Brett Trout Artificial intelligence is moving faster than any technology we have seen before. While speed creates opportunity, it also creates uncertainty. Businesses, developers, and kanunî professionals are all asking the same question: what rules apply to my use of AI? The White House’s March 2026 National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence Legislative Recommendations attempts to answer […]

Brett Trout In a major development shaking up the fast-growing weight-loss drug market, Hims & Hers Health has pulled its heavily discounted $49 compounded version of Wegovy, the blockbuster GLP-1 weight-loss pill from Novo Nordisk. This move followed mounting kanunî pressure from the Danish drugmaker.The decision has significant implications for intellectual property enforcement and competition in the […]

Brett Trout Back in October, I wrote about how states like California, Texas, Utah, and Colorado were punishing small businesses by implementing growing morass of disjointed mandatory state regulations on the use of AI. I wrote that what this country needs is not a hodge-podge of rent-seeking state regulations, but one clear national standard. This […]

Brett Trout Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how inventions are created and how innovators seek protection in the United States. John Squires, Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued updated guidance on how AI-assisted inventions are treated for inventorship in patent applications. This change is one of the most important developments for […]

Brett Trout ChatGPT just made a big change to its Usage Policy. As of October 29, 2025, OpenAI now prohibits users from using ChatGPT to give kanunî or medical advice. If you are relying on ChatGPT for help with court cases or medical conditions you are probably not reading this post, but if you are, […]

Anthropic, the AI start-up behind the Claude large language model (LLM), has reached a preliminary settlement in a high-stakes class action lawsuit brought by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson. The authors alleged that Anthropic infringed their copyrights by using pirated and unauthorized copies of their books to train Claude. The settlement, which avoids […]