As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies continue to advance and states increasingly pass legislation to regulate AI development and use, Congress and the White House are proposing comprehensive nationwide laws.
New proposals from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) offer comprehensive approaches to centralizing AI regulation within
Context is the foundation of useful legal AI
The most important information in a legal case lives across the matter and the firm: the documents, the emails, the timeline, the jurisdiction, the client’s history, and the firm’s own work product. Legal AI without access to all of it is working blind, only as good as
BankInfoSecurity.com reported that Subra Kumaraswamy, CISO at Visa said “Trust remains central to global payments as artificial intelligence reshapes cybersecurity and commerce. Organizations must secure transactions while adapting to faster, more complex threats…” The March 23, 2026 interview entitled “AI Redefines Trust in Global Payments” (https://tinyurl.com/3ckw3y6d) included these comments:
AI has long supported
I’ve been discussing Agentic AI for some time now. It started off more in theory then it got very practical with a recent podcast about Agent platforms. Today we have a real example of Agentic AI in practice in the insurance industry. Artem leads a company that is proving the value of autonomous agents in
Smokeball, the cloud-based practice management platform serving small to mid-sized law firms, and Thomson Reuters announced a strategic partnership today that will embed Thomson Reuters’ CoCounsel Legal AI into Smokeball’s practice management software — a combination the companies say brings together deep legal content and advanced AI capabilities with broad practice management functionality in a
The legal profession crossed a significant threshold in 2025: For the first time, more lawyers are using generative AI than not, even as firm leaders express widespread concern about the technology’s reliability, according to the 2025 State of the Legal Industry report released today by SurePoint Technologies. The tension between adoption and apprehension defines the
Computerworld.com reported that “OpenAI is planning to almost double its workforce from about 4,500 to 8,000 employees by the end of 2026. The move comes as OpenAI sharpens its focus on scaling and monetising ChatGPT for enterprise use amid intensifying competition from Anthropic and Google.” The March 23, 2026 article entitled “OpenAI to double workforce,
The Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology is one of several House and Senate committees currently grappling with legal, regulatory and policy challenges and opportunities presented by AI. I appeared before the committee yesterday alongside Yoshua Bengio and Colin Bennett. Bengio unsurprisingly garnered the lion’s share of the questions, but the committee did give
Intelligence is Raw Material. Protocol is the Product.
We often confuse the power of a new tool with the effectiveness of its application.The giants of the AI industry have provided us with a magnificent “Power Grid.” They have given us raw, unmanaged intelligence at a scale previously unimagined. But we must be clear-eyed about one
Seyfarth’s 2026 Commercial Litigation Outlook reinforces a key reality for IP practitioners: artificial intelligence is not just driving innovation—it is fundamentally reshaping how intellectual property is created, protected, and challenged. This year, Seyfarth’s Intellectual Property team contributed insights focused on the growing risks to trade secrets, ownership rights, and proprietary information in an AI-driven environment.