Welcome, Class of 2029!
A small newsletter about legaltech and techlaw
AI
Post-mortems of the OpenAI incident, involving its agents hacking Hugging Face, continue to roll in [The Verge | Wired ($) | METR | CNBC]
Legora has partnered with Google on Google’s “Gemini Enterprise for Legal” platform [Legora press release | Law360 ($) | Google Cloud announcement | LegalTechTalk | Reuters]
From 404 Media [$]: “Subtlefakes: Slightly Altered Non-consensual AI Images Are Taking Over X”
Google is paying US$10 million dollars for “emails, calendar info, chats, documents, spreadsheets and other business data” from Spirit Airlines, excluding passenger data, with plans to use the data to train large language models [Axios | Time Magazine | Wired ($)]
The House Office of Legislative Counsel is dealing a wave of AI-generated legislative proposals, with “many of them riddled with errors and shoddy language” [Politico | MS Now | TaxProf Blog]
A Kentucky appeals court upheld the criminal contempt ruling of a lower court against a woman who submitted AI-generated deepfake evidence in her divorce and custody case against her ex-husband [Adams v. Anderson - Opinion]
Fabrication Follies
Capital Standard LLC et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association [FL District Court of Appeals - Opinion]
Data Privacy
From Fashion Times (UK): “A woman has called out a doctor for wearing Meta smart glasses during a medical consultation in which she was required to remove her clothes, sparking a heated debate over patient privacy and the use of camera-equipped technology in healthcare settings”
Miscellaneous
Kalshi is partnering with the Weather Channel to provide verification on weather and climate trades [WSJ ($) | Kalshi press release]
A bill that is meant to curtail undue influence of litigation funders over the actions and judgments of attorneys has passed the California Legislature and is awaiting Governor Newsom’s signature/veto [CA Legislative Info website | Law360 ($) | CalMatters | Holland & Knight blogpost]
Long Reads
Judge Xavier Rodriguez, Judge Allison Goddard, Maura R. Grossman, Judge Samuel Thumma and Judge Scott Schlegel, The Judicious Judge's Guide to Generative Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models, Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, Vol. 28, No. 2 (forthcoming May 2027) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7354578
Report of MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training, MIT (Aug. 13, 2026) https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
Michelle Krensh-Krendler, David Szakonyi, and Michael Hornsby, Classifying Insider Trading Risk, Anti-Corruption Data Collective (August 2026) https://acdatacollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/ACDC-Classifying-Insider-Trading-Risk.pdf [Summaries: Reuters ($) | readwrite]
