Apparently even lawyers see AI as a useful tool.

https://www.bespacific.com/ai-native-firms-are-luring-frustrated-lawyers-away-from-big-law/

AI-Native Firms Are Luring Frustrated Lawyers Away From Big Law

BloombergLaw  [no paywall ]: “AI-native firms may not be taking Big Law’s market share, but they are making incursions into a valuable asset: talent. “The AI-forward attorneys are chafing at the slow pace of firm adoption and archaic thinking,” said Sam Shaddox, 38, a co-founder of Seattle’s Talairis Law Group. “They’re migrating to the firms that are leading the way on AI, or leaving Big Law entirely to chart their own path.” Shaddox and Matt Souza met at the University of Washington School of Law, cut their teeth at Perkins Coie, and spent years inside legal departments of Seattle-area tech companies. In May, they launched Talairis Law Group to advise startups with the help of AI agents. The number of law firms branded as “AI-native” or “AI-powered” is growing quickly, backed by millions in venture capital. Many of their leaders left major law firms early in their careers to launch businesses aimed at young companies and entrepreneurs. Logan Brown, a 30-year-old Harvard graduate and former Cooley LLP associate, officially launched Soxton AI in New York in December. JP Mohler, 36, was an associate at WilmerHale and Cooley after Harvard Law School and tinkered with AI tools at Casetext and Reuters before forming General Legal through Y Combinator with two co-founders. Some Big Law veterans are also heeding the call. Norm Law appointed Mike Schmidtberger, the former Sidley Austin executive committee chair in January. Moritz, a San Francisco firm whose CEO and co-founder served as OpenAI counsel, has hired attorneys from Cooley, Goodwin Procter, and Fenwick & West. General Legal’s 14 full-time lawyers are almost entirely Big Law alumni. They were recruited in part because mid-level associates are “frustrated” by a partnership track that offers little control and years of deferred reward, Mohler said. All full-time lawyers receive equity in the company, which provides flat-fee contract and employment law services. General Legal has raised $11.5 million and reached $2 million in annualized revenue, Mohler said. That’s a speck of what large firms see in revenue each year and less than one-fifth of what the average Kirkland & Ellis partner earns in annual profits. Still, Mohler has lofty goals. “Ten years, it will be the biggest law firm in the world,” he said. Change will unfold “a lot faster than any previous kind of disruptive cycle.” He says he is aiming for “venture capital scale”—meaning a company ultimately valued between $10 billion to $100 billion…” AI-native law firms like Soxton and Talairis are built around artificial intelligence from the ground up—every workflow, pricing model, and staffing decision is designed assuming AI does the first pass of the work…”

Does AI really cause population decline?

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2026/07/14/2003860695

China can ban AI boyfriends, but cannot make men listen

A man who listens with empathy, offers emotional support and is available whenever you need him? Sounds ideal. As Elon Musk’s Grok serves up pig-tailed, scantily clad anime-girl companions, China’s artificial intelligence romance boom has found a different audience: women.

That might explain why Beijing is moving to rein it in. At a time of plunging marriage and birth rates, China is set to become the first country to impose comprehensive rules aimed at curbing the harms of anthropomorphic AI, with a new regulation taking effect next week.

Too logical to survive?

https://thenextweb.com/news/australia-ai-policy-copyright-energy

Australia tells AI data centres to put back more power than they take out

Anthony Albanese has told the AI industry that Australian books, music, and journalism are not free training data, and that any large data centre built in the country will have to put more electricity into the grid than it draws out. Neither of those things is law yet.

… The energy obligation is the sharpest thing in the speech. Operators of the next generation of large data centres would be required to underwrite new power supply, pay their full share of grid connection so that no costs land on homes or businesses, and put at least as much energy into the grid as they take out of it.

It’s kind of a person for AI that can’t be a person.

https://thenextweb.com/news/delaware-aic-ai-agent-legal-entity-sandbox

Delaware wants to give AI agents their own legal identity

Delaware wants to give AI agents something no one has offered them before: a legal identity of their own. The proposed Delaware AIC would let an autonomous system run a company, sign contracts, and face lawsuits in its own name, all inside a supervised sandbox.