Managing AI safety – Critical steps forward
In a fascinating article in The Times last week (6 December) one of the dangers of the latest generation of Gen AI models is thrown into sharp focus.
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NGAGE’s Paul Henry On How Law Firms Can Use Behavioral Analytics to Drive Tech Adoption
You cannot have innovation without adoption. That was a theme we heard repeatedly when we attended the Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal conference in New York City in October. Our guest today, Paul Henry, would take that a step further and say you do not really have adoption without engagement.
Screens Publishes Redlining GenAI Accuracy
As the movement to bring more transparency and understanding to legal genAI accuracy grows, US-based Screens has published another in-depth performance study
Everything’s Changing All At Once–or Is It? We Recap the Biggest Changes for the Legal Industry in 2024
When you look across all of the Barometer briefings from 2024, some key themes emerge, and you can even see how they shift over just 12 months. I’ll explore some of these themes, and offer some thoughts on how things may continue to evolve in 2025.
As AI-Generated Fraud Rises, Financial Companies Face a Long Cybersecurity Battle
The use of generative AI to create highly realistic synthetic video, audio, photos or text to circumvent security measures installed by financial services is on the rise and threatens to cost companies billions of dollars, according to an alert recently issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
The use of generative AI to create highly realistic synthetic video, audio, photos or text to circumvent security measures installed by financial services is on the rise and threatens to cost companies billions of dollars, according to an alert recently issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
New Georgetown University Artificial Intelligence Governance Tracker
Georgetown University has launched AGORA (AI Governance and Regulatory Archive), a "collection of AI-relevant laws, regulations, standards, and other governance documents from the United States and around the world".
Law firm’s AI agent acting “like junior paralegal”
A venture capital-backed law firm’s AI agent is handling both legal and non-legal work for its lawyers, its founder has said – like creating files, drawing up ‘to do’ lists and drafting emails.
Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft
The project’s leader says that allowing everyone to access the collection of public-domain books will help “level the playing field” in the AI industry.
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Inside the launch — and future — of ChatGPT
"OpenAI worried that ChatGPT would be a dud two years ago. Now, the stakes have never been higher."
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I saw Google’s plan to put Android on your face
"I demoed Google’s new Android XR platform, Samsung’s Project Moohan, and prototype smart glasses. I felt as close to Tony Stark in a controlled demo as I’ll ever be."
Replacing Judges With AI And Other Stupid Ideas
Elon’s got some thoughts on the judicial system.
Privacy Commissioner announces LinkedIn will pause training AI with data of Canadian members
Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne announced this week that LinkedIn has agreed to voluntarily pause using the personal information of its Canadian members to train generative artificial intelligence (AI) models.
Legal Drafting Startup DocDraft AI Launches Drafting, Attorney Service Platform
The platform is focused on serving the legal needs of clients who may be in search of legal professional help and resources for self-representation.
Luminance Launches New Contract Negotiation Tool Lumi Go
The new product gives access to some Luminance functions to customers’ counterparties.
Press Release: LexisNexis Unveils Nexis Data+, a Single-API Platform Giving Organizations Unprecedented Access to Gen AI-Approved Licensed News Content and High-Quality Company Data
"Organizations can now import LexisNexis’ industry-leading collection of normalized, enriched data and trusted, credible content into existing tools and platforms to power AI applications and improve data-driven decision-making"
Washington Post Leverages ‘AI’ To Undermine History And Make Search Less Useful
"While “AI” (language learning models) certainly could help journalism, the fail upward brunchlords in charge of most modern media outlets instead see the technology as a way to cut corners, undermine labor, badly automate low-quality, ultra-low effort, SEO-chasing clickbait, and rush undercooked solutions to nonexistent problems to market under the pretense of progress"
Dow Jones negotiates AI usage agreements with nearly 4,000 news publishers
Among the thousands of publishers who signed the agreements are The Associated Press, The Washington Post, and the Swiss outlet AWP Finanznachrichten.
Is AI Worth the Risks in Criminal Justice System?
Developers are finding new ways to deploy technology in the criminal justice system, but some experts have reservations about the technology’s decision-making abilities.
Double Whammy: SixFifty’s AI Tool + Epiq’s New AI Abilities
SixFifty, a HR compliance system backed by Wilson Sonsini, has announced the launch of ‘SixFifty AI’, a research tool that increases the accessibility of the company’s major employment database.
Product Walk Through: Legatics – Transaction Management
This week’s Product Walk Through is with Legatics, the transaction management platform that transforms how law firms collaborate and close deals.
SixFifty Launches AI-Powered Tool to Provide Plain-English Answers to Employment Law Questions
SixFifty, a company that helps businesses automate employment law compliance and documentation, today announced the launch of SixFifty AI, an AI-powered research tool that builds on SixFifty’s database of employment law information to provide companies with plain-English answers to employment law questions.
The next wave of AI: what’s really coming in 2025
The most exciting battle in artificial intelligence isn’t unfolding in corporate labs; it’s happening in the open-source community.
LexisNexis Launches Data+ API For AI Training
"LexisNexis has announced the launch of Nexis Data+, which provides ‘direct access to an extensive repository of trusted, high-quality data through a single application programming"
Communication, AI, and the Human Side of Law: Insights from Smokeball’s Jane Oxley
"This week we welcome Jane Oxley, Chief Revenue Officer at Smokeball, to discuss the pivotal role of communication in legal organizations and how AI is transforming legal practice management."
Perplexity partners with global publishers as AI’s use of news content faces legal pressure
The Decoder Perplexity AI has added more than a dozen international media partners to its publisher program. As part of these partnerships, Perplexity will share advertising revenue with publishers and give them access to its APIs, developer tools, and free Enterprise Pro licenses.
In Notable E-Discovery News, Leading AI Scientist Dave Lewis Joins Nextpoint to Lead AI Development
Dave Lewis, a data scientist whose four-decade career has established him as a pioneer in artificial intelligence and data analytics in law, has joined the e-discovery and litigation management company Nextpoint as chief scientific officer, where he will lead efforts to develop the next generation of machine learning and generative AI tools throughout the Nextpoint
Innovative law group looks to upset competition with AI pricing
A legal business has pledged only to charge clients a “small mark-up” on services provided by AI, predicting that other law firms would "hate" it doing this.
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to
“There are several types of work where AI can be particularly useful, given the current capabilities and limitations of LLMs. Though this list is based in science, it draws even more from experience"
There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI
“I can now say with absolute confidence that many AI systems have been trained on TV and film writers’ work. Not just on The Godfather and Alf, but on more than 53,000 other movies and 85,000 other TV episodes"