September’s 193 preliminary HSR transactions closed fiscal 2026 at 2,555, the largest total since fiscal 2022. With deal signings slowing, a proposed record $250 million HSR penalty and the return of targeted second requests, here is what the numbers mean for eDiscovery providers and second request compliance work in 2027.
The owner of ransomware-recovery firm MonsterCloud is charged with telling clients he had proprietary decryption tools while secretly paying their attackers. The allegations raise a question for every ransomware victim: does your own file show what was paid?
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The Wikimedia Foundation says agents it believes OpenAI operates made unapproved edits, probed its Etherpad and sent heavy traffic to its data services. Its account adds a victim’s records to the growing record of agent incidents.
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The Cyber Law Toolkit’s 2026 update adds three scenarios: an artificial intelligence cyber defender that spoofs the red cross emblem, peacetime duties to protect civilians from cyber harm, and a harassment and deepfake campaign analyzed as torture.
Cyber Law Toolkit tests AI deception, cyber torture and peacetime cyber duties Read More »
HSR reported transactions reached 271 in August 2026, a fiscal-year high and 41.9% above August 2025. With fiscal 2026 at 2,362 and third-quarter deal volume falling sharply, here is what the gap between filings and signings means for second request planning.
Two Boston University law professors have proposed a three-part test for AI slop that turns on effort, imposition and domain degradation rather than quality. It arrives five weeks after EU and California disclosure duties took effect on the same day.
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EDRM published the final EDRM 2.0 model Tuesday and pointed readers to the trustees’ written answers to public comment. EDRM grouped the submissions into eight sections; the trustees say one changed the diagram. The reasoning behind the seven no-change responses is the most useful thing in the package.
EDRM published its new map and the reasoning behind what it kept Read More »
Berlin refused an extortion demand on Aug. 28, and a ransomware crew posted an auction afterward. If the files publish, U.S. counsel will find that Model Rule 4.4(b) covers only what was inadvertently sent, and that the rest turns on a choice-of-law provision that may not point at home.
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HSR reported transactions reached 233 in July 2026, a 20.7% jump from June and 29.4% above July 2025, lifting the preliminary fiscal 2026 total to 2,091 with two months to go. This month’s report pairs the FTC’s count with the fiscal 2025 annual report’s finalized data, a proposed final judgment carrying a record $12 million in HSR penalties, the DOJ’s optional Expedited Consideration process for second requests, second-quarter GDP growth held at 1.5% in the BEA’s second estimate, and a record $2.8 trillion first half for global M&A.
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The EU’s e-Evidence Regulation became fully applicable Aug. 18, putting covered providers on 10-day and eight-hour production clocks backed by penalties of up to 2 percent of total worldwide annual turnover for the preceding financial year. Here is what changed, where the gaps are, and what legal, privacy and security teams should do first.
Two House committees asked DoorDash for seven categories of records by August 14, covering every Chinese-developed AI model it has evaluated or used since January 2025. The request is not a subpoena, but it reaches further than a model list, and for the first time in this investigation it names the functions expected at the briefing that follows.
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