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When we use computers, it often feels like we never come to the end of something. Occasionally an app will be closed down—RIP Google Reader and Microsoft Bob—but we get used to versioning. A product is created, captures an audience, and then increments while it remains solvent, whether or
From Saddam’s WMD bluff to AI washing: when capability claims meet inspection
Editor’s Note: A ruler whose banned stockpiles were gone spent more than a decade persuading the world they might remain. The U.S. Army’s own history of the war that followed concluded that its lone clear winner appeared to be Iran—the rival the ambiguity was meant to deter. This analysis follows that strategy from the FBI’s
What is conversational AI for business? Definition and how it works
Conversational AI is technology that understands human language and responds to it naturally. It uses natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning to interpret what a person means, hold a genuine two-way conversation, and improve with every interaction.
Picture a clinic’s front desk on a Monday morning: 40 texts to reschedule appointments and a weekend
When hacktivists join the fight: A closer read of Cyber Law Toolkit scenario 36
Editor’s Note: Volunteer hackers now shadow armed conflict, from the collectives that hit Aeroflot last July to the pro-Iran groups claiming attacks in this year’s conflict. Scenario 36 of the Cyber Law Toolkit answers with a detailed map of what international humanitarian law demands of them: which operations cross into attacks, when participants become lawful
Shaping the Frontier: Where Global Vision, Geopolitics, and Next-Gen Tech Converge
By JT Consulting & Media
In a technology landscape overflowing with buzzword-heavy press releases and armchair futurists, JT Consulting & Media operates in a tier of its own.
For over a decade, we have operated at the absolute center of global disruption. We don’t merely report on the future from the sidelines; we sit in
Beijing contests House Salt Typhoon report as Congress weighs a wider cleanup
Editor’s Note: A bipartisan House report found three Chinese state-owned carriers, their Section 214 authorizations denied or revoked, still holding equipment, data-center space and interconnection ties inside U.S. networks; within a day, China’s embassy had objected and party-state media had recast the findings as politicized and lacking technical evidence. That collision is the durable story,
Exclusive: Coming Out of Stealth, Paravo Launches What It Calls the First AI ‘Revenue Engine’ for Law Firms
Rarely do law firms lose clients on merit, argues Cesar Tapia. They lose them before intake ever happens – to missed calls, slow follow-up and dead voicemail. Today, Tapia and his cofounder Eslam Odeh are launching their answer to that problem – Paravo, a startup emerging from stealth with what it describes as the first
Estonia tops Rumavi’s 2026 relocation index as institutions beat sunshine
Editor’s Note: A relocation index published at the turn of July hands Estonia first place among 192 countries and territories, two tenths of a point ahead of Singapore, and the reasons read like a governance brief: banking access, business opportunity and property rights for non-citizens. Rumavi, the flat-fee advisory behind the ranking, runs six weighting
SurePoint’s New CEO Jeff Steinberg on His Mandate for Change
SurePoint Technologies, a company that provides practice-management, finance and growth technology products for mid-sized law firms, named Jeff Steinberg its chief executive officer on July 23, elevating Eric Thurston, who had led the company since 2023, to executive chairman. Two weeks into the job, Steinberg joins LawNext to speak with host Bob Ambrogi about what
DISCO Moves Beyond E-Discovery with ‘Unified Litigation Solution’ that Combines Case Facts and Case Law
DISCO is moving beyond e-discovery, the technology that has been its bread and butter ever since its founding in 2013, to launch what it describes as the industry’s first unified litigation solution, an AI-native application that combines the facts of a matter with relevant U.S. case law. The product, which the company has not yet
California’s AI Transparency Act arrives alongside Europe’s Article 50
Editor’s Note: Provenance metadata crossed a threshold Aug. 2: California’s AI Transparency Act became operative the same day most of the EU AI Act’s Article 50 duties began applying, an alignment AB 853 engineered. Generative AI providers with over 1 million monthly visitors or users now owe California a free detection tool, embedded latent disclosures
Firm AI Principle 6: Professional compliance is the substrate. Trust is what gets built on top of it.
Professional services firms have unique ethical and regulatory obligations that govern how business must be conducted. Not meeting those obligations is one of the greatest risks a professional services firm faces. As more business gets conducted through artificial intelligence, the more firms must ensure that compliance is built into the tools and processes that are
Thomson Reuters Says Its Homegrown AI Model Now Rivals the Frontier Labs – I Take A Closer Look At the Benchmarks
Thomson Reuters says the large language model it has been quietly building in-house now performs competitively with the best general-purpose AI models in the world, and it has released its first benchmarking results to back up the claim. In a July 31 post on the company’s innovation blog, Chief Technology Officer Joel Hron and Head
Federal magistrate judge treats LinkedIn’s Relativity aiR workflow as TAR
Editor’s Note: A federal magistrate judge has given litigators their first close look at how a court handles generative artificial intelligence making final responsiveness calls, and the answer required no new law. In Schulte v. LinkedIn Corp., the court denied three plaintiff demands aimed at LinkedIn’s Relativity aiR workflow and treated the tool as a
LexisNexis Opens Customer Innovation Lab in New York to Bring Customers, Engineers and AI Companies Together to Build Legal AI in Real Time
LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced the opening of its Customer Innovation Lab in New York City, a physical space where legal professionals, LexisNexis engineers, and AI technology partners including OpenAI and Amazon Web Services work side by side to design, prototype and test new legal AI capabilities – sometimes iterating on an idea multiple
Universal Migrator helps closing startups offboard customers and reduce legal risk
A poorly managed shutdown can create significant risk. Customers may claim that they lost access to data, were not given a reasonable opportunity to retrieve it, or received exports that were incomplete or unusable. While no technology can eliminate legal risk, a documented and organized offboarding process can demonstrate that a company took reasonable steps