Law Firm Partners: Meet Your AI “Twin”
Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease has teamed with Stanford Law School’s research lab to build AI "personas" that mimic 19 of its partners. The prototypes can pressure‑test legal arguments, redline documents, and provide counsel in a partner’s distinctive style, even at odd hours. Stanford’s liftlab, which also works with firms like Cleary Gottlieb and Paul Weiss, is creating open‑source tools that firms may later commercialize. The initiative signals a shift toward AI‑augmented legal practice and faster associate training.
Nonfiction Book Publishers Aren’t Remotely Ready for AI
Steven Rosenbaum’s forthcoming nonfiction title, *The Future of Truth*, relied on AI as a research partner, resulting in more than half a dozen misattributed or fabricated quotes. The New York Times investigation highlighted the error, exposing a broader industry weakness:...
US Healthcare Still Stupidly Expensive, with Pathetic Outcomes, Study Finds
The Commonwealth Fund’s 2026 report finds U.S. health care remains the most costly among high‑income nations while delivering the poorest health outcomes. Analyzing 19 OECD peers, the study highlights gaps in universal coverage, fragmented primary‑care networks, high out‑of‑pocket expenses, and...
So You Still Think You Can Google?
Google unveiled its biggest search UI overhaul in 25 years, adding an AI‑driven Overview that delivers concise answers and pre‑selects source material. The new layer still shows source links, but it decides which sites count, limiting the traditional list of...
Biased AI Writing Assistants Shift Users’ Attitudes on Societal Issues; Synthetic Sources?
Recent large‑scale experiments show AI writing assistants that supply biased autocomplete suggestions can nudge users’ opinions on societal topics toward the model’s stance. In a sample of 2,582 participants, post‑task surveys revealed measurable attitude convergence, yet most users did not...
Health Care Must Serve Patients, Not Corporations
The Searchlight Institute warns that corporate dominance is turning U.S. health care into a profit‑driven industry, inflating costs and denying care. It calls for three reforms: dismantling insurance monopolies, curbing corporate hospital pricing power, and unlocking innovative, consumer‑focused solutions. The...
SolarWinds Hack Was More Humiliating for the Government Than We Thought
New Bloomberg reporting, based on a Freedom of Information Act release of the Treasury inspector‑general’s redacted investigation, confirms that the Russian‑linked group behind the 2020 SolarWinds supply‑chain breach accessed email accounts inside the U.S. Treasury Department and could operate without...
Thousands of Journalists’ Data Exposed to Dark Web
Proton’s latest dark‑web scan uncovered more than 116,000 exposures tied to email accounts at The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. The trove includes over 12,000 plaintext passwords and 61,000 pieces of personally identifiable information,...
An Automatic Personalized End-to-End Legal Summarization System
The dissertation introduces APEELS, an Automatic Personalized End‑to‑End Legal Summarization system designed to turn lengthy court opinions into concise, user‑specific briefs. By merging traditional NLP techniques with large language models, the platform extracts salient arguments and tailors content to individual...
Access to Justice in the Age of AI: Evidence From U.S. Federal Courts
The study reveals that generative AI has driven a sharp rise in self‑represented federal civil filings, increasing from a long‑term average of 11 % to 16.8 % in FY 2025, especially in formulaic case types. Pro se cases now generate 158 % more docket...
Minters Breaks the Big Law Silence: AI Is Eating Graduate Jobs
Australian law firm MinterEllison announced it will reduce its 2025‑26 graduate intake by almost a third, accepting only 72 new lawyers. The cut reflects the firm’s response to artificial intelligence automating routine, lower‑level work traditionally performed by graduates. While client...
Three Search Alternatives to Google’s Brave New AI World
Google is rolling out an AI‑driven chatbot interface that replaces traditional search results, prompting criticism that the shift will cut click‑through traffic to publishers and increase misinformation. Analysts cite a recent study showing Google’s AI overviews are wrong about 10%...
The Hidden Way Dictatorships Are Shaping What AI Tells You
University researchers published a large‑scale analysis showing that large language models trained on Chinese‑language data often reproduce state‑aligned narratives. By comparing outputs across languages, the study found a measurable bias toward pro‑government phrasing in topics such as censorship, national security,...
Most U.S. Doctors Are Quietly Using This AI Tool. Few Patients Know About It
OpenEvidence, an AI chatbot for clinicians, has been adopted by roughly 65% of U.S. doctors, accounting for about 27 million clinical encounters in April 2026. The platform assists with real‑time medical knowledge, clinical decision‑making, discharge note drafting, and exam preparation. Dr....
All Those A.I. Note Takers?
AI‑powered note‑taking tools that automatically transcribe video‑call meetings are raising alarm among corporate lawyers. The transcripts capture every remark, including jokes and off‑the‑cuff statements, and can be stored by default in platforms such as Zoom or Teams. Lawyers warn that...