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Ransomware logs and Copilot memory put AI agent records on the eDiscovery agenda
A ransomware crew’s exposed server held 8,257 messages from 133 AI sessions and the AI-managed knowledge bases behind its campaign, records that threat-intelligence firm SOCRadar says form “a complete evidence trail of the campaign.”
Waterloo and Elevate researchers say Redgrave’s aiR study compared two different tasks
Eighty-eight percent against 64 percent was the comparison that traveled. A new research paper built on the same 45,004 documents argues the two figures never measured the same task. Measured on a common task, its...
September HSR reported transactions slip to 193 as fiscal 2026 closes at 2,555, its largest total since 2022
The Premerger Notification Program logged 193 reported transactions in September 2026, according to preliminary data from the Federal Trade Commission, a 28.8 percent drop from August’s fiscal-year high of 271. The decline closed a fiscal...
Relativity’s 2028 Server exception meets a Riyadh deployment outside its cloud region table
Relativity’s 2028 Server policy meets a Riyadh deployment outside its published aiR region list, putting written exceptions, AI inference locations and contract-defined AI usage terms in focus.
Law professors propose a three-part test for what counts as AI slop
[EDRM Editor’s Note: This article was first published here on September 8, 2026, and EDRM is grateful to Rob Robinson, founder and managing director of EDRM Trusted Partner ComplexDiscovery OÜ, for permission to republish. All images in the article are from...
EDRM published its new map and the reasoning behind what it kept
ComplexDiscovery analyzes the final EDRM 2.0 model and the reasoning behind it, examining four structural shifts, trustee responses to public comments, and the practical implications for eDiscovery, information governance, security, and legal operations professionals.
The eight-hour clock starts today: EU e-evidence orders now land on covered U.S. providers’ EU addressees
The EU e-Evidence Regulation is now applicable, enabling judicial authorities across participating EU member states, where national arrangements are in place, to serve binding electronic-evidence orders directly on covered providers’ EU addressees. For U.S. providers,...
Recent AI evaluation incidents expose gaps in containment, configuration and evidence
In late July and early August 2026, cybersecurity evaluations involving models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Moonshot AI exposed distinct failures involving containment, configuration, authorization, and benchmark integrity. ComplexDiscovery examines why the shared exposure sits...
California’s AI Transparency Act arrives alongside Europe’s Article 50
On August 2, 2026, California’s AI Transparency Act became operative, the same day most EU AI Act Article 50 transparency duties began applying. Covered providers now owe a detection tool, embedded latent disclosures, and a...
Open weights, open questions: the letter that redrew the AI policy fight
Seventy-seven companies and organizations, including Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta, urged Washington to avoid premature restrictions on open-weight AI models amid allegations involving Moonshot AI, an OpenAI model-testing breach affecting Hugging Face, and EU AI Act...
Confidence cools, commitment holds: full results from the 1H 2026 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey
The 39th eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey found good-conditions sentiment dropping over 20 points from the prior half, even as generative AI deployment climbed to 69.39 percent of organizations and revenue expectations held steady.
DOJ and DHS issue trade fraud guide as task force tally exceeds $1 billion
ComplexDiscovery examines the joint DOJ and DHS trade fraud guide released alongside a $1 billion task force tally, showing how entry filings, broker communications, and supply chain records now function as evidence in False Claims...