AI in Law & Legal: Today’s Top Stories — 31 August 2026
The past week has been defined by Big Tech’s direct entry into legal AI, with Google launching a purpose-built enterprise legal platform to join OpenAI and Anthropic. Simultaneously, the UK’s most senior civil judge publicly predicted AI will decide...
AI Agents vs the Human C-Suite in EU AI Act Crisis Simulations
The EU AI Act is reshaping how organisations think about governance, accountability and risk — and raising a new question amongst leadership teams and technologists alike: can AI agents realistically participate in crisis simulations traditionally handled by the C-suite?
Using AI in Legal Work: A Practical Verification Framework
Generative AI is already embedded in legal work. Lawyers are using it for research, for drafting, for summarising evidence, for reviewing correspondence. The question of whether the profession should engage with these tools has been overtaken by events. It already has.
