Microsoft Threat Intelligence issued a report on March 6, 2026, entitled, “AI as tradecraft: How threat actors operationalize AI,” which outlines how threat actors, including those from North Korea, are “operationalizing AI along the cyberattack lifecycle…to bypass safeguards and perform malicious activity.” The threat actors are adopting AI “as operational enablers, embedding AI
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Darktrace Issues Annual Threat Report
Cybersecurity firm Darktrace recently issued its Annual Threat Report, which offered some startling statistics and findings. The Threat Report provides a “comprehensive assessment of the global cyber threat landscape and the trends shaping cyber risk in 2026.”
Findings are summarized below, but we strongly encourage read the whole report.
- Email attacks are getting more sophisticated
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Using Trademarks to Protect IP from AI
By Daniel Lass
The fight between creators and big tech has mostly been focused on the alleged copyright infringement of using creative works in AI training data. However, trademark law might be the next battleground as creators look for additional ways to protect their work from AI-related misuse. Actor Matthew McConaughey recently received U.S. Registration No. 8,070,191 for…
Scoring Applicants? Your AI Could Be in FCRA Territory
By Roma Patel
The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) is decades old, but a recent artificial intelligence (AI)-related complaint suggests that plaintiffs are testing whether legacy consumer-reporting rules can apply to AI-driven hiring assessments.
In January, a class action complaint was filed in California, Kistler v. Eightfold AI Inc., No. C26-00214 (Cal. Super. Ct. Jan. 20, 2026). Eightfold…
Patentability Implications of the EU AI Act
By Daniel Lass
Novelty is a core requirement for any invention to be patentable. Put simply, your invention generally cannot have been publicly disclosed before the patent application’s effective filing date. In the United States, 35 U.S.C. § 102 includes a one-year grace period for certain public disclosures made before you file—many other jurisdictions do not have this…
Judge Issues Public Admonition + $12,000 Sanctions for Hallucinations
In a strongly worded order, Judge Julie A. Robinson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas publicly admonished and sanctioned four lawyers representing a plaintiff company in a patent infringement case for using ChatGPT to find caselaw to support a response to a motion to exclude an expert witness, and a response…
35 State AGs Raise Concerns About Deepfakes with xAI
On January 23, 2026, a bipartisan group of 35 state Attorneys General issued a letter to xAI stating their concern “about artificial-intelligence produced deepfake nonconsensual intimate images (NCII) of real people, including, children, wherever it is made or found,” including xAI’s chatbot, Grok. This is in addition to the letter sent on January 13, 2026…
AI Use + Data Security: A Growing Gap
A recent report published by Cyera entitled “State of AI Data Security: How to Close the Readiness Gap as AI Outpaces Enterprise Safeguards,” based on a survey of 921 IT and cybersecurity professionals, finds that although 83% of enterprises “already use AI in daily operations…only 13% report strong visibility into how it is…
The State of AI: Key Insights from the 2026 Leadership Survey
AI hype is everywhere. The 15th Annual AI & Data Leadership Executive Benchmark Survey, shows what nearly 110 Fortune 1000 companies and global brands are actually doing with AI. Once a future bet, AI is now a business mandate, and most companies are already seeing results.
Investment is essentially universal with an overwhelming 99.1%…
Copy That: Secondary Liability in the Age of AI
By Roma Patel
Artificial intelligence (AI) makes it easy to create, remix, and distribute content at scale, and that speed is a significant part of its value. It is also where intellectual property (IP) risk can creep in. That risk is not limited to the end user generating an AI output. It can also extend to the companies…