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Law Technology Daily Digest
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - Volume 21 No. 1365
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Top News
It’s tempting to offload your thinking to AI. Cognitive science shows why that’s a bad idea RealKM, May 7, 2026 Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions Farnam Street, May 7, 2026 How commercially-minded lawyers can enhance deal-making and get more sales contracts over the line Global Legal Post: Big Stories, May 7, 2026 France’s Genesis AI Debuts First Model, Shows Robotic Hand Silicon UK, May 7, 2026 Supreme Court Rejects Apple App Store Request Silicon UK, May 7, 2026 Hut 8 Signs Nearly $10bn Data Centre Lease Silicon UK, May 7, 2026 UK Financial Regulator Probes PayPal, Mastercard, Visa Silicon UK, May 7, 2026 DeepSeek Value Rises To $45bn In First Funding Round Silicon UK, May 7, 2026 Google Proposes Spam Policy Changes To Avoid EU Fine Silicon UK, May 7, 2026 Lawyer judgment in the age of AI: Why legal reasoning is only half the answer - Thomson Reuters Institute Legal Resource Center: Thomson Reuters, May 7, 2026 Anthropic Expands Compute Capacity With SpaceX’s Colossus 1 Silicon UK, May 7, 2026 Apple In $250m Consumer Settlement Over AI Delays Silicon UK, May 7, 2026 Georgia Supreme Court Vacates Murder Ruling Over AI Errors Silicon UK, May 7, 2026 An Interview with Joanna Stern About Living With AI Stratechery, May 7, 2026 Not Every AI Wins on Fair Use — Lawyers Would be Worthy Plaintiffs Real Lawyers Have Blogs - Kevin O'Keefe, May 7, 2026 Movers and Shakers: K&L Gates; Morgan Lewis, Axinn, Eversheds, Harvey, LegalEng & Litera - Legal IT Insider (Legal Technology), May 6, 2026 eDiscovery Market Demand Surges with Rise in Litigation & Digital Evidence - openPR.com (eDiscovery), May 6, 2026 The Legal Industry's Inflection Point: Moving Ai From Adoption to Orchestration - The National Law Review (Legal Technology), May 6, 2026 Legal Teams Don’t Need More Technology. They Need Engineering. - JD Supra (Legal Technology), May 6, 2026 Legal AI startup Jurisphere.ai raises $2.2 million in funding - Bar and Bench (Legal Technology), May 6, 2026 DLA Piper makes up 62 partners Global Legal Post: Big Stories, May 6, 2026 Divided 11th Circuit Rules Against Trump's Mandatory Detention Policy Blog of Legal Times, May 6, 2026 Former Alito Clerk Tapped to Defend Firearm Sentence at Supreme Court Blog of Legal Times, May 6, 2026 US Appeals Court Tosses Deportation Order After Cooley Backs Petition Pro Bono Blog of Legal Times, May 6, 2026 DOJ Moves to Vet Data Miner Fraud Claims Amid Surge in Qui Tam Filings Blog of Legal Times, May 6, 2026 4th Circuit Seems Skeptical of Policy Lifting Limits on ICE Arrests at Churches Blog of Legal Times, May 6, 2026 Hackers abuse Google ads for GoDaddy ManageWP login phishing Bleeping Computer, May 6, 2026 Critical vm2 sandbox bug lets attackers execute code on hosts Bleeping Computer, May 6, 2026 New Cisco DoS flaw requires manual reboot to revive devices Bleeping Computer, May 6, 2026 Spot the Spoof in this Post About IoT Forensics: Forensics Best Practices EDiscovery Today, May 6, 2026 SpaceX is starting to move on from the world's most successful rocket Ars Technica, May 6, 2026 Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX Ars Technica, May 6, 2026 TSMC taps wind power as AI chip demand soars, Taiwan feels energy crunch Ars Technica, May 6, 2026 Court strikes down FCC anti-discrimination rule opposed by Internet providers Ars Technica, May 6, 2026 Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good Ars Technica, May 6, 2026 Report: SpaceX IPO gives Musk unchecked power and forbids investor lawsuits Ars Technica, May 6, 2026 Google DeepMind partners with EVE Online for AI model testing Ars Technica, May 6, 2026 The animated version of the iconic "Hello, world" image reveals striking new details Ars Technica, May 6, 2026 FDA vaccine studies censored by Trump admin after finding benefits of shots Ars Technica, May 6, 2026 Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents can now "dream," sort of Ars Technica, May 6, 2026 The Most Overlooked Legal Intake Process: 4 Tips for Turning Inbound Calls Into Clients Attorney at Work, May 6, 2026 OceanLotus suspected of using PyPI to deliver ZiChatBot malware Secure List, May 6, 2026 Kagan Denies Apple's Request for Emergency Supreme Court Intervention in Antitrust Case Blog of Legal Times, May 6, 2026 White & Case advises GameStop on $56bn takeover offer for eBay Global Legal Post: Big Stories, May 6, 2026 Fox Rothschild promotes deputy GC to become firm’s in-house legal head Global Legal Post: Big Stories, May 6, 2026 King & Spalding adds two London partners in as many days Global Legal Post: Big Stories, May 6, 2026 If Markets Can Reprice for Hormuz, They Can Reprice for Paris Disrupt Legal, May 6, 2026 The SEC’s Semiannual Reporting Proposal is Here! The SEC’s Semiannual Reporting Proposal is Here! CorporateCounsel.net Blog, May 6, 2026 But Wait, There’s More! SEC Submits Climate Disclosure Rulemaking to OIRA CorporateCounsel.net Blog, May 6, 2026 SEC Staff Provides Guidance on Pooled Employer Plans CorporateCounsel.net Blog, May 6, 2026 Risk Work — Divorce-driven Conflict Case Back Again, Work Product Privilege No Escape from AI Accountability, CA on AI Rules Updates Bressler Risk Blog, May 6, 2026 Huntington Beach ordered to pay $1 million in lawyer fees in library censorship lawsuit Stephen's Lighthouse, May 6, 2026 Canadian sues U.S. Homeland Security, which allegedly sought his Google data after critical social media posts Stephen's Lighthouse, May 6, 2026 A Library Dedicated Solely to the Epstein Files Is Opening in New York Stephen's Lighthouse, May 6, 2026 Just Announced: “The Cost of Knowledge” is the Theme For International Open Access Week 2026 Stephen's Lighthouse, May 6, 2026 Trump’s Proposed Budget Guts Local Libraries and Museums Stephen's Lighthouse, May 6, 2026 5 Kinds of Complainers Leadership Freak, May 6, 2026 Trump’s latest science purge could bring major risks, experts say Stephen's Lighthouse, May 6, 2026 Why Professional Services Organizations Keep Solving the Wrong AI Problem - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CERTINIA Harvard Business Review, May 6, 2026 How Sales Teams Undercut Themselves with Longtime Clients Harvard Business Review, May 6, 2026 Research: Why You Shouldn’t Treat AI Agents Like Employees Harvard Business Review, May 6, 2026 DAEMON Tools devs confirm breach, release malware-free version Bleeping Computer, May 6, 2026 Why ransomware attacks succeed even when backups exist Bleeping Computer, May 6, 2026 MuddyWater hackers use Chaos ransomware as a decoy in attacks Bleeping Computer, May 6, 2026 Webinar: Why network incidents escalate and how to fix response gaps Bleeping Computer, May 6, 2026 Google's Gemma 4 AI models get 3x speed boost by predicting future tokens Ars Technica, May 6, 2026 Here's what has to happen if NASA wants to land on the Moon every month Ars Technica, May 6, 2026 Infants are bleeding out after parents decline vitamin K shots given at birth Ars Technica, May 6, 2026 Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals! Ars Technica, May 6, 2026 More than just an SUV? Rivian is working on more R2 variants. Ars Technica, May 6, 2026 AI: balancing TMI with FOMO UK Law Society Gazette: Comment and Opinion, May 6, 2026 Rowhammer Attack Against NVIDIA Chips Schneier on Security, May 6, 2026 The Case for and Against Co-Authoring With AI Slaw.ca: Legal Technology, May 6, 2026 From Depp-Heard to Epstein: My Interview on the Data Xposure Podcast: eDiscovery Trends EDiscovery Today, May 6, 2026 States Are Requiring Lawyers to Verify AI Outputs. Will it Help?: Artificial Intelligence Trends EDiscovery Today, May 6, 2026 Is Your Grammar Too Good? A New Way to Repel Clients and Prospects Attorney at Work, May 6, 2026 Legal Soundings: The Fight for the Table Is Over. Now What? — Inside the CLOC/Harbor State of the Industry Report HBR Consulting: Law Department Surveys, May 6, 2026
News and Blogs
Lawyer judgment in the age of AI: Why legal reasoning is only half the answer - Thomson Reuters Institute Legal Resource Center: Thomson Reuters, May 7, 2026 Risk Work — Divorce-driven Conflict Case Back Again, Work Product Privilege No Escape from AI Accountability, CA on AI Rules Updates Bressler Risk Blog, May 6, 2026 Why Professional Services Organizations Keep Solving the Wrong AI Problem - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CERTINIA Harvard Business Review, May 6, 2026 How Sales Teams Undercut Themselves with Longtime Clients Harvard Business Review, May 6, 2026 Research: Why You Shouldn’t Treat AI Agents Like Employees Harvard Business Review, May 6, 2026
Corporate Legal Focus
The SEC’s Semiannual Reporting Proposal is Here! The SEC’s Semiannual Reporting Proposal is Here! CorporateCounsel.net Blog, May 6, 2026 But Wait, There’s More! SEC Submits Climate Disclosure Rulemaking to OIRA CorporateCounsel.net Blog, May 6, 2026 SEC Staff Provides Guidance on Pooled Employer Plans CorporateCounsel.net Blog, May 6, 2026 Legal Soundings: The Fight for the Table Is Over. Now What? — Inside the CLOC/Harbor State of the Industry Report HBR Consulting: Law Department Surveys, May 6, 2026
PRACTICE SUPPORT / E-DISCOVERY
News and Blogs
eDiscovery Market Demand Surges with Rise in Litigation & Digital Evidence - openPR.com (eDiscovery), May 6, 2026 Spot the Spoof in this Post About IoT Forensics: Forensics Best Practices EDiscovery Today, May 6, 2026 The Most Overlooked Legal Intake Process: 4 Tips for Turning Inbound Calls Into Clients Attorney at Work, May 6, 2026
Vendor Announcements
Deal News | A Winston team led by Brian Schafer and Charles Vargo is representing investment bank William Blair in its definitive... Winston & Strawn LLP, May 6, 2026 Four years after opening in Miami, Winston is continuing to invest in the market and in its future. As Enrique J. Martin shares wi... Winston & Strawn LLP, May 6, 2026 We recently partnered with Houlihan Lokey to co‑host an AI and IT services program that brought together PE sponsors, founders, an... Winston & Strawn LLP, May 6, 2026 Deal News | A Winston team led by Justin Reinus and Charlie Haag represented Farmer Bros. Co., a leading roaster, wholesaler and d... Winston & Strawn LLP, May 6, 2026
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT / LEAN / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE / MACHINE LEARNING
News and Blogs
It’s tempting to offload your thinking to AI. Cognitive science shows why that’s a bad idea RealKM, May 7, 2026 Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions Farnam Street, May 7, 2026
Vendor Announcements
Divided 11th Circuit Rules Against Trump's Mandatory Detention Policy Blog of Legal Times, May 6, 2026 Former Alito Clerk Tapped to Defend Firearm Sentence at Supreme Court Blog of Legal Times, May 6, 2026 One Task at a Time Won’t Cut It: The Case for Legal AI Orchestration Over Point Solutions Neota Logic, May 6, 2026
LEADERSHIP / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT / MARKETING
News and Blogs
How commercially-minded lawyers can enhance deal-making and get more sales contracts over the line Global Legal Post: Big Stories, May 7, 2026 France’s Genesis AI Debuts First Model, Shows Robotic Hand Silicon UK, May 7, 2026 Supreme Court Rejects Apple App Store Request Silicon UK, May 7, 2026
Vendor Announcements
Cornerstone.IT Cornerstone IT: Events, May 6, 2026 Cornerstone.IT Cornerstone IT: Events, May 6, 2026
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