The Verification-Value Paradox states that increases in efficiency from AI use “will be met by a correspondingly greater imperative to manually verify” the outputs. The result is that the net value of AI in many legal contexts may be negligible once verification is honestly accounted for. For low-stakes tasks, verification costs are light. For core legal work, verification costs are heavy. That’s the tension.
An annual tradition continues at Cybersecurity Law & Strategy as we poll our panel of experts on the key developments of 2025 and what we can expect in 2026 in AI, privacy, e-discovery and other areas of legal tech.
For rights holders, platforms and brands, the Disney-Open AI licensing deal illustrates an emerging blueprint for commercializing iconic IP in AI-native formats while attempting to manage legal, regulatory, and reputational risk.
Success in 2026 will belong to brands that combine human judgment with AI capability, communicate with discipline and focus, and treat trust as a measurable business asset, not a marketing byproduct.
Based on a review of recent case law, this article identifies three considerations that practitioners should pay attention to in cases involving AI trade secrets.
Google’s AI Overview creates a strategic opportunity for attorneys who can leverage their knowledge and experience into a decent article. This opportunity to attract more visibility, link a law firm’s blog, and drive readers to a firm’s website in Google AI Overview is our focus in this article.
The Walt Disney Co.’s newly announced, three-year licensing agreement with OpenAI to bring more than 200 characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars to Sora marks a pivotal moment at the intersection of intellectual property and generative AI. For rights holders, platforms, and brands, the deal illustrates an emerging blueprint for commercializing iconic IP in AI-native formats while attempting to manage legal, regulatory, and reputational risk.
The Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA) takes effect Jan. 1, 2026 andlimits the use of AI for social scoring and activities that legislators say violate constitutional rights. It also sets up a regulatory sandbox for testing and create an Artificial Intelligence Council to provide guidance.
U.S. chief district judges in multiple jurisdictions, including the Southern District of New York and Eastern District of Virginia, now require parties to serve opposing counsel with sealed documents outside of the federal judiciary’s electronic filing system following recent cyberattacks on the judiciary’s virtual assets.
While many corporate legal departments have been able to track their spending, few are tracking their outcome-based performance metrics, according to a report from Everlaw and the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC).
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