• Draft policy

Georgetown Law is launching a Judicial Innovation Fellowship to get technologists, designers and use testers into state and tribal courts around the country

Technology policy groups have written a letter to U.S. senators decrying the Kids Online Safety Act, writing that the bill could increase harm to children in teens in abusive situations or who are LGBTQ by denying them access to critical information.

Cryptocurrency lender BlockFi filed for bankruptcy (Chapter 11) on Monday.

A new start-up called Harvey, which uses natural language processing to help answer legal questions, is now out of stealth mode and has raised $5 million.

According to Pitchbook, Web3 and DeFi are the largest areas of VC investment in emerging technologies for the 3rd quarter of 2022, but funding has dropped overall compared to the first half of the year.

LegalOn Technologies, a Japan-based legal technology company, is expanding into the U.S. and has hired Daniel Lewis, co-founder of Ravel, as U.S. CEO