Latest State of AI survey. GenAI use has jumped to 65% of organisations (nearly doubling year-on-year), 42% flag legal and compliance risk, and CEO-level AI oversight correlates with bottom-line impact.
New Small-class model with 128k context, multimodal input, and ~150 tokens/sec. Apache 2.0 licence, on-device deployment, and tuned for fast conversational and low-latency tool-calling use cases.
Legal Tech in Leeds Report (PDF)
[Internal AG resource] Snapshot of the Leeds legal tech ecosystem - vendors, firms, and public sector activity in the region. Useful context for anyone working on UK regional tech strategy.
Mindmaps for Notebook LM
Google added mindmap generation to NotebookLM, so any uploaded corpus can be visualised as a connected knowledge map. Handy for rapidly orienting in a new practice area or deal room.
Reads Cleary's outright acquisition of Springbok as a signal that top-tier firms see AI as core infrastructure, not a procurement line item. Notable for the female-led AI Acceleration leadership.
LexisNexis uses model distillation to get near-frontier performance on specific legal tasks at much lower cost and latency. Practical example of the "smaller, specialised models" thesis.
Shared common-law foundation plus the UK's ABS regime and close firm-vendor collaboration have made British legal tech unusually exportable to the US.
Surveys how OpenAI, Microsoft, Salesforce and others each define "agent" differently, and how the marketing has drained the term of meaning. Good read before you sign anything that promises "agentic AI."
Protege lets lawyers complete research and drafting by voice rather than typed prompts, with multi-agent reasoning and expert witness analytics. Early signal of voice becoming a real interface mode for legal work.
Round-up of firms bolting on new AI platforms, integrations and client offerings. Useful competitive scan for anyone tracking firm-side AI announcements.
Day-one Legalweek read. US firms are stitching together off-the-shelf tools plus in-house builds, while European firms remain more cautious on bespoke development.
Reuters coverage of the Cleary/Springbok deal. Shorter read than the 3 Geeks piece if you just want the facts.
Richard Tromans' Legalweek takeaways - the pace of agentic AI, smaller vendors closing on incumbents, and the global correlation between rule of law and legal tech adoption.
Legalweek: Legal Tech AI Main Takeaways (PDF)
[Internal AG resource] AG internal synthesis of the key AI themes from Legalweek New York. Saves you reading the full conference coverage.
Warns that if GenAI eats the foundational work, early-career lawyers will develop shallow understanding rather than real judgment. Practical implications for training and supervision models.
ChatGPT Team plan for small-to-mid enterprises - shared workspaces, admin console, data privacy guarantees. Relevant if you're advising clients on AI rollouts without a full Enterprise contract.
Two new reasoning agents for Copilot: Researcher (deep research across work data) and Analyst (Python-based data analysis with iterative reasoning). Microsoft's answer to OpenAI Deep Research.
Case study of Simmons & Simmons' internal GenAI platform built on Azure OpenAI. Percy 2.0 is now daily-driver tooling for most of the firm, built around RAG for factual grounding.
Law Insider's contract database exposed via GPT integrations - search clauses, compare precedents, build drafts with contract-aware context. Useful for any team experimenting with contract intelligence workflows.
Provocative paper arguing that GenAI will force US law schools into structural redesign, not just curriculum tweaks. Worth reading for the pipeline and training implications even if you think "end of" is too strong.
Syllo's white paper on using coordinated multi-LLM agents for litigation document review. Claims high recall and precision on real matters, with a meaningful cut in discovery cost and time.
RCT-backed finding that individuals using AI match the performance of human teams on knowledge-work tasks. Mollick's argument: treat AI as a teammate rather than a tool.
Non-profit building open standards and shared infrastructure for legal technology interoperability. Early but worth tracking for anyone frustrated by vendor lock-in and siloed data.