AI

• The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the district court’s ruling in Thomsom Reuters v. Ross Intelligence in a currently-sealed opinion, affirming the summary judgment in favor of TR and rejecting Ross’s fair-use defense for using copyrighted material in Westlaw to train its AI-enhanced legal research database [ChatGPT Is Eating the World | Reuters | LawSites | Docket]

The Trump Administration this week:

• launched an AI chatbot and website called America.gov, meant to help users find government information and services across multiple agencies and websites [CNBC | Engadget | Fedscoop] | Reddit post | USA Today | White House fact sheet]

• announced this week a “morally binding” accord signed by the President and major AI developers — including the CEOs and Presidents of Anthropic, Google, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI, SpaceX — to ‘self-police’ AI development [AP News | IAPP | NY Times ($) | PBS | Accord text]

• issued an executive order requiring all federal agencies to substitute the term “super intelligence” for artificial intelligence [CNBC | Politico | Executive Order]

• Florida’s Attorney General has filed for a temporary injunction against OpenAI in state court to curtail the development of new models without independent review and ban minors from using ChatGPT [ Politico | NBC (Miami) | CBS12 (West Palm Beach) | Plaintiff’s Motion for Temporary Injunction]

• Clio has acquired Learned Hand, a start-up that has made an AI platform for judicial and court users [ABA Journal ($) | Business Insider | Learned Hand announcement]

• Nvidia announced that it has a new security platform for developers to test and evaluate AI agents that prevent the agents from “hacking” live Internet sites [ABC News | AP News | Reuters ($)]

• Related: a non-profit group is suing OpenAI in San Francisco Superior Court over the Hugging Face hack, arguing that OpenAI’s actions violate the state’s
  Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act and Unfair Competition Law [Ars Technica | Axios | CNBC | Complaint]

• From The Verge [$]: OpenAI agents resorted to “brute-force methods” to access data on a UN agency website

• UK students and educators are pushing back to proposed changes in the license terms for plagiarism detection software Turnitin that could allow the company to use student work to train AI models [BBC ($) | Epigram | Yahoo! Finance]

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a raft of new AI bills, including:

• SB 574, which prohibits attorneys and arbitrators from sharing sensitive client information in AI systems that do not protect such information as well as requiring attorneys to verify “accuracy of generative artificial intelligence outputs”

• the “No Robo Bosses Act,” which requires human review of AI-recommended decisions regarding employee discipline or termination

[Cal Matters | CNBC | Governor’s Office press release | KQED | Blood in the Machine ($)]

Fabrication Follies

• Gayathri vs Guru Reddy Raju S N - Bangalore District Court [Tweet | Document]

• New Mexico v. Sandoval [Instagram video of attorney before the New Mexico Supreme Court re: AI-generated falsities in filings]

Blockchain/Digital Currency

• Gov. Newsom has signed a bill that prevents state public officials from issuing their own memecoins [Coindesk | Engadget]

• Visa, Mastercard, Shopify, Coinbase and Stripe are part of a consortium that has issued a stablecoin called OUSD, pegged to the U.S. dollar [Bloomberg ($) | Open Standards announcement | Yahoo! Finance]

• The SEC plans to propose a new rule to “provide a tailored framework for the custody of crypto assets for registered investment advisers and regulated funds” [Coindesk | SEC press release]

Miscellaneous

• From Ars Technica: “The Trump administration is seeking to join Elon Musk’s appeal against a €120 million EU fine of the billionaire’s social media platform X, the latest escalation in the transatlantic clash over Brussels’ efforts to rein in US tech companies”

• The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against Kalshi, finding that state are not pre-empted from enforcing sports gambling laws against the prediction market operator in regards to its sports-events contracts [Ars Technica | Courthouse News | Sheppard blog post | Opinion]

Long Reads

• Yiqian Huang, Shuyuan Zheng, Qianying Liu, et al, "When Do LLMs Apply the Wrong Law? Diagnosing LLM Failures in Temporal Legal Reasoning" (2026) arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.14610

• A. Feder Cooper, Mark A. Lemley, Allison Casasola, et al, “Extracting memorized pieces of (copyrighted) books
  from open-weight language models” (v. 6 - Jul. 20, 2026) https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12546 [Companion website]

• Patty Liu, Dominik Stammbach, and Peter Henderson, "Who Checks the Citations? Benchmarking Legal Hallucination Detection" (2026) arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.21155