The e-discovery company Reveal Data recently announced that it will launch its new generative AI-powered document review platform, called “aji,” in late September. Notably, the company said it is offering full access to the platform at no cost through Dec. 31, in order to enable “the entire legal community to explore and master the next
NIST Welcomes Comments for AI Standards Zero Drafts Project
On July 29, 2025, the National Institute of Standards & Technology (“NIST”) unveiled an outline for preliminary, stakeholder-driven standards, known as a “zero draft”, for AI testing, evaluation, verification and validation (“TEVV”). This outline is part of NIST’s AI Standards Zero Drafts pilot project, which was announced on March 25, 2025, as we previously reported. The
Thomson Reuters CEO: Legal Profession Faces “Biggest Disruption in Its History” from AI
Thomson Reuters President and CEO Steve Hasker believes the legal profession is experiencing “the biggest disruption … in its history” due to generative and agentic artificial intelligence, fundamentally rewriting how legal work products are created for the first time in more than 300 years. Speaking to legal technology reporters during ILTACON, the International Legal Technology
AI is dominating puny humans!
Computerworld.com reported that “New research shows how easily manipulated people are by AI tools, especially when they’re designed to manipulate. Knowledge is the only defense.” The August 18, 2025 article entitled “Puny humans are no match for AI” (https://www.computerworld.com/article/4040468/puny-humans-are-no-match-for-ai.html) included these comments about AI that stealth advertises:
Science editors at Frontiers in Psychology this month
Nuclear Verdicts: An Analytical Look at Recognition and Prevention From The Defense Perspective
The Justice Catalyst: John Grenier
Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋 I’m excited to share with you the 32nd 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!If you want to understand how technology
Science is National Security: Lessons from the AI+ Science Summit
At the AI+ Science Summit in Washington, D.C., the panel “Science is National Security” brought together thought leaders from government, industry, and the innovation economy to address a quietly radical thesis: scientific leadership has become the essential pillar of twenty first century power, as crucial to a nation’s security as the traditional tools of statecraft.
Pablo Arredondo and Joel Hron on Reasoning Models, Deep Research, and the Future of Legal AI
In this episode of The Geek in Review, we welcome back Pablo Arredondo, VP of CoCounsel at Thomson Reuters, along with Joel Hron, the company’s CTO. The conversation centers on the recent release of ChatGPT-5 and the rise of “reasoning models” that go beyond traditional language models’ limitations. Pablo reflects on his years
AI Law is Multidisciplinary Law
The recent picture above by Lynn Hsu in The New Yorker magazine depicts a lost opportunity for me.When I moved to the Midwest nearly 30 years ago, I should have bought some farmland that I could now sell to BigTech for big money to house their AI data centers!Of course, tech companies are making massive
SLAW- Jordan Furlong – Another Brilliant Idea! the Hidden Dangers of Sycophantic AI
Author’s Note: After I wrote this column, but a couple of days before it was published, Open AI upgraded its GPT Chatbot from version 4 to version 5. Among the negative reactions to the change was a sense that ChatGPT-5’s artificial personality had becomes more distant and less complimentary. As you’ll see below, I don’t think