Presidential Rug-Pulling?
A small newsletter on legaltech
AI
The Southern California chapter of AALL held an “AI Smackdown,” comparing Lexis’ Protege, Westlaw’s CoCounsel, and vLex’s Vincent3, that has been written up by Richard Tromans of Artificial Lawyer and Bob Ambrogi of LawSites [Ed. note: I was there!]
Also from the Artificial Lawyer: “How would you define ‘accuracy’ when it comes to AI?”
The British law firm Linklaters also did a test of GenAI capabilities for answering legal questions, finding that there’s been significant improvement but it “still performed below the level of a qualified lawyer”
Responsible AI in Legal Services (aka RAILS) has a number of one-page use cases for GenAI in legal practice
The State Bar of Texas has issued an ethics opinion on the use of GenAI tools for legal practice under the state’s “Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct”
Someone has provided some deep-dive guidance on how to prompt effectively for OpenAI’s o1 model (if you have access, of course)
From Carolyn Elefant [LinkedIn post]: How OpenAI’s Deep Research helps with legal scholarship (and ways that it doesn’t)
DeepSeek has been suspended in South Korea by the country’s data protection commission - banning all new downloads of the app
Blockchain/Digital Currency
The President of Argentina is facing calls for impeachment over crypto fraud allegations [NBC News | BBC | CoinDesk | Molly White]
Data Privacy
From Wired [$]: “Google Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic Diseases - Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found”
Long Reads
Surden, Harry, Artificial Intelligence and Law – An Overview of Recent Technological Changes in Large Language Models and Law (February 12, 2025). 96 Colorado Law Review 376 (2025), Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5135305
AI Action Summit, International AI Safety Report (January 2025), https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/679a0c48a77d250007d313ee/International_AI_Safety_Report_2025_accessible_f.pdf?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email