AI

• A federal magistrate judge recently amended her protective order to say that a pro se plaintiff’s use of GenAI tools is protected by work-product privilege but the litigant had to disclose the product(s) they uploaded confidential information into [LogikCull blog post | Womble Bond Dickinson blog post | Docket | Order]

Two musicians are dealing with scams involving AI-generated versions of their music/voices:

• Murphy Campbell [The Verge ($) | Rolling Stone ($) | Vinyl Culture]

• Greta Morgan

• Related: Taylor Swift has filed trademarks on her voice and likeness to try to prevent AI scams

• The Chinese government has blocked the acquisition of Manus, an agentic AI developer, by Meta [CNN | NPR | Wall St Journal ($)]

• Faculty at Arizona State University are speaking out about a new platform that takes course material uploaded to Canvas and generates short-form content modules via GenAI tools [404 Media ($) | Inside Higher Ed]

• Dennis Kennedy has a blog post talking about how “constraints” by AI developers can affect legal work without attorneys realizing it

• From LegalQuants: “Is Claude for Word actually useful for legal?”

Fabrication Follies

• Former AUSA Rudy Renfer has been publicly reprimanded by a federal magistrate judge for including AI fabrications in a brief in Fivehouse v. Dept. of Defense [Courthouse News | Docket | Order]

• Ibach v. Stewart (AL Supreme Court) [Bloomberg Law News | Docket | Opinion]

• Jiminez-Fogarty v. Fogarty et al [Docket | Opinion and Order]

• Leafwell, Inc. v. The Doc App, Inc. [Docket | Opinion and Order]

• Williams v. Honl (OR Appeals Court) [Reuters ($) | Opinion | NOTICE REGARDING COURT IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS]

Miscellaneous

• Maryland’s governor Wes Moore has signed into law a ban on dynamic pricing by grocers and 3rd-party delivery services [Gov.’s Office - press release | HB0895- Bill Text | WYPR]

• The FCC has expanded its ban of new foreign-made wifi routers to include portable Wifi hotspots [Mashable | PC Magazine]

• The Supreme Court held oral arguments this week on geofence warrants [NPR | SCOTUSblog]

• A special forces soldier who participated in the raid in Venezuela to extract Nicholas Maduro has been arrested and charged for using classified information to net $400K on Polymarket in event contracts related to US military action and Maduro’s ouster [NY Times | DOJ Indictment | Docket]

• From The Telegraph (UK): “French police are investigating suspicions that a hairdryer may have been used to tamper with official weather readings to make thousands of dollars in Polymarket bets”

Long Reads

• Lerchner, Alexander, The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness (Mar. 10, 2026) https://philpapers.org/rec/LERTAF [Summary @ 404 Media ($)]

• Nielsen, Aileen, AI’S CATEGORICAL FAIRNESS, 5 American Journal of Law and Equality 89 (2025) doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/AJLE.a.5

• Shaw, Steven D and Nave, Gideon, Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender (January 11, 2026) https://ssrn.com/abstract=6097646 [Summary @ Ars Technica]

• Xu, J., Li, G. and Jiang, J.Y., 2025, October. Ai self-preferencing in algorithmic hiring: Empirical evidence and insights. In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 2757-2758) https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462