As we enter the end of the summer, the AI regulatory steam is not slowing down. Colorado is now the first US state to have a comprehensive AI law (going into effect February 1, 2026), and the EU published its sweeping AI law...more
Investors are targeting AI developers and buying proprietary data sets to build new AI businesses. Here we explain how to manage risk in this fast-evolving space. When MIT named generative AI as one of its breakthrough...more
ChatGPT and subsequent artificial intelligence (AI) programs have been in the headlines recently. Not as common is the discussion of the cost associated with developing and operating such AI tools or if such AI is right for...more
In many ancient cultures people believed that everything had a spirit. Each human, animal, plant, and even each rock and bolt of lightning were understood as we understand ourselves. If we eat because we feel hunger, so must...more
California employers must ensure that compensation rates for computer professionals meet updated salary thresholds, as of January 1, 2022. The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) issued a memo on October 18,...more
Four Essential Principles of Quantum Computation The answer to the question “what is a quantum computer?” encompasses quantum mechanics (QM), quantum information theory (QIT) and computer science (CS). It is a device that...more
Supreme Court Rules in Google’s Favor in Copyright Dispute with Oracle Over Android Software - After the Supreme Court's April 6 decision in Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., 141 S.Ct. 1183 (2021), the computer software...more
The promise of quantum computers is that certain computational tasks might be executed exponentially faster on a quantum processor than on a classical processor. Quantum computing is a beautiful fusion of quantum physics...more
With the H-1B cap season about to begin, there is good news for computer programmers and those who employ them. USCIS announced the immediate rescission of a 2017 guidance memo that had raised questions about whether computer...more
This week, the Ninth Circuit resolves a novel question about continuing violations under the Defend Trade Secrets Act, and invalidates an agency’s conclusion that computer programmers are not entitled to “specialty...more
As of January 1, 2021, California employers must ensure that compensation rates for computer professionals meet the updated salary thresholds. In a memo issued on October 16, 2020 the California Department of Industrial...more
If you want a glimpse of the future, check out how developers are using gpt-3. This natural language processor was trained on parameters ten times greater than its most sophisticated rival and can be used to answer...more
The decade-old battle between two technology powerhouses—Google and Oracle—potentially reshaping the future of software will now continue into the Supreme Court’s next term. Referred to in the media as the copyright lawsuit...more
In our prior post, we introduced the controversy at the center of “the copyright lawsuit of the decade” between Google and Oracle. Since then, both parties and 61 amici have submitted their briefs to the Supreme Court. This...more
Referred to as “the copyright case of the century,” the Supreme Court could determine the fate of software protection in Google v. Oracle, namely that of Java. At its core, the case asks whether software programmers may copy...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While it always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, the last few months have seen an unprecedented number of changes. April 2017 was another month...more
We commented on all those public announcements about H-1B’s in our blog of April 5, 2017, skeptical as to whether they indicated that the program would really be restructured. Then on April 18, the President issued his...more