On June 22, 2025, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA) into law. Despite the ongoing debate in the U.S. Senate over the provision in the reconciliation bill that declares a moratorium on the ability of states to legislate artificial intelligence (AI), the signing of HB 149 is a
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Lawyers Continue to Get in Hot Water For Citing AI Hallucinated Cases
By Linn Foster Freedman on
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We have previously outlined several cases where lawyers have been sanctioned by courts for citing fake cases generated by artificial intelligence (AI), also known as “hallucinations.”
Now, we don’t even have to keep track of the cases to report on them because we found a nifty new database that keeps track of all of them.
State Lawmakers Oppose Proposed 10 Year Freeze on AI Laws + Regulations
By Linn Foster Freedman on
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On June 3, 2025, a bipartisan group of 260 state lawmakers sent a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives and the U. S. Senate expressing “strong opposition to the provision in Subtitle C, Part 2 of the tax and budget reconciliation bill, which would undermine ongoing work in the states to address the impact…
50% of Professional Services Users Have Utilized AI Tools Not Authorized by Company
By Linn Foster Freedman on
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A new survey from Intapp, titled “2025 Tech Perceptions Survey Report,” summarizes findings from a survey of fee-earners that there has been a “surge in AI usage.” The professions surveyed included accounting, consulting, finance, and legal sectors. Findings include that “AI usage among professionals has grown substantially, with 72% using AI at work versus…
Bipartisan Take It Down Act Becomes Law
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
On Monday, May 19, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the “Take It Down Act” into law. The Act, which unanimously passed the Senate and cleared the House in a 409-2 vote, criminalizes the distribution of intimate images of someone without their consent. Lawmakers from both parties have commented that the law is long…
AI Service Provider Faces Class Actions Over Catholic Health Data Breach
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
AI service provider Serviceaide Inc. faces two proposed class action lawsuits from a data breach tied to Catholic Health System Inc., a nonprofit hospital network in Buffalo, New York. The breach reportedly exposed the personal information of over 480,000 individuals, including patients and employees.
Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of…
Generative AI Training may not Qualify for the Fair Use Defense
By Daniel Lass on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
Last week, the Copyright Office released the third and final part of its report exploring copyright-related issues posed by artificial intelligence (AI). Unlike the first two parts, the third was released as a “pre-publication” version. It was published less than a day after Dr. Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, was fired by President Trump…
Workado Settles With FTC Over Alleged Misrepresentations of AI Accuracy
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a press release this week announcing that it settled with Workado over alleged misrepresentations of its ability to detect whether content was generated by artificial intelligence (AI) or humans.
Workado’s AI Content Detector was marketed to consumers as a tool to decipher whether online content was generated by AI…
Threat Actors Use AI to Launch Identity Theft Scams
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
Identity theft will continue to rise in 2025. According to the Better Business Bureau of Missouri (BBB), it received over 16,000 identity theft complaints in the past three years. Scammers are “increasingly using advanced tactics such as artificial intelligence to exploit victims.”
The BBB notes that threat actors are taking over social media accounts to…
AI Powered Bot Targeted 400,000 Websites
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SentinelOne researchers have discovered AkiraBot, which is used to target small- to medium-sized company websites with generative AI, and drafted outreach messages for website chats, comments, and contact forms. SentinelOne estimates that over 400,000 websites have been targeted, and the bot has successfully spammed “at least 80,000 websites since September 2024.”
The bot generated…