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A two-host audio briefing covering the week's biggest legal and legal-AI stories: the FTC's landmark subpoenas to OpenAI and Anthropic, Character.AI's bankruptcy and the data-privacy questions it raises, the Supreme Court's October sitting highlights, the Law Society of England and Wales drawing a firm line on AI and professional responsibility, Harvey's latest ecosystem expansion, and the growing pressure on law firm business models from in-house AI adoption. Sources: • https://www.law360.com/ai

A packed episode covering the landmark Legora funding round and its rivalry with Harvey, two surprising Supreme Court decisions, the Anthropic supply-chain case heading toward en banc review, the CFTC moving into AI enforcement, a major plaintiff-side AI litigation practice launch, and new professional responsibility guidance from England and Wales. Sources: • https://www.law360.com/ai

A federal judge keeps the NAACP's Clean Air Act suit against xAI alive despite a dramatic DOJ intervention, Harvey absorbs Midpage's legal research library via an MCP connector, Womble Bond Dickinson builds an in-house AI lab, New York City proposes chatbot regulations, and European legaltech investment surges — but flows almost entirely to a handful of winners. Sources: • https://www.law360.com/ai

A deep dive into the biggest stories shaping law and legal AI: Harvey and Legora racing to own the in-house legal stack through new data integrations and competing 'Intake' products, Microsoft's Copilot for Legal turning partners into competitors, Florida's aggressive injunction push against OpenAI, a new BIPA lawsuit targeting Grok's facial recognition capabilities, an AI-related disqualification motion at Crowell & Moring, and the Supreme Court's early ideological signals in its new term. Sources: • https://www.law360.com/ai

A deep dive into the week's biggest legal and legal-AI developments, including a novel law firm conflict-of-interest fight at the heart of AI litigation, Hogan Lovells Cadwalader's landmark firmwide AI strategy, Thomson Reuters' global CoCounsel rollout, Cooley and Google Cloud building bespoke legal tools, Supreme Court rulings on Roundup preemption and DOGE transparency, and active AI legislation in New York and California. Sources: • https://www.law360.com/ai

Microsoft launches Copilot for Legal with 20-plus purpose-built skills baked into Word and its agentic workspace, becoming the fourth major AI platform in five months to roll out a dedicated legal offering — and the one with the biggest built-in distribution advantage. Eight states file the largest coordinated state-level AI lawsuit ever against OpenAI over ChatGPT's alleged harms to children. Plus: the Trump administration bets on tort law over regulation, UK lawyers' AI use is outpacing their governance, Columbia Law gets into generative-AI education, and the whole industry keeps marching from assistants toward agents. Sources: • https://legaltechnology.com/latest-news/

Today's episode digs into the week's biggest legal and legal-AI stories: a leaked internal email revealing Freshfields' secret plans to spin off and potentially IPO its AI arm, the high-stakes Apple versus OpenAI trade secrets battle in San Jose, new AI product launches reshaping legal ops, China entering the legal AI benchmark race, and California's first binding generative AI rules for attorneys. Sources: • https://www.law.com/legal-technology/

Three major legal AI product launches dropped on the same day, signaling a shift from general-purpose AI tools to workflow-integrated legal solutions. Meanwhile, Gannett's USA Today network sued OpenAI for $250 million, the UK moved on product liability and professional competence reforms, and the Supreme Court takes up a 1988 video privacy law with major implications for digital media. Sources: • https://www.law360.com/ai

A packed legal news briefing covering the AI Agent Accountability Act's push for criminal liability, a novel class action against DraftKings for algorithmic gambling exploitation, today's Supreme Court argument in Beaird v. United States, a striking trust gap in legal AI adoption, the UK Law Commission's proposed expansion of product liability to software, BMW's enterprise-wide Legora rollout, and a debate over whether bar associations should regulate AI or just educate lawyers about it. Sources: • https://www.law360.com/ai

A deep dive into the biggest stories in legal AI and law for the week of October 12, 2026 — from Harvey and LexisNexis shipping the first jointly built agentic litigation workflow, to Cooley teaming with Google on Gemini-powered redaction, to a bipartisan Senate bill that would make AI agent operators criminally liable, to the Supreme Court's new term kicking off with a landmark climate liability argument. Sources: • https://www.law360.com/ai

A deep dive into the week's biggest legal and legal-AI stories: AT&T and OpenAI teaming up to reimagine in-house legal work, OpenAI launching a document review product, new AI laws in California, a Florida AG's unprecedented ask, and the Supreme Court hearing a landmark climate liability case that could reshape municipal litigation across the country. Sources: • https://www.law.com/topics/artificial-intelligence/

A deep dive into the week's most significant legal and legal-AI developments: a jaw-dropping $60 million seed round for a secretive startup, BigLaw's struggle to profit from AI, a landmark AI hiring-bias ruling, two fresh Supreme Court arguments, and new state AI regulations hitting law firms. Sources: • https://www.law360.com/ai

A deep dive into the week's biggest legal and legal-AI stories: bipartisan legislation targeting AI agent accountability, Justice Alito's surprising stance on AI, key Supreme Court cases to watch, Relativity's cloud ultimatum, California's push to regulate attorney AI use, and the ROSS Intelligence copyright case heading toward potential Supreme Court review. Sources: • https://www.law360.com/ai

A fast-moving week in legal and legal-AI news: the Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence copyright battle heads toward a potential Supreme Court showdown, California signs a sweeping package of AI laws, a federal judge warns about AI eroding the legal apprenticeship model, and courts grapple with deepfakes, First Amendment questions, and the vacuum left by congressional inaction on AI regulation. Sources: • https://www.law360.com/ai

A two-host audio briefing covering the week's biggest legal and AI-law developments: the Third Circuit's landmark ruling in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence, the new bipartisan AI Agent Accountability Act, a novel class action against DraftKings over AI-driven gambling targeting, Supreme Court arguments kicking off the new term, EU AI Act compliance pressures, and new AI-native firm launches in Big Law. Sources: • https://www.law360.com/ai