AI and Law Firms; Antitrust and AI; Cyberwar in Isreal

The apps most likely to share your data;

Interesting Tech at CES; Big layoffs at Big Tech; a Norwegian company wants to sell us all robots; Copyright and AI - what’s going to happen?

US Supreme Court's Roberts urges 'caution' as AI reshapes legal field;

Deepfake regulations are urgently needed;

Robin AI, a maker of contract management software, leading in legal tech

Microsoft's role in OpenAI on EU antitrust regulators' radar; Google against potential EU break-up order, says not proportionate; Tesla must respect collective bargaining rights, Norway's sovereign wealth fund says; Ex-Apple lawyer sentenced to probation for insider trading

The first technology to use CRISPR promises to help those with sickle cell; Is Google’s new LLM the “ultimate” writing assistant?

Google presents Gemini; Google also unveils AI that predicts inorganic materials; How did the 23andMe hack happen?; And defense tech is booming; and the National Cybersecurity Alliance has planned a Data Privacy Week

Prelim draft reg on automated decision-making are out.; The EU moves to apply the tiered approach to General Purpose AI

• Does Biden’s AI Bill of Rights need to do more?

• The FBI can keep Its surveillance tool, but It'll Need a Warrant;

• Maine votes “Yes” on right to repair cars;

• Cyberattack On A&O Highlights Perils Of Law Firm Mergers;

• Chief state court judges to examine bar admissions nationwide;

• US judge says 'patent monetization' firm IP Edge may have broken law;

• Meta says it will appeal US judge's ruling in privacy fight with FTC;

• Developer Conference Used Fake Female Speaker Profiles;

• Amazon introduced their large language model called “Q”;

• Women in Tech say “No” to joining the Open AI board. Is this Misguided?;

• More AI tools dropped during the OpenAI chaos

• Certifying AI use in court filings

• Who can be sued in Amazon resales?

• More news on the Apple hiring bias case

• In Sarah Silverman’s AI copyright infringement lawsuit against Meta, judge sides with AI firms on novel intellectual property questions;

• Criticisms abound of Big Tech lobbying efforts around Copyright and AI;

• The New York Times claims that AI “belongs to the capitalists now”

Tech execs think tech companies are becoming too powerful; Tech groups warn EU against over-regulating AI

• US Marshals serve CEOs of X and Discord with congressional subpoenas ahead of Big Tech child safety hearing;

• The New York Times explains the OpenAI drama;

• OpenAI gets a new copyright lawsuit; and,

• A Florida judge found "reasonable evidence" that Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk knew about autopilot defect

• Australia goes on cyber offensive

• Apple is contesting decisions taken by the European Commission under its Digital Markets Act in court;

• Meta makes changes in its Responsible AI team;

• Law firms need to do more to make their data secure

• Germany, France, Italy reach agreement on AI regulation;

• Pennsylvania’s government is using AI to fix roads and bridges;

• Germany approved changes to its rules for stock-based compensation at tech startups to compete with Silicon Valley;

• OpenAI has serious consequences, and Microsoft is paying attention

• Hacker group reports itself to SEC to force payout from victim;

• Private detective who led a hacking attack against climate activists gets prison time;

• Gonzalez v. Google tests the Communications Decency Act

• Meta says vetting teens’ ages should fall on app stores, parents via the Washington Post

• Google plans a Global AI Corps

• Big Tech moves to challenge the EU’s digital antitrust rules via Politico

• Meta and Alphabet, among others, face social media addiction lawsuits via Reuters

• The Electronic Frontier Foundation says anonymity is a myth

• China has 80% more AI patent filings than the US

• Above the Law discusses how to thrive with changing legal tech

• US drops antitrust case over healthcare hiring agreements via Reuters

• Did Zuckerberg ignore warnings about teenage girls?

• Avoid “Juice Jacking” warns the FTC

• 1.3 Million people affected in Maine ransomware data breach