The FTC logged 235 HSR filings in May 2026 — a FY2026 high, the strongest month since December 2021, and a 58.8 percent jump over last year. With FY2026 volume running 22 percent ahead of FY2025 and a new form rulemaking in play, here is what the surge means for Second Request and eDiscovery planning.
HSR Filings Hit 235 in May 2026, the Highest Monthly Total Since December 2021 Read More »
The European Parliament delayed the EU AI Act’s high-risk rules to 2027 and 2028 and banned nudifier apps, leaving an August 2026 transparency deadline very much alive for compliance teams.
Parliament hits pause on high-risk AI rules and bans nudifier apps Read More »
At LegalTechTalk London, HaystackID’s John Wilson and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas’ Komal Gupta examined how deepfakes, business email compromise, and weak cyber governance can converge into multimillion-dollar losses. Their practical message: rehearse response plans, share cyber risk across functions, and use verbal-only challenge phrases before approving high-risk decisions.
At LegalTechTalk, the password is blueberry hot dogs Read More »
HaystackID introduced COMET, a recurring mobile-message capture tool, betting European regulators will press the off-channel enforcement that has cost U.S. firms billions since 2021. The launch anchors a wider European push at LegalTechTalk.
GitHub disabled 73 Microsoft repositories after the Miasma campaign re-compromised Azure’s durabletask project, while researchers separately documented Miasma payloads that can detonate when developers open affected repositories in AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor. Here is how the campaign spreads and what security, compliance and eDiscovery teams should do now.
When the worm targets the assistant: Miasma turns AI coding agents into the trigger Read More »
Professional buyers are letting AI build the shortlist before they ever call a vendor. Here is what the research shows about being seen, and how the rules of online visibility are changing.
AI is becoming an advisor, and it is rewriting how buyers find you Read More »
Anthropic expanded Project Glasswing beyond its roughly 50 initial partners to a new cohort of approximately 150 organizations in more than 15 countries, pushing its restricted Claude Mythos Preview model into power utilities, hospitals, telecoms and hardware vendors, and into the records-retention and cyber-insurance questions facing every CISO, general counsel and information governance lead.
An 18-year reconciled view places worldwide eDiscovery spending at $4.73 billion in 2012 and a projected $28.08 billion in 2030 – a near six-fold expansion that surfaces software’s quiet takeover, review’s declining task share, and the data-volume gap as the central structural force shaping discovery economics.
Market Intelligence: eDiscovery market growth from 2012 to 2030 Read More »
At the Dublin Tech Summit, two HaystackID forensics leaders argued that deepfakes have broken the 30-year-old integrity test for digital evidence, and laid out a 90-day plan for proving authenticity under the EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA and the proposed Rule 707.
When you can’t trust the evidence: deepfakes force a forensic reckoning in Dublin Read More »
“Ireland is the de facto regulator of AI globally.” Dr. Barry Scannell said it flatly, early on the main stage of the Dublin Tech Summit. The claim framed the discussion that followed, even as the panel turned quickly to the
Ireland’s AI regulator role gets a hard look at Dublin Tech Summit Read More »
HaystackID heads into the 2026 Dublin Tech Summit with an expanded European product set built around AI-driven privacy, DSAR response and deepfake forensics, and a regulatory thesis aimed squarely at the EU AI Act, NIS2 and DORA.
FutureLaw 2026 closed in Tallinn with the conversation getting harder. Uwais Iqbal’s hard truths from 23,000 adjudications and Chas Rampenthal’s reading of Texas Opinion 705 anchored a day-and-a-half of sessions on predictive justice, productized law, and transnational legal infrastructure.
FutureLaw 2026 closes: hard truths, the billable hour, and what gets built next Read More »
