Influencer marketing drives real-world consumer behavior. In situations where followers believe an endorsement is genuine, it shapes how they spend money and what products they trust. That’s why the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulates influencer endorsements under its Endorsement Guides, which were updated in 2023 to clarify rules across social platforms.
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Technology
The Access Innovators: Legal Aid of North Carolina
Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋 I’m excited to share with you the 54th episode of the 2026 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!If you want to understand how AI…
Zero Sum Legal Publishing
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Another year, another change in legal information. The AALL Committee on Relations with Information Vendors (CRIV) did a nice write up of American Lawyer Media’s strategic changes. It is not the first legal publisher to (a) center its content exclusively on its own platform nor (b) to create all-or-nothing content…
From Legal Aid to LIT Lab: Quinten Steenhuis and the Builder’s Approach to AI
Quinten Steenhuis brings a builder’s mindset to legal innovation, rooted in early Indymedia activism where scavenged hardware became community infrastructure. That scrappy origin story carries through a dozen years of eviction defense at Greater Boston Legal Services, with a steady focus on tools that help people solve problems without waiting for a savior in a…
Purpose Versus Task: What Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Gets Right About the Future for Lawyers
Last week, a video clip of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made the rounds on social media. In it, he’s cooking outdoors, because apparently that’s what you do when you’re running an $3 trillion company, and casually dropping one of the most important frameworks for understanding professional survival in the age of AI.“The job of a…
Alexi Fires Back at Fastcase Lawsuit with Counterclaims Alleging Anticompetitive Conduct Following Clio’s $1B Acquisition
Alexi Technologies has filed its answer and counterclaim against Fastcase, vLex, and Clio, accusing the newly merged legal technology giant of manufacturing breach-of-contract allegations as a pretext to eliminate a competitor in the AI legal research market. In December, Fastcase, now owned by Clio, sued Alexi in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia,…
Check out our new Substack Page — Beyond the Model: How Legal AI Got Smart
[Ed. Note – We have launched The Geek in Review Substack page to put out content in a new way. One example of this content is a series of stories that I’ve been working on as I’ve learned more about how AI and automation tools are developed, and what works, and doesn’t work. As well…
Google’s biggest AI advantage is that Google already has all of your data!
Computerworld.com reported that “Google this week announced the public rollout of a beta Gemini feature called Personal Intelligence. It gives Gemini access to your Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube, and Google Search data, if you grant permission, which you can do individually (for example, you can grant permission for YouTube access but not Gmail).” The…
The GenAI Siren Song, the Danger of Enshittification and Tying Ourselves to a Mast
Ads are “like a last resort for us for a business model…ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling”. Sam Altman May 2024 as quoted in Hacker News.
“To start, we plan to test ads at the bottom of answers in ChatGPT when there’s a relevant sponsored product or service based on your current…
The Convergence: Where Immutable Ledgers Meet Intelligent Engines
I am absolutely thrilled to announce that I will be putting boots on the snowy ground in Switzerland next week for Davos Innovation Week. It is a privilege to join global leaders and forward-thinkers in such an inspiring setting to tackle the biggest technological challenges of our era.
On January 19, 2026, I will be…