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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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.
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.
Next-generation CaseBot turns case data into instant, defensible insights Read More »
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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On a preliminary record, the Ninth Circuit made the user, not Perplexity, the party accessing Amazon under the CFAA and California’s CDAFA. The records of that access can sit partly with an outside operator that no litigation hold reaches by default.
Ninth Circuit vacates Amazon injunction; AI agent logs emerge as eDiscovery issue Read More »
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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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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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
“Search, Forward” with AI: Court Approves AI-Assisted Review Workflow for eDiscovery Read More »
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.
Generative AI is narrowing the chasm between law and medicine — and reshaping what ABA Rule 1.1 competence requires of counsel handling clinical records, malpractice defense, and healthcare investigations.
When the lawyer needs a translator: GenAI as a bridge between law and medicine Read More »
Europe’s AI Act rewrite has cleared final political approval. The Council approved the digital omnibus on June 29, confirming delayed high-risk AI deadlines while leaving the broader Aug. 2, 2026 application date and AI Office enforcement role firmly in view.
Council clears the AI Act rewrite as the enforcement clock keeps ticking Read More »
HaystackID advanced to Band 2 in the 2026 Chambers Crisis & Risk Management Guide and maintained Band 2 in the Chambers Litigation Support Guide, extending a nine-year recognition run. The rankings reflect growing overlap between cyber incident response, privacy review, regulatory disclosure and litigation support, as legal and compliance teams increasingly seek providers that can combine speed, technical depth and defensible workflows under one roof.
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