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

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

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

• 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

• Senate subcommittee hearing about AI regulation in healthcare

• There was a targeted attack against OpenAI

• There’s now a wearable AI device that intends to one day replace the smartphone

• Openai unveiled a series of AI tool updates, including the ability for developers to create custom versions of ChatGPT called GPTs

• Reuter reported Amazon is investing millions of dollars in training an AI codenamed “Olympus,” which is expected to have double the amount of “parameters,” or building blocks that make AI smarter than OpenAI’s GPT-4 model

• YouTube is testing AI tools that answer questions about content

• Taking the Bar Exam is not necessary in Oregon now

• New Legal AI startup called “Eve”

• Florida Bar may require lawyers to get client consent before using generative AI

• Big Tech wants AI regulation. The rest of Silicon Valley is skeptical

• Imagine an AI that not only understands our words but can also act upon them in the physical world

• CISA Signs Memorandum of Understanding with the Republic of Korea to Share Cyber Threat Information and Cybersecurity Best Practices

• AI improves legal writing speed, not quality - a study

• Robots plus generative AI: Everything you need to know when they work as one

• Axios launches its first A.I.+ Summit in San Francisco with a robot dog

• Joe Biden Wants US Government Algorithms Tested for Potential Harm Against Citizens