AI law won’t wait for you.
Neither does ICYMI.
The weekly AI law and policy briefing. Human-reviewed. Always current. Built for legal professionals.
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New York Just Wrote the Rules for AI Companions Talking to Children
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Legal tech has discovered the word “ontology.”
Strip it back and it means a map of which authorities relate to which, which ones bind, and which are still good law. The test for any of these launches isn’t the vocab.
It’s when the map is wrong, who notices, and how fast?
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Our latest edition of ICYMI (#29) is officially live on Substack!
It is a bumper edition covering 12 key developments in 7 days.
Read it here : icymithelonious.substack.com…
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Six AI matters landed last week. Five were brought under laws written before generative AI existed.
Copyright. Iowa consumer fraud. California privacy. UK GDPR. Illinois biometric law.
Nobody is waiting for AI legislation.
ICYMI Vol 28:
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First in our series spotlighting the organisations shaping responsible AI with ARIAM, working to ensure AI advances alongside creativity, copyright and audience trust.
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AI can find the case.
Who checked it?
Every AI lawsuit and regulator investigation we track is reviewed by a legal professional before it reaches you, with their initials on the record.
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Q3's defining AI law story wasn't copyright. It was child safety.
California signed 13 bills on 10 Sept, led by Adam's Law (SB 1119): up to $5,000 per child, $15,000 if wilful, a private right of action, obligations from 1 July 2027.
Movement 01 of 8: thelonious.net/ai-law-quarte…
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Q3 took 13 weeks. We kept 8 movements.
Q4 arrives every Thursday in ICYMI, free: icymithelonious.substack.com
The Q3 report: thelonious.net/ai-law-quarte…
Before publishing our Q3 report, we ran it back through our own platform.
It flagged 1 line.
We fixed it before a single reader saw it.
AI finds it. A legal mind verifies it. Including on our own work.
The corrected report is free: thelonious.net/ai-law-quarte…
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Q3 2026 in AI law: 69 developments, 12 jurisdictions.
Here are the 8 movements that changed the risk picture. 🧵
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06 Compute became a planning-law problem.
07 The state became a customer, not only a regulator.
08 The profession's own duty of care.
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All 8, with the full chronology, in one free 36-page report.
Every item human verified: thelonious.net/ai-law-quarte…
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Q3 2026 in AI law: 69 developments, 12 jurisdictions, 8 movements that altered the landscape.
Every item verified by a qualified legal professional before publication.
Free 36-page report: thelonious.net/ai-law-quarte…
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