More questions about AI’s impact on the legal system are showing up in real-world rulings across the country — this week, when an expert uses AI tools to help parse and review documents. In Conservation Law Foundation v. Shell Oil, a Connecticut federal court ordered revised discovery responses about prompts or queries used by an expert witness and her team while preparing an expert report. Outside commentary is already treating the order as a signal that AI workflows may become a new angle on expert methodology inquiries. Today’s issue explores this case further in Supplemental No. 03: When an Expert Team Used AI to Search Case Documents.

Forty-four state attorneys general are opposing federal child-safety legislation over concerns that stronger state frameworks could be preempted. The federal bill, H.R. 7757, covers a wide array of policy areas including online obscenity, online harms to children, online platforms, social gaming, and AI chatbots.

While the policy fight continues, AI is amplifying cybercrime at an alarming rate. NCMEC says CyberTipline reports involving generative AI rose to 1.5 million in 2025, up from 67,000 in 2024 and 4,700 in 2023.

Some celebrities are pursuing federal trademarks for their likenesses as AI exposes gaps in state publicity laws.

Illinois is pushing forward with a bill to regulate major AI labs, building on a 2025 framework passed in California.

High-powered AI capabilities will be preloaded on a suite of new Windows laptops this fall, U.S. tech giant Nvidia said Monday.

The Initial Report is written and edited by Grant Morgan, a former prosecutor who tried high-level felonies and assisted in complex investigations before turning his attention to how artificial intelligence is reshaping the day-to-day work of American prosecutors. The Initial Report tracks the tools, court rulings, and enforcement actions shaping that work.

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