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Barrister facing prison sentence for helping gangster trace assassin
A criminal barrister who helped a gangster trace a gunman who tried to assassinate him is facing a long prison sentence …
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Regulation & Compliance
Court Upholds Instagram’s TOS–Feds for Freedom v. Meta
Feds for Freedom is an anti-COVID vax organization. 🙄 It registered an Instagram account. F4F is upset that Instagram al…
Friday, 17 July 2026
General
K&L Gates cuts circa 10% of its business services workforce
K&L Gates has launched a significant round of redundancies targeting its “allied professional” workforce…
AI & Machine Learning
What’s In A Wrapper? Comparing A Hershey Bar To LegalTech AI
Anyone can make sweets, but not everyone can make a Hershey bar. The debate over legaltech startups offering nothing mor…
AI & Machine Learning
Startup Corner: LexiTrove – AI for the employment matter lifecycle
Founded this year by brothers Rohit and Rishabh Kumar, LexiTrove is taking a specialist approach to legal AI and focusin…
AI & Machine Learning
From models to solutions: What Anthropic’s Ode launch signals for legal
This week Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman officially launched Ode, an AI services company that combines…
AI & Machine Learning
How an influx of salt may affect microbial ecosystems
As sea levels rise and saltwater seeps into freshwater, stressed aquatic populations may retain overall growth even as d…
AI & Machine Learning
AI Benefits, Cooley’s Meatballs, Opus 2 +
We start this week’s Wrap with a survey: ‘Has law firm AI use delivered cost savings for clients?’ There is a link here …
Thursday, 16 July 2026
HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs
Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.
Now, even Russia's most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices
The social-engineering technique has primarily been a tool of financially motivated criminals.
AI & Machine Learning
Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom
Companies coming to market are raising money at fastest pace this century.
AI & Machine Learning
Intapp Makes Celeste Generally Available, Calling It An ‘AI Coworker’ To Run the Business Side of Law Firms
Intapp, the publicly traded company whose software manages intake, conflicts, and deal workflows for law firms and other…
AI & Machine Learning
Harvey strengthens asset management offering with Benchmark acquisition
By Tom Saunders Harvey announced today (16 July) that it has acquired Benchmark, a decision infrastructure platform for …
AI & Machine Learning
Relativity President Chris Brown on the Gavel Acquisition, Opening Up to Claude, and the ‘Gangbusters’ Growth of aiR
Last week, Relativity announced that Chris Brown, its chief product officer since 2018, had been named the company’s pre…
Wednesday, 15 July 2026
AI & Machine Learning
Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines
The convenience store chain will use StorMagic instead.
AI & Machine Learning
3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design
Assistant Professor Pat Pataranutaporn describes a new interface that lets everyday users glimpse inside an AI's neural …
Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches
HiveLegacy is a "powerful primitive" that's likely capable of other nefarious actions.
3D-printed bridge points the way to greener construction
MIT researchers developed a framework that folds a printer’s real-world limits into the optimization, while revealing th…
AI & Machine Learning
Electric fields help guide neural activity, even from moment to moment
A new study adds evidence that electric fields in the brain help to organize and shape underlying neural activity via “e…
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‘I Couldn’t Get It Out of My Mind’: Chris Cartrett on Why He Is Leaving Aderant and Legal Tech
When I spoke with Chris Cartrett yesterday, just hours after reporting that he will step down Aug. 1 as president and CE…