New guidance for the development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence replaces the existing Australian Government voluntary standard and calls into question the status of proposed mandatory guardrails. The Guidance for AI Adoption At the end of October, the Department of Industry, Science and Resources and the National AI Centre published new Guidance for AI Adoption
Like Lawyers In Pompeii: Is Legal Ignoring The Coming AI Infrastructure Crisis? (Part I)
While everyone debates AI hallucinations, we may be missing a bigger threat. The infrastructure powering AI may not be able to sustain everything vendors are promising.
Think about it: 26 major US utilities already have requests to supply an additional 711 gigawatts of new data center power. That’s nearly equal to the entire continental US
Reimagining Litigation Workflows through AI: A Panel Recorded Live at the Everlaw Summit
As new tools using generative AI promise to change the way we litigate and conduct discovery, what are the implications for day-to-day litigation workflows? On today’s episode of LawNext, we feature a conversation with three guests about how law firms are navigating the urgency around gen AI adoption while staying grounded in practical realities. LawNext
USPTO’s Revised Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions: What Changed, What Stayed, and What Practitioners Should Do Now
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued updated examination guidance (“New Guidance”) on inventorship in applications involving artificial intelligence (AI). The document rescinds and replaces the February 13, 2024 guidance and clarifies how inventorship should be determined when AI is used in the inventive process. The New Guidance jettisons the Pannu test for
New Inventorship Guidance on AI-Assisted Inventions: AI Can’t Be an Inventor, But AI Can Be a Tool in the Inventive Process (For Now…)
As readers may recall, in February 2024, the USPTO issued guidance on inventorship in AI-assisted inventions, which we wrote about here. On November 26, 2025, the USPTO rescinded that guidance and replaced it with new guidance.
By way of background, the February 2024 Guidance analyzed the naming of inventors for AI-assisted inventions using
The Access Pioneer: Brian Liu
Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋 I’m excited to share with you the 47th episode of the 2025 season of the LawDroid Manifesto podcast, where I will be continuing to interview key legal innovators to learn how they do what they do. I think you’re going to enjoy this one!I’ve been fortunate to know Brian Liu
Implementation of New UK Subscription Contract Regime Delayed
The authors wish to thank Sirrul Choudhury for his contributions to this post.
On 20 November 2025 the UK government confirmed that the secondary legislation which is required to clarify and bring into force the new consumer subscription contract regime under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCCA) [A New Era for
2025 has been a bad year for Digital Fraud!
DarkReading.com reported that “The global battle against digital fraud has become more fraught, with cybercriminals pivoting from high-volume, opportunistic attacks to sophisticated, AI-driven operations; they’re not just harder to detect, but can cause substantially more damage as well.” The November 26, 2025 article entitled “Digital Fraud at Industrial Scale: 2025 Wasn’t Great” (https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/digital-fraud-industrial-scale-2025)
Furlong, Matthews, and Sutherland: Truth Tellers, Rented Land, and 20 Years of the Clawbies
This week on The Geek in Review, we bring together a trio of Canadian legends from the legal web to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Canadian Law Blog Awards, better known as the Clawbies. Steve Matthews of STEM Legal and Slaw.ca, Sarah Sutherland of Parallax Information Consulting and former president and CEO
Thanksgiving Vibe-Coding and the Case for “Single-Serving” Legal Software
Way back in 2023, I thought it was amazing how I could use generative AI to streamline my Thanksgiving prep: I gave it my recipes, and it gave me a schedule. It was a static list—a text document that told me when to put the turkey in, when to swap in the stuffing, and so