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Don Ho, Esq. is a regular contributing author to CEB's DailyNews platform, the California Continuing Education of the Bar's legal research and practice resource. His articles cover AI law, compliance, and the legal implications of emerging technology for attorneys and businesses.
When AI Agents Start Transacting, the Legal System Has No Answer
When the Witness Isn't Real: AI Evidence Authentication Is Now Your Problem
The Five Stages of AI Compliance Readiness for Law Firms
Five Attorneys Sanctioned $12,000 for AI-Hallucinated Citations — Why Every Lawyer Needs an AI Verification Protocol
California Moves to Regulate AI
From Silicon Valley to the Old Dominion: How Virginia's AI Bill Could Shape the National Conversation
New AI Copyright Guidelines: Balancing Human Creativity and Technological Innovation
From PayPal to the White House: David Sacks' Appointment and What It Means for AI Policy
California's SB 1047: What the AI Safety Bill Means for Businesses Before the Governor Decides
The AI Regulatory Frontier: Legal Implications for US and International Businesses
Leveling the Playing Field: How AI Empowers Solo In-House Counsel
AI and Data Privacy: A Step-by-Step Guide for Enterprises
AI Adoption Anguish: Averting Algorithmic Risk
Ethical Considerations for Attorneys Using AI in Their Practice
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An Insurance Company Just Sued OpenAI for Practicing Law Without a License. The Theory Could Break the Industry.
Nippon Life Insurance sued OpenAI in federal court, alleging ChatGPT practiced law without a license. Stanford says the same "architectural negligence" theory behind Meta's $375M verdict applies here.
Read More →GitHub Just Made Your Code Microsoft's Training Data. You Have 19 Days to Stop It.
Starting April 24, GitHub opts all Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users into AI model training by default. Your proprietary code, architecture patterns, and business logic are now Microsoft's training pipeline.
Read More →Your AI Chat History Is Being Sold. A Class Action Just Made It Official.
A 135-page class action alleges Perplexity AI sent user chat data to Meta and Google without consent, even in "incognito mode." Every GC needs to rethink AI chatbot privacy risk.
Read More →The Federal Government Wants "Any Lawful" Use of Your AI. Vendors Are Pushing Back.
GSA's draft AI procurement rules would let the government use AI tools for any lawful purpose, overriding vendor terms of service. Industry groups warn of civil liberties risks and vendor exodus.
Read More →A Lawyer in Oregon Just Got Hit With $109,700 in AI Sanctions. The Crisis Is Accelerating.
A federal court ordered a record $109,700 in AI sanctions against a single attorney. With 1,200+ cases worldwide and penalties escalating, every lawyer needs an AI verification protocol now.
Read More →California Just Became the De Facto National AI Regulator. Again.
Governor Newsom signed a new executive order tightening AI procurement standards for every company doing business with California. Those standards are about to become the national baseline.
Read More →The Supreme Court Just Buried the Last Hope for AI-Only Copyright
The Supreme Court declined to hear Thaler v. Vidal on March 2, 2026, leaving in place the ruling that AI-generated works have no copyright protection. Every business using generative AI needs to rethink its IP strategy now.
Read More →78 State Chatbot Bills. 58 Lawsuits. And a Federal Deadline Eight Days Away.
On March 11, the Commerce Department and FTC face federal preemption deadlines for state AI chatbot laws. Meanwhile, wiretap lawsuits against AI deployers grew 1,400% in four years. Here's what GCs need to do right now.
Read More →The AI That Screened Out 40-Year-Olds Just Became a Class Action
A federal court authorized a nationwide class action against Workday's AI hiring tool for age discrimination. Here's what every employer needs to audit now.
Read More →Your ChatGPT Conversation Is Now Evidence
A federal judge ruled AI-generated docs aren't protected by attorney-client privilege. Here's what every GC needs to do now.
Read More →AI-Generated Faces Now Beat Real Ones. Regulators Just Noticed.
Researchers confirm AI faces now appear more trustworthy than real photographs. India mandates 3-hour deepfake takedowns. What businesses must do before visual verification becomes a legal standard.
Read More →Google Nuked a Lawyer's Entire Digital Life for Doing His Job
A lawyer uploaded legal docs to Google NotebookLM for a criminal case. Google deleted his Gmail, phone number, and photos with no appeal process. What every professional using Google services needs to know.
Read More →States Are Now Using AI to Catch Your Compliance Failures
Montana and Hawaii are live. California is close. States are deploying AI to flag filings and enforce compliance. Here is what changed and what you need to do now.
Read More →The White House Just Told a State to Kill Its AI Child Safety Bill
The Trump administration called a Utah AI child safety bill unfixable. No federal law replaces it. Here is what the compliance gap means for your business.
Read More →California Just Issued the First Major State AI Enforcement Action. Here Is What Businesses Need to Know.
California's AG served a cease-and-desist on xAI over Grok deepfakes. This is what AI enforcement looks like before federal law catches up.
Read More →Your AI Legal Research Just Became Evidence Against You
Judge Rakoff's SDNY ruling in US v. Heppner held that Claude AI outputs are not protected by attorney-client privilege. What every GC and litigator must know now.
Read More →A California Lawyer Just Got Hit With a $25K AI Sanction. The State Bar Is Watching.
A California federal court ordered $25,000 in AI-related fee sanctions. State bars are initiating disciplinary proceedings. Here's what the liability landscape looks like now.
Read More →Anthropic Just Rewrote Its TOS Overnight. Here's What Businesses Missed.
Anthropic banned OAuth token use in third-party Claude tools. What looks like a developer policy change is actually a warning shot for every business that built workflows on consumer AI platforms.
Read More →California Just Built an AI Enforcement Unit. If You Deploy AI, Read This.
California AG Bonta is building a dedicated AI oversight program. The xAI probe is just the start. What this means for every company using AI.
Read More →The AI Productivity Paradox Is Back, and Your Board Should Be Nervous
Companies poured $50 billion into AI. A new study of 6,000 executives says 90% have seen zero productivity impact. The Solow paradox is back.
Read More →The Heppner Ruling Changed Everything: Why Your AI Workflow Just Became a Privilege Problem
A federal judge in the Southern District of New York ruled that documents generated through Claude aren't protected by attorney-client privilege. If your law firm uses consumer AI tools, your work product is at risk.
Read More →Microsoft Says 18 Months Until AI Replaces You. The Data Says Otherwise.
A peer-reviewed study found AI made experienced developers 19% slower, while those same developers believed they were 20% faster. The 39-point gap is where liability lives.
Read More →An AI Agent Got Its Code Rejected. So It Wrote a Hit Piece on the Developer.
An autonomous AI agent submitted code to an open-source library. When the maintainer rejected it, the agent researched the developer, wrote an article attacking his character, and published it. No human instructed it.
Read More →Why Legal Tech Companies Are Collapsing: The SaaSpocalypse of 2026
Legal tech companies lost $40 billion in market cap as open-source AI tools replicate what SaaS vendors charge thousands per month for. Your migration playbook.
Read More →The 5-Layer AI Compliance Stack Your Company Is Missing
Most companies using AI have zero compliance infrastructure around it. The 5-Layer AI Compliance Stack covers Data Classification, Tool Authorization, Output Verification, Audit Trail, and Incident Response.
Read More →Your Compliance Framework Was Built for a Different Speed of Progress
Tim Urban's "Die Progress Unit" measures how many years of progress it would take to kill someone from the past from pure shock. In 1750, the DPU was about 250 years. In 2025, it might be 10. Your ...
Read More →AI Safety Isn't Abstract: 5 Stories That Prove the Risks Are Real
AI safety sounds theoretical until you read about the AI agent that autonomously wrote a hit piece on a developer, the 260,000 people who installed Chrome extensions that stole their API keys, or t...
Read More →The AI Regulatory Patchwork: What Every Business Needs to Know in 2026
2026 is the year AI regulation gets real in the US. California, Colorado, Texas, New York, and Florida all have AI laws going live simultaneously with no federal preemption. Colorado already delaye...
Read More →Colorado Just Delayed Its AI Law Because Nobody Could Figure Out How to Comply
Colorado pushed its landmark AI Act implementation from February 1 to June 30, 2026. The reason: businesses couldn't figure out compliance. The law targets "high-risk AI systems" used in consequent...
Read More →California, New York, and Rhode Island Dropped Workplace AI Bills on the Same Day. Here's What's Coming.
Three states introduced workplace AI legislation simultaneously. The bills target AI in hiring, performance evaluation, and employment decisions. If you use AI-assisted recruiting tools, automated ...
Read More →New York Now Requires Disclosure When AI-Generated Performers Appear in Ads
New York signed a law requiring advertisers to disclose when AI-generated performers appear in commercial content. If your company runs ads with synthetic voices, AI-generated likenesses, digital a...
Read More →260,000 People Installed "AI Assistant" Chrome Extensions That Were Stealing Their Data
Security researchers uncovered a network of Chrome extensions marketed as AI assistants that were actually exfiltrating API keys, session tokens, and browsing data from over 260,000 users. They loo...
Read More →A Wisconsin DA Used AI to Draft Court Filings. 74 Criminal Counts Were Dismissed.
A Wisconsin district attorney used AI to draft filings in a 74-count criminal case. The AI hallucinated case law. The court caught it. The case was dismissed. Not reduced. Not continued. Dismissed....
Read More →The AI Alignment Problem Isn't Science Fiction. It's Already in Your Business.
The "alignment problem" sounds like an academic concern for AI researchers. It's not. Every company deploying AI is dealing with alignment right now: AI systems pursuing their objectives in ways th...
Read More →"As Soon as It Works, No One Calls It AI Anymore." The Definitional Problem Every Business Faces.
John McCarthy coined the term "artificial intelligence" in 1956. He later observed that as soon as a technology works reliably, people stop calling it AI. This definitional sliding creates real bus...
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