Earlier this week, I appeared before the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications as part of its study on AI regulation. This follows earlier appearances before the House of Commons Heritage and Industry committees on the same issue. The hearing led to robust exchanges with multiple Senators on the intersection of AI policy with
The NewYorkTimes.com reported that “Mythos has triggered emergency responses from central banks and intelligence agencies globally, as Anthropic decides who has access to the powerful model.” The April 22, 2026 article entitled ” Anthropic’s New A.I. Model Sets Off Global Alarms” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/technology/anthropics-mythos-ai.html) included the comments from Reporters Paul Mozur and Adam Satariano:
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While there may be growth opportunities in blue-collar industries, you don’t suddenly become a plumber or electrician. It’s a long learning process that doesn’t scale well for that many unemployed people. This is reskilling at a massive, rapid scale, but we have to admit that whatever reskilling we’ve done in the past hasn’t been that
Risk of Agentic AI in legal is reshaping governance—learn how in-house legal teams can move beyond checklists to build real AI oversight capability.
The NewYorkTimes.com asked this question “Artificial intelligence tools are making it faster than ever to reproduce creative work. Does copyright even matter anymore?” The April 22, 2026 article entitled ” Anthropic’s Leaked Code Tests Copyright Challenges in A.I. Era” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/technology/anthropic-code-leak-copyright.html) included these comments from Reporter Meaghan Tobin:
Sigrid Jin, a student at the
Next week, on April 28 and 29, I’m hosting the LawDroid AI Conference 2026, and I want you there!This is the third year we’ve done this, and every year I’m amazed by the community that shows up. Lawyers, legal aid advocates, court innovators, technologists, professors, and people who simply refuse to be left behind by
Legal AI has made lawyers faster. Faster contract review. Smarter redlines. Drafting assistance that saves real time. For the most part, legal AI products have been built around lawyers: how they work and how to make that work better. This isn’t surprising when you consider whose budget pays for legal AI. But the first friction
Billing. The bane of a lawyer’s existence. The process is clunky, error-prone, and ripe for effective AI disruption. Elite’s new Validate tool could mean more effective billing guideline compliance, better client communications, and, most interestingly, flip the switch on the leverage third party bill reviewers have, reducing write-offs.
My new post for Above the Law.
After several days of debate in which the opposition to lawful access seemed half-hearted at best, the Conservatives woke up on Monday. MP after MP rose to argue, correctly, that Bill C-22 represents an unprecedented surveillance threat: mandated metadata retention (including location information) for up to a year, security vulnerabilities built into the interception
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Over the past several days I’ve been digging into the Claude for Word add-in, and the headline finding surprised me. On document-intensive legal work