Toronto police are warning that scammers are increasingly using artificial intelligence to make fraud attempts more targeted and believable. Investigators say AI is helping criminals gather personal information quickly, tailor their messages, and impersonate trusted institutions with greater credibility.
Toronto police are warning that a growing number of fraud attempts are now being enhanced by
A Tale of Two Bills: Lawful Access Returns With Changes to Warrantless Access But Dangerous Backdoor Surveillance Risks Remain
The decades-long battle over lawful access entered a new phase yesterday with the introduction of Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act. This bill follows the attempt last spring to bury lawful access provisions in Bill C-2, a border measures bill that was the new government’s first piece of substantive legislation. The lawful access
3 Things Every Business Must Know About AI — Before It Is Too Late
Everyone is talking about AI, but not everyone understands what AI is. AI, or artificial intelligence, refers to technology that enables machines to perform tasks that traditionally required human thinking—things like reading, writing, analyzing information, and making decisions.
A particularly powerful form of AI today is the large language model (or LLM), which is a type of AI trained on vast amounts of text that allows it to understand and generate human language, making it the engine behind popular tools like chatbots and AI writing assistants. Think ChatGPT or Google Gemini.
Reshaping investment banking in the age of AI: 3 key takeaways from Amplify 2026
Before Amplify even opened, the conversations were happening. Clients arriving with the same urgency, asking the same harder question — not whether AI would reshape investment banking, but how far ahead the early movers already were. What they saw across three days sharpened that instinct. Three themes defined what we heard, and together they define
UK Government Launches Consultation on Children’s Online Experiences, Including New Obligations for AI
On March 2, 2026, the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (“DSIT”) launched its consultation, titled “Growing up in the online world: a national conversation”. The consultation is open until 26 May 2026, after which the government will publish a summary of responses and its proposed approach. DSIT has indicated that it intends to move quickly on the consultation’s findings, drawing on newly granted powers that allow for accelerated implementation of online safety measures.
The consultation seeks views on a wide range of potential measures to strengthen children’s safety and wellbeing online, including more robust age‑assurance mechanisms, a statutory minimum age for social media, raising the UK’s age of digital consent, restrictions on certain features (such as livestreaming and disappearing messages), and new obligations for AI chatbots and generative‑AI services.
DSIT’s proposals could significantly expand regulatory expectations beyond the Online Safety Act 2023 (“OSA”)—including potential age‑based access limits (including differing safeguards as between teens and younger children), feature‑level restrictions, and enhanced duties for AI‑enabled services. Early engagement will be important to ensure that the government takes account of the views of affected service providers and understands the operational and technical implications of the measures proposed.
Debevoise Discusses Judge Rakoff’s Written Opinion on AI-Generated Documents
We wrote recently about a decision in which Judge Rakoff of the Southern District of New York denied the claim of defendant Bradley Heppner that documents prepared by Heppner using the consumer version of the AI model Claude for legal research were privileged. On February 17, 2026, Judge Rakoff issued a written opinion explaining the
Debunking AI Myths Legal Professionals Still Believe
AI Myth 1: AI will one day replace legal judgment
Will AI replace lawyers? This concern often surfaces when people see AI generate legal language. Drafting, summarizing, outlining, and issue-spotting sit close enough to legal reasoning that it can feel as though judgment itself is being encroached upon.
The Legal Trends Report shows that AI’s
Content Velocity Meets Content Quality: How AI Helps Law Firms Fill Content Gaps Faster
Your ideal clients are asking AI exactly the questions you answer every day. If your website doesn’t address them specifically, another firm gets the referral. Learn how to find your content gaps and close them — faster than you ever thought possible.
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How to End Up on Top When Claiming to Be No. 1
Baby monitors are having a moment at the National Advertising Division (NAD) after multiple cases were announced over claims that monitors incorporated artificial intelligence technology – see here and here – but as we watch and listen to learn new tricks, it is important to remember the ABCs as well – or, in this case,
Strategic intellectual property considerations for artificial intelligence technologies: How “non-tech”companies could be missing hidden IP goldmines
Companies outside traditional tech sectors may be sitting on IP goldmines without realizing it. Manufacturing, e-commerce, and consumer products businesses routinely use AI technologies from predictive maintenance to automated pricing. These technologies represent valuable intellectual property assets. While these companies may not self-identify as “tech companies” in the Silicon Valley sense, their AI implementations are every bit as technically sophisticated and legally protectable.
Even when AI implementations are not core to customer-facing products, they warrant strategic protection. Operations-focused enterprises can leverage these innovations for competitive advantage, licensing opportunities, or as defensive assets in a broader IP strategy.