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

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

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

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

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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eDiscovery and Information Governance Must Read

DOJ and DHS issue trade fraud guide as task force tally exceeds $1 billion

The Justice Department and Homeland Security released a joint trade fraud enforcement guide as their task force’s combined tally of recoveries, penalties, forfeitures and charged losses exceeded $1 billion, giving importers and compliance teams a clearer view of federal enforcement priorities.

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Cyber Discovery and Cybersecurity

The negotiator was the leak: insider who betrayed ransomware victims gets 70 months

Federal prosecutors called Angelo Martino a double agent: hired to negotiate with BlackCat, he armed the attackers with his clients’ insurance limits while five victims paid $75.3 million, court records show. His 70-month sentence puts the breach-response supply chain on notice.

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AI and Advanced Technologies Must Read

Prompt privacy: new scholarship argues GenAI review instructions are attorney work product

Tara Emory and Maura Grossman argue that GenAI TAR prompts refined through iterative testing can embody attorney work product and should rarely face compelled disclosure, with validation metrics carrying the transparency load instead.

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Reports and Research

Complete look: 2025 to 2030 eDiscovery market size mashup

The worldwide eDiscovery market reaches an estimated 19.61 billion dollars in 2025 and a projected 28.08 billion dollars by 2030, a reconciled 7.44 percent CAGR. Underneath the aggregate trajectory, data grows at roughly 35 percent annually, compounding into a 3.13-times productivity-per-dollar mandate that reshapes where eDiscovery dollars flow at the segment, task, and channel levels through 2030.

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