We all tend to anthropomorphize AI, and the AI industry particularly likes to borrow terminology from neuroscience and human cognition. “Neural networks,” for example, are named after, but only loosely similar to, biological neurons. One...

On September 10, 2026, Governor Newsom signed SB 1119, known as Adam’s Law, substantially expanding California’s requirements for companion chatbots when used by children. This is California’s second companion chatbot statute, building on SB 243,...

Courts have spent years working through how the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) applies to web scraping, including whether access to a website occurs “without authorization.” In Amazon.com Services, LLC v. Perplexity AI, Inc.,...

On July 1, the Federal Trade Commission released a proposed policy statement addressing “the suppression of accuracy” in AI systems. The statement takes the position that consumers expect AI systems to produce “accurate” outputs, and...

As our clients prepare for automated decision-making (ADM) requirements beginning in 2027 in California, Colorado, and Connecticut, we’d like to clear up a few myths about ADM. For this article, we use “ADM” as shorthand...

Most discussions of “AI red-teaming” still conjure typing clever prompts into a chat window to coax a model into saying something it should not. That remains useful, but it is insufficient for agentic products that...