On 10 October 2025, the New York State Unified Court System issued formal guidelines governing the use of AI by judges and court employees. The rules prohibit AI from making legal determinations and require that all AI-generated material be fully reviewed by the responsible judge or staff member. The aim
According to the first comprehensive benchmarking study published by LegalBenchmarks.ai in September 2025, AI tools in several cases produced contract drafts that were as accurate as, or more accurate than, those prepared by human lawyers. The study evaluated 13 AI tools across 30 real-world contract drafting tasks, where human
On August 5, 2025, Thomson Reuters announced CoCounsel Legal, an agentic AI platform, and the final version of Westlaw, functioning as an integrated, real-time legal assistant that significantly transforms how lawyers work by reducing legal research time by up to 70%. According to the company's statement, the new
Elon Musk's xAI company was hit with an environmental lawsuit on 18th June 2025, as the Nevada Clean Air Alliance and Sierra Club environmental groups initiated legal proceedings against the company for operating over 400 MW of gas turbines at its data centre in Clark County, Nevada, without
LEXam, published on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) platform, is the first comprehensive benchmark specifically measuring legal reasoning abilities of AI models using 340 authentic legal exam questions. Developed by researchers, the testing system covers regulatory frameworks from six different jurisdictions (United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, India, and
Anthropic has revealed it spent tens of millions of dollars to create a proprietary scanned books dataset used to train its Claude AI system. During legal proceedings in the Bartz v. Anthropic case on 9th June 2025, it emerged that Anthropic compiled a proprietary composition of books that Anthropic sourced,
The UK Parliament passed the Data (Use and Access) Act on June 11, 2025, which received Royal Assent on June 19, introducing significant modifications to the United Kingdom's data protection framework. The Act contains comprehensive reforms to the current UK General Data Protection Regulation and Privacy and Electronic
Walt Disney and Comcast Universal studios filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on June 11, 2025, calling it a "bottomless pit of plagiarism". In the complaint filed in California Federal Court, the companies allege that the AI image generator created and distributed innumerable copies of their iconic characters
A federal judge has ruled that Character.AI chatbots do not currently enjoy First Amendment protections in the United States. On May 21, 2025, Judge Anne Conway rejected Character Technologies' defense in a wrongful death lawsuit involving a 14-year-old boy's suicide, allowing Florida mother Megan Garcia'
Reddit filed a lawsuit on 4 June 2025 against Anthropic, alleging the AI startup unlawfully used the platform's data to train its Claude chatbot without a proper licensing agreement. This marks the first time a Big Tech company has legally challenged an AI model provider over its training
In the first five months of 2025, 73 cases were documented where artificial intelligence generated false legal citations in court documents, representing three times the 37 cases from 2024. According to legal data analyst Damien Charlotin's database, the problem is worsening: whilst only 10 cases were registered in
The United Arab Emirates approved the implementation of the world's first artificial intelligence-based legislative system on April 14, 2025, which is estimated to accelerate the lawmaking process by up to 70 percent – announced Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the country's Vice President, Prime Minister and
