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October 30, 2025

Mock Bot Court

A small newsletter on legaltech

AI

  • Two federal judges have apologized for releasing court orders with AI-fabricated errors in response to Sen. Grassley’s inquiry; the senator has called for “every federal judge, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and the Judicial Conference to develop formal measures and meaningful guidance to prevent future AI misuse” [Wingate letter | Neals letter]

  • OpenAI has restructured as a for-profit public-benefit corporation, with Microsoft acquiring a 27% stake [CNBC | The Guardian ($) | WSJ ($) | Verge | NY Times ($)]

  • OpenAI’s new AI-enhanced web browser has come in for criticism over privacy and data security concerns [Axios | The Conversation | Techcrunch | Washington Post ($)]

  • University of North Carolina School of Law did a moot court simulation of a high school student accused of robbery, where the ‘jury’ was composed of general GenAI chatbots: ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok [UNC Law | Above the Law | Bluesky thread - UNC Law Prof. Eric Muller]


Blockchain/digital currency

  • Changpeng Zhao, founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Biance, which has ties to the U.S. President’s family’s crypto firm, was pardoned last week following his conviction on money-laundering charges [WSJ ($) |


Long Reads

  • Macintosh, Kerry Lynn, ROGUE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, SCIENCE FICTION, AND THE LAW, 41 Santa Clara High Tech. L.J. 1 (2025) https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/chtlj/vol41/iss1/3

  • Mallory N. Blasingame, Taneya Y. Koonce, Annette M. Williams, Jing Su, Dario A. Giuse, Poppy A. Krump, Nunzia B. Giuse, Comparing Five Generative AI Chatbots’ Answers to LLM-Generated Clinical Questions with Medical Information Scientists’ Evidence Summaries, medRxiv 2025.09.24.25336199; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.24.25336199

  • Yuvaraj, Joshua, The Verification-Value Paradox: A Normative Critique of Gen AI in Legal Practice (October 18, 2025). The University of Auckland Faculty of Law Research Paper Series 2026, (2026) 52 Monash University Law Review (forthcoming), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5621550 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5621550

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