China expands controls on foreign deals and tech transfers after Meta-Manus block
China has issued sweeping new rules tightening oversight of overseas deals involving Chinese investors, technology, data, and national…
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Connecticut enacts broad employment AI transparency law
Connecticut has passed the Artificial Intelligence Responsibility and Transparency Act (Senate Bill 5), one of the country’s broadest…
Lavern, the open repo, and the case for poking around
Most of the legal tech covered by The Legal Wire fits a recognisable shape: a Series A, a…
Kirkland & Ellis to spend $500m building its own AI platform
Kirkland & Ellis, the world’s highest-grossing law firm, has earmarked $500m to build a proprietary AI platform rather…
nu:legal and the expertise that never leaves the room
Most founders can name the moment their company began. For Bork Morfaw, it began with a question he…
German SMEs are losing billions to bureaucracy: nu:legal raises €1.3M to give them a faster way to work
Founded by a former Freshfields lawyer, the platform offers custom-built legal services that are co-developed with leading European…
Legora expands across Asia-Pacific with new offices in Singapore and Tokyo
Legora, the agentic AI platform for legal professionals trusted by more than 1,200 leading law firms and in-house…
The AI Adoption Gap Is Real. But Who’s to Blame?
I spend most of my working week talking to the people building legal AI: founders, CEOs, the engineers…
SpaceX IPO Filing Offers Rare Look at AI Regulatory Risk Through xAI
SpaceX’s S-1 securities filing, filed ahead of its IPO, provides one of the most detailed accounts yet of…
OpenAI Tells Court ChatGPT Is “Not a Lawyer” in Unauthorized-Practice Fight
Reuters reports that OpenAI asked a federal judge in Chicago to dismiss a lawsuit by Nippon Life Insurance…