Calling it “the industry’s first scaled agentic AI tool for fact investigation and e-discovery,” DISCO today announced an agentic AI enhancement to its Cecilia Q&A tool, which the company says is designed to handle large-scale e-discovery matters with millions of documents and terabytes of data. The Austin-based legal technology company’s new tool adds what it describes as
Moving Beyond Prompts to Protocol-Governed AI
I have just posted a trio of new research white papers to SSRN. These represent the latest output from the Kennedy Idea Propulsion Laboratory and the culmination of my work over the last month to move AI beyond “utilitarian drift.” This is the cycle of incremental efficiency gains that ultimately generates no transformative insight.To
The Clarity Catalyst: Tara Waters
Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋 I’m excited to share with you the 57th episode 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!If you want to understand how to guide law firms through
Human-in-the-Loop Is Systems Stewardship
An investigation into why serious AI work depends less on clever prompts and more on defending invariants, boundaries, and human judgment.At the end of a long, technical AI session this week, something became clear to me: human-in-the-loop is being misunderstood in ways that matter.The issue wasn’t whether the system could generate outputs quickly or fluently.
DISCO Launches Scaled Agentic AI Tool for Large Discovery and Fact Investigation Matters
Calling it “the industry’s first scaled agentic AI tool for fact investigation and e-discovery,” DISCO today announced an agentic AI enhancement to its Cecilia Q&A tool, which the company says is designed to handle large-scale e-discovery matters with millions of documents and terabytes of data. The Austin-based legal technology company’s new tool adds what it
Midpage Goes Native: Legal Research Inside Claude and ChatGPT, with Otto von Zastrow
A fresh Anthropic announcement set off a week of market jitters and existential questions: what happens when the big model shops ship “legal productivity” features and the public markets flinch. This week, we bring Otto von Zastrow back for a rapid-response conversation, with a front-row view from New York and a blunt take: software grows
OpenClaw has humans taking orders from bots!
Computerworld.com reported that “OpenClaw connects to large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, the Pi coding agent, OpenRouter, and local models running via Ollama to understand instructions and perform actions. Users, who have to bring their own paid accounts to some of these services, can direct the agent to clear
I’ve Taken Steps To Protect My Client’s Documents: But What Happens Post-Production?
You produce your client’s documents to the other side during discovery. But how confident are you that opposing counsel won’t end up feeding your sensitive documents into ChatGPT or a similar LLM? With AI agents proliferating and integration everywhere, post-production document security has become the potentially problematic. We can control our own shop, but once
No ads in Claude chats!
Computerworld.com reported “Anthropic will not put ads in conversations with its AI assistant Claude. It wants ads nowhere near its AI-generated content. “Even ads that don’t directly influence an AI model’s responses and instead appear separately within the chat window would compromise what we want Claude to be: a clear space to think and work,”
Today’s Legaltech Week: The Claude-pocalypse, AI Agents Gone Wild, and Much More – All Live at 3 ET
As I wrote earlier this week, it was the shot heard ’round the world, as AI company Anthropic, developer of Claude, launched a legal app and seemingly caused legal tech stocks to plummet. Meanwhile, AI agents now have their own social network, Moltbook, while another new site is enabling them to rent humans to do