The University of Michigan Law School has launched its AI Advisory Council, a distinguished group of alumni and leaders from across the legal profession, the technology sector, and academia. The council reflects Michigan Law’s growing engagement with artificial intelligence and its commitment to shaping how the legal profession adapts to rapidly evolving technologies. The launch of the AI Advisory Council
Clio Adds Agentic AI Capabilities to Clio Work, Also Launches Vincent Mobile App
Clio today announced two notable updates to its AI product line: the addition of agentic capabilities to Clio Work, and the launch of a standalone Vincent by Clio mobile app for iOS and Android. Agentic Clio Work When Clio CEO Jack Newton unveiled Clio Work at ClioCon last October — in a keynote that left
Why the Verdict on Social Media Defective Design Harming Children Gets the Instinct Right But the Law Wrong
A California jury’s decision last week to hold Meta and YouTube liable for harms to a young woman’s mental health has been greeted as a watershed moment. Child safety advocates have called it Big Tech’s “Big Tobacco moment.” Parents who lost children to what they attribute to social media addiction embraced outside the
Deepfakes: A Problem In Search Of A Problem?
asked a room full of lawyers at ABA TechShow how many had encountered deep fake evidence in litigation. Not one hand went up.
Is the deep fake threat a problem in search of a problem? Or are we in the same place we were with AI hallucinations before the first fake citation showed up in
The Synthetic Mirror – Reclaiming Trust in the Age of the Dead Internet Through Cryptographic Proofs
For decades, we viewed the internet as the ultimate frontier of human connection, a vast, digital nervous system connecting billions of minds. We believed that more content meant more knowledge, and more connectivity meant more truth. But as we stand in 2026, the mirror has cracked. The “Dead Internet Theory,” once a fringe conspiracy whispered
The Furlong And Patel TECHSHOW Keynote Bookends: Saying The Same Thing, Differently
Two TechShow keynotes. Two very different speakers. But the same conclusion.
Jordan Furlong opened TechShow by talking about the human lawyer: the one who walks through the valley with clients, who has their back, who builds the kind of trust AI can replace.
Nilay Patel by arrived at the same place from a different direction.
In AI-Powered Brand Deal, Harvey Partners with Yet Another Harvey — You Know, Its Other Namesake
Following its February news that it had entered into a brand partnership withj Gabriel Macht, who played Harvey Specter in the TV series Suits, the legal AI company Harvey said today that it has entered into another such partnership involving another iconic Harvey — only this time it is using AI to make the partnership
CARET Legal’s Spring 2026 Seasonal Launch is Here
By: Alan Fong, Chief Technology Officer, CARET
Today we’re launching not just new features, but a new way of delivering them.
The Spring 2026 Seasonal Launch is our biggest product launch yet, with updates across accounting, analytics, conflict checks, billing, and performance — strengthening the system firms depend on every day. It’s the first in a series of
What Scarcity Taught Computing, and AI Might Need to Relearn
“A larger context window can create the feeling that a cognitive problem has been solved, when sometimes all that has happened is that disorder has become harder to notice.”
I was in Silicon Valley recently for the initial meeting of the University of Michigan Law School AI Advisory Council. With a little free time around
The Quantum Cryptographic Singularity: 2026’s “Checkmate” Moment
If you’ve spent the last decade in the blockchain space, you’ve likely been lulled into a comfortable sense of “Quantum Procrastination.” The prevailing wisdom was that a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer (CRQC) was a “2040-something” problem, a massive engineering hurdle requiring tens of millions of physical qubits that felt more like science fiction than a