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The newest articles, observations and commentary from the intersection of law, business and artificial intelligence.
Analysis
Too much in too little time
Refrigerators sabotaged in Europe. Websites taken offline in several countries. Microsoft down. Takeoffs halted across the United States. I don't think there is a common perpetrator. I worry there may be a common cause. And I suspect this has only just begun.
Analysis
It went down rehearsing how to get back up
Workday was testing its recovery systems. Some customers lost access. The question is how long a business can keep going when the platform it depends on fails.
Analysis
The bot is the trade’s new apprentice
In any office, information comes in, is processed using the firm’s experience and becomes a result that someone signs off. A bot can take on part of that work. It can also be taught the trade.
Analysis
Codifying the craft
A company's know-how has always passed from one mind to another. Now it can pass from a mind to a machine that applies it to every assignment. It happens little by little, and the result is the firm's most valuable asset.
Analysis
AI video takes a leap: meet its creators
A Barcelona director makes a short film in ten days and wins $100,000. A Stockholm creator takes his science fiction universe to the Los Angeles film market. Others are building series, animation and advertising. To understand the leap in AI-generated video, look at what they are making.
Analysis
AI gives us a better fishing rod. Not more fish.
AI is like a better fishing rod: you catch fish faster, but there are no more fish in the lake. An estate agency produces better adverts and a notary's office processes its files sooner. Neither gains a single extra buyer. When the whole sector improves, the savings become higher margins, time saved and fewer new hires. Small and medium-sized businesses in the housing market show why working better does not translate into growth.
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Analysis
Data centres: who pays for the party?
The bill is shared; the benefits have to be negotiated. Markets and grids can spread costs far beyond the data centre. What local residents receive depends on taxes, contracts and written commitments.
Analysis
When AI accuses the writer
An award-winning novel, an automated accusation and a question poorly answered: how much a detector proves. False positives exist. The problem begins when a classification of a text becomes a verdict on its author.
Analysis
Data embassies: can a state keep sovereignty and jurisdiction over data stored abroad?
Estonia agreed with Luxembourg on a safe haven for its data and systems. It is the most serious legal response to an urgent question: where to keep operating from if the territory falls. Its strength lies in negotiated immunities. Businesses and law firms should make that question their own.
Analysis
More intelligence in less space: AI comes to the law firm
Model makers design chips, and chip makers offer models. Intelligence is getting cheaper, while power gravitates towards factories, memory and access to users. At the same time, more compact models and better processors are bringing some of that capability into the office.
Analysis
Yandex: a warning that AI can be bombed too
Three data centers attacked in four days. Russia still does not know — or will not say — how much it has lost. But the message for every country is already clear: artificial intelligence lives in buildings, and buildings can be destroyed.
Learn to use AI
How to talk to an AI agent while it works
Steering, interrupting or queueing in Hermes, Codex, Claude Code and OpenClaw
Learn to use AI
The Sunday I left AI sorting my photos and it cost me almost €1,000
Learned the hard way · 1
AI and law
A fake job interview, an AI with too many keys and $6.34 billion
A Binance engineer is looking for a job. A recruiter contacts him through a well-known job platform. The first interview is by video: she is friendly, with personal photos and videos on her social media accounts. The second interview is by chat, with the supposed chief executive. Everything fits. Finally, the technical test: “Download this project and complete it.”
AI and law
A butler in your pocket: how Zuckerberg wants to win the AI race with Muse
Meta wants to bring AI to people who barely use it or stick to free accounts: first with a butler on their phone, then with its own devices and glasses. If that assistant searches and shops for us, who controls the internet business changes.
AI and law
AI is driving up complaints to public authorities: overhaul processes or face collapse
Artificial intelligence makes it easier to find out where to complain and how to draft a complaint, while various public bodies are receiving more submissions. If its use becomes more widespread, their ability to respond will depend on a thorough overhaul of administrative processes.
AI and law
Using AI does not mean charging less: a court ruling on legal fees and artificial intelligence
A US federal court of appeals rejects a reduction in legal fees because there was no proof that AI use had led to excessive billing. The ruling opens a discussion about the cost of tools, lawyers’ work and the hour as a measure of price.
AI and law
AI token consumption: a new product the law has not yet caught up with?
Anyone who connects an application to an AI model gets a monthly bill that says nothing about computers, electricity or server hours. It talks about tokens. That is what you buy and what you consume. And yet the law still does not know what they are.
AI and law
Is Google's business in danger?
Google's revenue keeps rising, but AI is putting its cash machine under pressure: it reduces clicks, opens the door to rivals and demands much more investment.
AI and law
Stealing an AI key: four links and someone else's meter
Clara closes the office at her administrative services firm and leaves her AI tool running. While she sleeps, someone uses her account and sells access to it. She wakes up to €1,480 in charges and a provider reminding her whose account it is.
Learn to use AI
Save what works: Git for working with AI without worrying about breaking things
Part two of How to build with AI: a folder with a memory, saved versions to return to and a simple way back when AI breaks something.
Analysis
Who is on the other end? AI can already seem human and copy a voice
I have tried free voice cloning options, and the results are quite good. That worries me: a familiar voice can convince us we are talking to someone we trust. Someone tried to deceive Ferrari that way. At Arup, a fake video call led to a multimillion-dollar loss.
Learn to use AI
Install AI on your computer and give it permission to code
First step in the How to build with AI series: install Codex or Claude Code, choose a folder and decide what your new programmer can do.
Learn to use AI
Your AI needs more than a chat: the connections that turn it into a working tool
Memory, access to a computer, email, a calendar, files and a convenient way to talk to it. Productivity comes when AI can work with what you need, without you having to copy everything from one window to another.
AI in Business
Do humans see the data you upload to your AI?
Yes, in some cases. It depends on the provider, the plan and how you configure it. What Google, OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic say, and what a law firm needs to ask before uploading client data.
AI in Business
Traffic jams are no longer wasted time
With your voice and one or more bots, you can sort your email, check your calendar, keep track of projects and make decisions about documents without touching your phone. How I do it, what works and where the limit is.
La Machina
La Machina now has controls
My bots work in separate conversations. I need to see the whole picture: who is doing what, what has stopped and what is waiting for my decision. That is why I am building La Machina’s app and interface.
AI in Business
I’ve given my AI agents a Jiminy Cricket
An external conscience that stops what is immoral, illegal or hasn’t been approved
Learn to use AI
If you are going to build with AI, start now: you are being subsidised without knowing it
I have spent months building several systems and applications with artificial intelligence at the same time. These are demanding projects, aimed at getting capabilities and results I cannot find on the market. So I have decided to build them myself.
Learn to use AI
How to build with AI: from an idea to a working system
An idea, a normal computer and an AI that can work on it: these are the steps I suggest to start building, organise the work and stay in control.
AI in Business
Greater productivity does not mean higher revenue
AI can free up time in a law firm or an architecture practice. Deciding what to do with that time is what changes the business.
La Machina
My first bot
I tried, got things wrong and tried again. The first Alonides began on Signal, moved to Telegram and ended up living on my computer, where I started cloning it.
La Machina
I wanted a JARVIS
I wanted an assistant that remembered things, did what I asked and kept the conversation going as I moved from my phone to my computer or my car. I was using AI in a chat and didn’t even know how to create a bot. This is how La Machina begins.
