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AI Daily Briefing - May 29, 2026

Your AI morning briefing for May 29, 2026 — the top stories you need to know.

Legal AI Beat Daily Briefing — May 29, 2026

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  • SEP Toll Roads: Global FRAND Rates Under Strain 2026: The global SEP licensing system, built on interoperability, is cracking under the weight of inconsistent FRAND rate-setting. What was once a predictable path is now a wild west of jurisdictional arbitrage.
  • SCOTUS Case: Does PTO Laches Override Patent Law?: The Supreme Court might soon decide if the USPTO can deny patents based on ‘prosecution laches,’ sidestepping statutory deadlines. USPTO Director John Squires just filed a brief telling them no. Here’s why you should care, even if you’re not a patent lawyer.
  • Personal Injury Lawsuits: AI Flip of Defense Advantage: The scales of justice are tilting, and AI is the weight. Personal injury law, long a bastion of traditional legal practice, is facing a seismic shift as artificial intelligence redefines the battlefield.
  • Firms Hire Laterals Over Students: Is Law School Broken?: Law firms have finally admitted it: they’d rather hire someone who’s already done the job. But what does this seismic shift mean for law schools?
  • Patent Pools: A Market Fix for Licensing Woes?: The gears of innovation are grinding, and the culprit isn’t just a lack of new ideas, but a fundamental imbalance in how we value and license them. Matteo Sabattini, a licensing veteran, argues the system needs a recalibration, pointing to patent pools as a potential market-driven salve.
  • ClickHouse Hits $250M ARR, Eyes IPO: ClickHouse just announced a staggering $250 million in annualized revenue, a threefold increase year-over-year. This explosive growth signals a clear IPO trajectory in a market hungry for stable, high-performing tech.
  • D.C. Court: Public Dockets Don’t Kill Copyright: So, the attorneys thought they could just grab a consultant’s report off the public docket and use it for free? Turns out, even D.C. courts aren’t that dumb.
  • AI’s Legal Awakening: Gerasimow Law Seeks Associate: We’ve all been waiting for the AI revolution to hit the legal world with a bang, a courtroom drama of silicon versus gavel. Well, it’s not quite that dramatic, but the change is coming, and it’s arriving in the form of new job descriptions.
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