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Phoenix, AZ
Joined August 2019
We're launching the Applied Legal AI Credential at ASU Law on December 18! Hands-on AI training for attorneys: build tools, work with agents, evaluate vendors, and earn a digital credential. Up to 5 AZ CLE hours, including ethics. events.asucollegeoflaw.com/a…
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I texted my children that we got the puppy they’ve been begging me for and sent them a link with pictures. 🐶When they clicked on the link, it took them to a webpage that said YOU’RE GROUNDED. They’ll be spending the weekend retaking our family’s cybersecurity training course.
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What do you do when OpenAI calls and asks you to make a set of plugins for the AMLAW250?  You gather the most elite lawyers and builders you can find and, of course, start a podcast. Welcome to Episode 1 of the @LegalQuants podcast, available now on YouTube, Spotify, and your favorite podcasting platform. We explore the tips, tricks, techniques, and most importantly, the humans leading the most consequential era of the practice of law. Sharing the full episode here for fun. You can find it at youtube.com/@legalquants
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Another vulnerability few are talking about: I found my Claude Code exposing personal data in http headers because the sites it curled politely asked agents to identify their users 😊 Epistemic cybersecurity is the hot new category for 2027.
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PSA: in light of recent cyberattacks and vulnerabilities, I recommend everyone: * use a good password manager (1Password) and do not duplicate passwords * use two factor auth for everything important (not via sms!! Google Authenticator or better yet YubiKey) * Auto-updates on, and restart weekly so they actually install * Freeze your credit * Get an IRS Identity Protection PIN * Get your cell carrier to give you a port-out PIN or number lock that makes the carrier refuse to move your number without the PIN You can ask your claude code to audit what on your laptop is out of date and needs updating.
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my sister is a freshman in college me: what do the other kids think about ai my sister: oh everyone hates it me: but are they using it…? my sister: well duh everyone is. everyone is on chat/gemini/claude for their classes stated preference ≠ revealed preference
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TRACKED CHANGES: Ropes & Gray now lets all of its associates count up to 100 hours of experimenting with AI toward their billable targets, Reuters reports.
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Gamifying legal work for lawyers with crackhead work ethic is diabolical. I already work 60-100hrs a week in some cases but turning it into a game just to flex on in house plebs? Fuck it. Sign me up let's see where this goes.
introducing Promethee, an app that turns your work into a multiplayer game, to perform. now available for everyone. promethee.io
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Confirmed: @Muse can sue people in small claims court
My first task for Muse: filing a lawsuit in small claims court. Let's see how it does...
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Talked to a Stanford prof last night who told me that AI has led to students all acing all the homeworks, never showing up to office hours, and then failing the final exams in-person. So in response the department is changing the TA's purpose, by eliminating office hours and requiring students meet with TAs 1:1 and walking them through each coding assignment to demonstrate they actually understand what's going on in the code.
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Ding ding! this was never really a great vehicle for the broader questions of Copyright and AI Training — the Opinion did a good job of cutting through the smokescreen … THOMSON REUTERS vs ROSS INTELLIGENCE - 3rd Circuit opinion is now available ... case should also not be given Cert by #SCOTUS - again a bad vehicle for considering the broader questions ... chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/…
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Last week, I wrote about what data center investment could mean for Arizona. Another $600+ million a year could mean: - $10,000 for every public school teacher. - Roughly half the annual cost of the ESA program. - No state income tax for people earning under $50,000. - More funding to secure Arizona's water future. I'd much rather debate what we should spend the money on than whether we should welcome the investment at all.
What could a larger data center industry help Arizona afford? @PwCUS estimates the industry generated $607 million in state taxes in 2024. @PewResearch counted 98 operating data centers here and nearly as many planned or under construction. What if a larger industry eventually doubled its tax contribution? To put another $607 million in perspective: - That's $10,000 for each of Arizona's roughly 60,000 public school teachers. - We could cover roughly half the annual cost of the ESA program. - We could eliminate state income tax for people earning less than $50,000 a year. - We could fund roughly 173,000 acre-feet of additional water, assuming we could secure and deliver supplies at $3,500 per acre-foot. Nearly a quarter of Arizona's Colorado River reductions. And this doesn't include the local revenue flowing to cities and counties. Different priorities. Different possibilities. None of this is a forecast or a spending plan. But it gives you a sense of scale. We spend a lot of time asking what new investment will require of Arizona. What if we started asking what it could help Arizona afford? Here's how we can ensure the benefits reach Arizonans. 🧵
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every major company is arriving at roughly the same offering: persistent memory, email/calendar/messages, browser + computer use, background tasks, proactive notifications, voice, app/tool execution, ambient context, & some notion of a personal agent sitting above everything. remarkable levels of convergence with very little differentiation whatsoever.
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"AI slop" is threatening courts' ability to function, appeals court says. ow.ly/NRZU50ZPKuc @amandasrobert
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The world is not ready for the amount of people soon to be walking around with these types of devices
1/ Better robot models come from better data. That takes two things: hardware that captures it fully, and tooling that turns it into training signal. We built the first. Today, @GroundedSI launches the second: Grounded API. Access both hardware + API ↓
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Astra for Law: Frontier intelligence built for your practice. A new offering powered by GPT-6 Astra with tools, settings, and context to support the expertise and judgment of lawyers and legal technology firms.
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Also today: Claude Docs, Claude Slides, and Claude Design are in every conversation. Ask Claude for a presentation and you get one you can open, edit, and export as PowerPoint or PDF. Same for a document or a design. There's no separate tool to navigate to. They're just in the chat.
Replying to @claudeai
You can also now make decks, docs, and designs in your conversation. Draft the one-pager in Claude Docs, turn it into a deck with Claude Slides, and mock up a matching visual in Claude Design, all from one place.
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I agree with Orin. And from my vantage, there seems to be a growing divide between two camps in the academy. The first treats knowledge claims as a product and, so long as those claims are true and useful, the involvement of AI in their generation is largely immaterial. The second sees the value of knowledge claims as inseparable from provenance, with the worth of a claim inextricably bound up with its genesis. My (admittedly armchair) sense is that the divide centers roughly on determinacy, both within and beyond the legal academy. In determinate fields (or jurisprudential modalities), where the academy seeks objective, falsifiable findings, the first camp's norms dominate. For example, it makes little difference whether Copernicus or an AI proposes the heliocentric model of our solar system. The key is that it is correct, which carries meaningful implications for future knowledge discovery. In indeterminate fields, where the academic pursuit is instead driven by judgment, reasoning, and persuasion, the second camp's norms predominate. In these spaces, the "right answer" to an issue isn't discerned by acquiring some heretofore missing knowledge, but rather by "making the case" for the normatively optimal path forward given the (fully explicable) tradeoffs at issue. Within this framework, having AI craft an argument feels much more uncomfortable, as it involves outsourcing considerations of morality and equity to a synthetic machine. With apologies to Langdell, my sense is that most of the legal academy's work falls in the second camp, and I therefore expect that its norms will develop in an AI-skeptical direction as a result. At least for anything beyond ministerial tasks like cite-checking, proofreading, and editing.
Replying to @MichaelRapp
I don't think a legal argument is like curing cancer. More on this next week!
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📢 New policy brief: Dozens of U.S. jurisdictions still have unconstitutional and discriminatory laws on the books. But sifting through thousands of local codes by hand is infeasible. Our latest brief demonstrates how AI can make legal codes legible again, starting with discriminatory laws hiding in plain sight. hai.stanford.edu/policy/maki…
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Astra has successfully beat all 48 levels of the “I’m Not a Robot” game:
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