Industry Insights
What Solo Lawyers Should Actually Look for in Legal AI
Legal AI for solo lawyers isn’t the same as enterprise tools. Here’s what actually matters when choosing a legal AI platform.
Sabih Siddiqi
4 min read
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Irys Insights
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AI Research by Devansh
Writing on reasoning systems, AI infrastructure, and the engineering decisions behind Irys — read by thousands of practitioners.
Apr 2026 · 39 min read
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Launch Is Built on Misinformation
A primary-source investigation for developers and security researchers who want the real story about what the Data says about Mythos
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Apr 2026 · 17 min read
AI Isn't a Software Business Anymore
AI Market Report March 2026: Google’s price war, America’s shadow-banking energy play, and why the whole AI stack just fractured into four industries — each with different economics.
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Apr 2026 · 3 min read
Come Meet me in SF and Vegas
Saleforce TDX, Google Cloud Next and more..
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Apr 2026 · 3 min read
How to use AI for Cutting Edge Research
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Mar 2026 · 10 min read
Why Ben Horowitz and I Are Investing in Humanity’s Greatest Untapped Asset
From Societal Bottleneck to High-Yield Infrastructure
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Mar 2026 · 35 min read
Why Some Startups Are Easy to Copy While Others Aren’t
What Apple, GitHub Copilot, and legal AI reveal about how incumbents lose paradigm shifts
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Mar 2026 · 19 min read
How a Leading Venture Capitalist uses AI Agents [Guest]
A skeptic’s field guide to building personal agents that are powerful, practical, and safe
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Mar 2026 · 53 min read
The Future of On-Device AI
How Liquid AI built the Best Edge AI Model in the World. And what this reveals about the next wave of model design.
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Mar 2026 · 3 min read
How to Prompt Reasoning Models Effectively
Understanding why Reasoning Models are Different from Normal LLMs and How to Prompt them.
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Mar 2026 · 19 min read
How to Diagnose Failures in Large AI Training Clusters
A practical look at how debugging workflows, metrics, and automated runbooks are used to investigate slowdowns and failures in large-scale model training.
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Mar 2026 · 7 min read
Earth Scientist Tells You How Your Land Is Lying to You [Livestreams]
How AI turns weeks of GIS work into 10 seconds of queries
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Mar 2026 · 77 min read
How Long Context Inference Is Rewriting the Future of Transformers
A clear guide to the new architectures battling the transformer’s memory and inference bottlenecks.
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Mar 2026 · 3 min read
AI Market Report: Feb 2026. Ten Frontier Models in 28 Days
How labs differentiate when models converge, what AI coding tools actually change, and why the backlash against AI became a market force
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Mar 2026 · 42 min read
Why We Must All Support Anthropic AIs Stand Against AI-Surveillance and Weapons Systems
How Mass AI Surveillance and AI Weapons Systems Can Threaten Our Freedom
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Feb 2026 · 18 min read
Most Important AI Updates of the week. Feb 16th 2026-Feb 22 2026 [Livestreams]
why AI benchmarks are failing and more
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Feb 2026 · 52 min read
The Real Cost of Running AI
From FLOPs to GPUs to KV Cache — What Every Token Actually Costs
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Feb 2026 · 3 min read
How I taught myself to get cutting edge in AI
How to teach yourself AI- for technical folk
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Feb 2026 · 30 min read
How Fractals Can Improve How AI Models Internally Represent Information
A deep dive into hierarchy and why present AI systems are missing it.
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Feb 2026 · 12 min read
Why Silicon Valley Got Industrials Wrong [Livestreams]
Meet Philipp Wehn, the a16z Founder using AI to improve Heavy Industries.
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Feb 2026 · 12 min read
Inside Zhipu: How One of China’s AI Tigers Thinks About Building Models [Livestreams]
A candid conversation on tradeoffs, scale, and what actually matters.
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Feb 2026 · 3 min read
AI Isn’t Accelerating. It’s Settling.
How verification costs, retention curves, and stateful systems are reshaping where value accumulates
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Feb 2026 · 18 min read
Why Open Source AI is Suddenly Raising Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
Databricks, Sakana AI, Radix, and why Investors are rushing to invest in Open Source AI
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Jan 2026 · 12 min read
Why Meta Keeps Outperforming the Financial Analysts
A deepdive into the Metaverse, Open Source, and how Meta is tackling their biggest challenges.
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Jan 2026 · 9 min read
Meet Wafer: The YC Startup Making GPUs 5x More Efficient with AI [Livestreams]
What are Kernels and Why writing them better can improve GPU usage by 5x.
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AI Research
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Launch Is Built on Misinformation
A primary-source investigation for developers and security researchers who want the real story about what the Data says about Mythos
Devansh
39 min read
Industry Insights
What Legora’s $100M ARR Means for Small Firm Lawyers
Legal AI is scaling fast—but not always for small firms. Here’s what BigLaw platforms mean for AI for lawyers.
Sabih Siddiqi
3 min read
AI & Law
The Handoff Problem: Why Legal Work Gets Worse Every Time a Case Changes Hands
Every case handoff loses context. Here’s why legal work breaks across transitions and how a legal AI platform fixes it.
Sabih Siddiqi
4 min read
AI Research
AI Isn't a Software Business Anymore
AI Market Report March 2026: Google’s price war, America’s shadow-banking energy play, and why the whole AI stack just fractured into four industries — each with different economics.
Devansh
17 min read
AI & Law
The Family Law Document Problem: Why Legal AI Must Structure the Record
Most law firm AI tools fail before the work begins. Here’s how legal AI actually handles real case records.
Sabih Siddiqi
4 min read
AI Research
Come Meet me in SF and Vegas
Saleforce TDX, Google Cloud Next and more..
Devansh
3 min read
Product Update
Irys Inside Microsoft Word.
Lawyers work in Word. Starting today, the full Irys sidebar lives directly inside Microsoft Word.
Irys Team
3 min read
AI Research
How to use AI for Cutting Edge Research
Featuring insights from Andrew Ng, Terence Tao, Yann LeCunn, and many other top researchers on how they use AI for better gains
Devansh
3 min read
AI & Law
Courts Aren’t Regulating AI. They’re Defining Its Conditions.
Legal AI just changed: courts now care how your AI handles data—not what it produces.
Sabih Siddiqi
8 min read
AI & Law
When a Focused Tool Becomes a Ceiling: Spellbook vs. Irys One
Document-level legal AI helps with drafting — but breaks at deal complexity. Why AI for lawyers must move beyond single-document workflows.
Sabih Siddiqi
12 min read
AI & Law
Legal AI Needs Matter Context, Not Just Chat Sessions
Most legal AI tools rely on chat. But legal reasoning depends on continuity — and continuity depends on matter context. Here’s why chat-based tools fail without it.
Sabih Siddiqi
5 min read
AI Research
Why Ben Horowitz and I Are Investing in Humanity’s Greatest Untapped Asset
From Societal Bottleneck to High-Yield Infrastructure
Devansh
10 min read
AI Research
Why Some Startups Are Easy to Copy While Others Aren’t
What Apple, GitHub Copilot, and legal AI reveal about how incumbents lose paradigm shifts
Devansh
35 min read
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AI Research
How a Leading Venture Capitalist uses AI Agents [Guest]
A skeptic’s field guide to building personal agents that are powerful, practical, and safe
Devansh
19 min read
AI Research
The Future of On-Device AI
How Liquid AI built the Best Edge AI Model in the World. And what this reveals about the next wave of model design.
Devansh
53 min read
AI Research
How to Prompt Reasoning Models Effectively
Understanding why Reasoning Models are Different from Normal LLMs and How to Prompt them.
Devansh
3 min read
AI Research
How to Diagnose Failures in Large AI Training Clusters
A practical look at how debugging workflows, metrics, and automated runbooks are used to investigate slowdowns and failures in large-scale model training.
Devansh
19 min read
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AI Research
Earth Scientist Tells You How Your Land Is Lying to You [Livestreams]
How AI turns weeks of GIS work into 10 seconds of queries
Devansh
7 min read
AI Research
How Long Context Inference Is Rewriting the Future of Transformers
A clear guide to the new architectures battling the transformer’s memory and inference bottlenecks.
Devansh
77 min read
AI Research
AI Market Report: Feb 2026. Ten Frontier Models in 28 Days
How labs differentiate when models converge, what AI coding tools actually change, and why the backlash against AI became a market force
Devansh
3 min read
AI Research
Why We Must All Support Anthropic AIs Stand Against AI-Surveillance and Weapons Systems
How Mass AI Surveillance and AI Weapons Systems Can Threaten Our Freedom
Devansh
42 min read
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AI Research
Most Important AI Updates of the week. Feb 16th 2026-Feb 22 2026 [Livestreams]
why AI benchmarks are failing and more
Devansh
18 min read
AI Research
The Real Cost of Running AI
From FLOPs to GPUs to KV Cache — What Every Token Actually Costs
Devansh
52 min read
AI Research
How I taught myself to get cutting edge in AI
How to teach yourself AI- for technical folk
Devansh
3 min read
AI Research
How Fractals Can Improve How AI Models Internally Represent Information
A deep dive into hierarchy and why present AI systems are missing it.
Devansh
30 min read
![Why Silicon Valley Got Industrials Wrong [Livestreams]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_!J8-w!%2Cw_1456%2Cc_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252Fb51977d4-15a3-46b6-bbda-05c1a2d3b24b_1608x1848.png&w=3840&q=75)
AI Research
Why Silicon Valley Got Industrials Wrong [Livestreams]
Meet Philipp Wehn, the a16z Founder using AI to improve Heavy Industries.
Devansh
12 min read
![Inside Zhipu: How One of China’s AI Tigers Thinks About Building Models [Livestreams]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_!0Df5!%2Cw_1456%2Cc_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252F27a82974-9043-49e2-956b-2cb71e0bf711_2614x2614.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
AI Research
Inside Zhipu: How One of China’s AI Tigers Thinks About Building Models [Livestreams]
A candid conversation on tradeoffs, scale, and what actually matters.
Devansh
12 min read
AI Research
AI Isn’t Accelerating. It’s Settling.
How verification costs, retention curves, and stateful systems are reshaping where value accumulates
Devansh
3 min read
AI Research
Why Open Source AI is Suddenly Raising Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
Databricks, Sakana AI, Radix, and why Investors are rushing to invest in Open Source AI
Devansh
18 min read
AI Research
Why Meta Keeps Outperforming the Financial Analysts
A deepdive into the Metaverse, Open Source, and how Meta is tackling their biggest challenges.
Devansh
12 min read
![Meet Wafer: The YC Startup Making GPUs 5x More Efficient with AI [Livestreams]](/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fblog-13.png&w=3840&q=75&dpl=dpl_HVEGDNLmG8yKsjb4vx29PDZKQipS)
AI Research
Meet Wafer: The YC Startup Making GPUs 5x More Efficient with AI [Livestreams]
What are Kernels and Why writing them better can improve GPU usage by 5x.
Devansh
9 min read
Product Updates
Irys Prime Launches, Introducing True Legal Intelligence
Today we are announcing the general availability of Irys Prime — the first version of our platform that delivers what we believe is the correct standard for legal AI: matter-aware, jurisdiction-grounded, and auditable at every step.
Sabih Siddiqi
5 min read
AI & Law
Authority Is Not Strategy: How Irys Separates Legal Retrieval from Legal Reasoning
Most legal AI tools conflate finding relevant cases with knowing what to do with them. Irys draws a deliberate architectural boundary between the two — and it changes everything about how lawyers can trust AI in practice.
Sabih Siddiqi
7 min read
Industry Insights
The Myth of Legal AI: Why No One is Doing It Right (...Except Us)
The legal AI market is full of tools that do impressive things in controlled settings and disappointing things in actual practice. Here is why the gap exists, what causes it, and what doing it right actually requires.
Sabih Siddiqi
6 min read
AI & Law
Beyond Prompts: Why Legal AI Must Be Built Around Matters, Not Conversations
Chat interfaces gave us a taste of what AI could do for legal work. But a conversation is not a matter. The next generation of legal AI has to be organized around how lawyers actually work — and that means building around the matter, not the message.
Sabih Siddiqi
6 min read
AI & Law
Ethical Implications of AI in Law: Ensuring Transparency and Accountability
The deployment of AI in legal practice raises profound questions about professional responsibility, client confidentiality, and the nature of legal judgment itself. How Irys approaches these questions — and why getting them right is non-negotiable.
Sabih Siddiqi
7 min read
Industry Insights
Wrappers Aren't Enough. But Neither Is Raw Frontier AI. Law Needs Infrastructure.
The legal AI market has bifurcated into thin wrappers on general models and raw API access for sophisticated teams. Neither is sufficient. Law needs a purpose-built infrastructure layer — and the firms that understand this earliest will have a durable advantage.
Sabih Siddiqi
8 min read