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Bar Battle of the Bots – Part Four: Birth of Scorpio

The AI bot battles rage on. This round, we test OpenAI’s newest contender, released April 16, 2025: ChatGPT o3. Not to be confused with its leaner sibling—ChatGPT o3-mini, which debuted in January. When we tested that old...more

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When AI Gets Personal: Legal Implications of Artificial Intimacy

ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: Emotional bonds with AI are no longer speculative—they’re shaping user behavior and redefining the risks legal professionals must address. This thoughtful exploration of artificial intimacy...more

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Custom GPTs: Why Constant Updating Is Essential for Relevance and Performance

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been immersed in the necessary but time-consuming task of updating my Custom GPTs—AI tools I designed using OpenAI’s GPT Builder platform. Some are private, tailored to my work as a lawyer,...more

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Hope for the Future: How Students Are Defining the Best Use of AI

This month I celebrated another birthday—an occasion that naturally prompts reflections on time, legacy, and the world future generations will inherit. As a legal educator, a pivotal question on my mind is how the legal...more

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New Battle of the Bots: ChatGPT 4.5 Challenges Reigning Champ ChatGPT 4o

Two AI heavyweights step into the ring: ChatGPT 4o, the reigning champion of fluency and speed, and the new challenger, ChatGPT 4.5, boasting an upgraded intellect and sharper wit. But which one is truly the best? To find...more

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The Final Challenge: How GenAI Crafted BP’s “Impossible” Closing Argument

Over the past few months, we’ve been exploring how generative AI can transform trial preparation by analyzing complex litigation materials and producing sophisticated closing arguments. Our series began with an exploration of...more

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Transforming Challenges Into Opportunities: The Case for Durable Skills in 2025

In the Art of War, Sun Tzu teaches that “[i]n the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.” As we enter 2025, the rapid changes in the legal and tech fields can feel overwhelming, like navigating through the fog of war....more

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Illumination Zone: Episode 198 | Sergey Demyanov of Beagle sits down with Kaylee & Mary

Sergey Demyanov, Founder and CEO of EDRM Trusted Partner, Beagle, sits down with Kaylee & Mary to talk about his journey to eDiscovery, the core values of Beagle, what makes Beagle so different, and what kind of legal teams...more

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Bar Battle of the Bots – Part One

The legal world is watching AI with both excitement and skepticism. Can today’s most advanced reasoning models think like a lawyer? Can they dissect complex fact patterns, apply legal principles, and construct a persuasive...more

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Breaking New Ground: Evaluating the Top AI Reasoning Models of 2025

The year 2025 has brought us closer than ever to the dawn of artificial general intelligence, with AI systems now capable of reasoning on par with humans—or even surpassing them in specific domains. In this article, I examine...more

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The Hidden Cost of AI: Energy, Water, and the Sustainability Challenge

ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: AI’s rapid advancement has led to groundbreaking technological achievements, but its environmental impact is becoming harder to ignore. As data centers expand to support AI workloads, energy...more

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Breaking the AI Black Box: How DeepSeek’s Deep-Think Forced OpenAI’s Hand

DeepSeek’s Deep-Think feature takes a small but meaningful step toward building trust between users and AI. By displaying its reasoning process step by step, Deep-Think allows users to see how the AI forms its conclusions,...more

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Why the Release of China’s DeepSeek AI Software Triggered a Stock Market Panic and Trillion Dollar Loss

DeepSeek, a startup AI company owned by a Chinese hedge fund, which is in turn owned by a young AI whiz-kid, Liang Wenfeng, claims that its newly released V-3 software-R1 was trained inexpensively and without using NVIDIA’s...more

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The Human Edge: How AI Can Assist But Never Replace

The rise of artificial intelligence has evoked both awe and apprehension. AI’s capabilities are undeniably astonishing. It can converse and respond to us like a human, answer questions—often with impressive accuracy—write...more

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Key AI Leaders of 2024: Huang, Amodei, Kurzweil, Altman, and Nobel Prize Winners – Hassabis and Hinton

Introduction - The year 2024 marked a pivotal time in artificial intelligence, where aspirations transformed into concrete achievements, cautions became more urgent, and the distinction between human and machine began to...more

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Leery Lawyer’s Guide to AI

Next month, I’m privileged to be presenting on two topics with United States District Judge Xavier Rodriguez, a dear friend who sits in the Western District of Texas (San Antonio). One of those topics is “Practical...more

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Quantum Leap: Google Claims Its New Quantum Computer Provides Evidence That We Live in a Multiverse

In the history of technological revolutions, there are moments that challenge not only our understanding of what is possible but the very nature of reality itself. Google’s latest refinement to its quantum computer, Willow,...more

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Upcoming Technology Trends in Litigation Support

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Litigation technology is becoming increasingly important to litigation support services. Firms and legal professionals are leveraging emerging legal tech despite the misconception that our profession can be stuck in its ways...more

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Optimism and Innovation in eDiscovery: Fall 2024 Business Confidence Survey Insights

ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: The 36th edition of the eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey provides a compelling narrative of an industry at the crossroads of optimism and innovation. This Fall 2024 report not only...more

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Singularity Advocate Series #1: AI with a Mind of Its Own, On Trial for its Life

Preface. For background on the story, see my non-fiction article, GPT-4 Breakthrough: Emerging Theory of Mind Capabilities in AI. To create this story, I had ChatGPT read this article and the underlying scientific paper...more

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Dataverse: Episode 1 – Surviving Conference Cosmos & AI Asteroids

Welcome to the Dataverse Cat Casey: Welcome to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Dataverse! If you’re stepping into the legal tech universe for the first time, don’t panic—we’re here to help you navigate the infinite (and...more

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Leveraging Generative AI in Complex Investigations

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Complex investigations are on the rise with investigators being asked to do more with less, therefore needing to gain efficiency to handle workloads. A complex investigation can be triggered by a litigation event, government...more

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AI, Ethics, and Excellence: Insights from November 2024’s Vendor Voices

ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: In this month’s Vendor Voices, ComplexDiscovery OÜ explores the dynamic developments in eDiscovery, cybersecurity, and information governance throughout November 2024. From the latest edition...more

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GPT-4 Breakthrough: Emerging Theory of Mind Capabilities in AI

Michal Kosinski, a computational psychologist at Stanford, has uncovered a groundbreaking capability in GPT-4.0: the emergence of Theory of Mind (ToM). ToM is the cognitive ability to infer another person’s mental state based...more

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Healing a Divided Nation: An 11-Step Path to Unity Through Human and AI Partnership

Political polarization in the United States has reached unprecedented levels, threatening the nation’s social fabric and democratic processes. To tackle this growing crisis, this article proposes a streamlined, three-phase,...more

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