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July HSR reported transactions climb to 233 as fiscal 2026 passes 2,000 with two months to spare

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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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AI and Advanced Technologies Must Read

Next-generation CaseBot turns case data into instant, defensible insights

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HaystackID’s next-generation CaseBot moves beyond conversational search to deliver structured, evidence-backed case analysis. Powered by agentic retrieval and Specialized Skill Agents, the platform generates fact narratives, chronologies, deposition kits, claim analyses and record checks directly from case data, with every factual statement linked to source evidence.

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Data Privacy and Protection Must Read

The eight-hour clock starts today: EU e-evidence orders now land on covered U.S. providers’ EU addressees

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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.

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AI and Advanced Technologies Editors Pick

DoorDash AI inquiry turns model selection into a governance test

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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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Cyber Discovery and Cybersecurity

Recent AI evaluation incidents expose gaps in containment, configuration and evidence

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Read the recent AI evaluation disclosures involving four labs as one repeated failure and you get it wrong. A novel exploit, a misconfiguration and a leaky allowlist are different problems, but they share a weak layer, an unanswered liability question, and a preservation gap that lands on legal and information governance teams.

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AI and Advanced Technologies

California’s AI Transparency Act arrives alongside Europe’s Article 50

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California’s AI Transparency Act became operative Aug. 2, the same day most of the EU’s Article 50 duties began applying. The disclosure duties are live, the platform stripping ban waits until 2027, and the provenance disclosures both regimes require can be lost in routine eDiscovery processing.

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Cyber Discovery and Cybersecurity Must Read

Restore the controller, risk losing evidence: federal water guidance leaves the sequence open

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Federal water sector alerts tell utilities to inspect compromised PLC environments and restore safely. They leave the authority, method and sequence for preserving potentially relevant controller evidence largely to local response plans.

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AI and Advanced Technologies

“Search, Forward” with AI: Court Approves AI-Assisted Review Workflow for eDiscovery

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In a landmark eDiscovery decision, a federal court approved an AI-assisted review workflow and declined to require extensive disclosure of validation metrics. The ruling in Schulte v. LinkedIn signals growing judicial acceptance of AI in document review while reinforcing the importance of proportionality, reasonableness, and carefully negotiated ESI protocols

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Reports and Research

June HSR reported transactions fall to 193 as preliminary FY2026 total reaches 1,858

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June HSR reported transactions fall to 193 as preliminary FY2026 total reaches 1,858 ComplexDiscovery Staff The FTC’s Premerger Notification Office recorded 193 HSR-reported transactions in June 2026, a 17.9% step down from May’s 235 — the highest monthly total since

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