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Jun 2026 · 8 min read
Auditability Is The Product In Legal AI
Why legal AI needs traceable work product, matter-level audit trails, source-backed answers, and repairable workflows instead of confident black-box output.
Jun 2026 · 10 min read
Why Prompt-As-Memory Fails In Legal AI
Why legal AI systems need matter memory, structured work state, source-backed context, and durable review trails instead of prompt summaries.
Jun 2026 · 6 min read
What AlphaEvolve Teaches Legal AI About Evaluated Work
DeepMind's AlphaEvolve shows why serious AI needs evaluation, memory, and reviewable state, and why legal AI must translate that lesson into matter-centric work product.
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AI & LawThe clause that erased a $22,000 liability
A vendor claimed his client owed $22,000 on a contract they never agreed to. Enoch Allotey used Irys to find the clause that killed the claim, and had it rescinded the same day.
AI ResearchHow to Build Judgement about a New Technology or Business
How I Breakdown New Companies/Solutions to Understand the AI Market
Product UpdatesIntroducing Workbench
Legal work never lived in one place. Now it can. Workbench, now generally available, reads your matter into an Insights Map, then researches, drafts, redlines, and pulls in the apps you already use.
AI ResearchThe Cheapest Way to Make Open Weight AI Models Better
We raised a 4B model’s accuracy from 32% to 72% without training or fine-tuning.
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AI ResearchHow Rubric-Based Rewards Could Push AI Beyond Math and Code [Guest]
Why the next frontier of reinforcement learning depends on teaching models what “good” means in subjective, open-ended tasks.
AI ResearchThe Hidden Geometry Behind AI Reasoning
The geometry behind chain-of-thought, reasoning failures, and the paths models take to an answer.
AI ResearchThe AI Industry is Going Through a Massive Correction
What Fable 5, the Space X IPO, and other major events taught us about the space-- June 2026 AI Market Report.
Product UpdatesYou didn't get into law to be the glue between your tools
You stopped practicing law and became the glue between your apps. Workbench, now in beta, is an AI teammate that uses your tools, does the work, and brings it back to your case.
AI ResearchHow to Make Legal AI Truthworthy
How you can use Irys's AI platform to get much better results in your legal work
AI ResearchHow to Fix Problems with Your AI Tools
A map to the failure points in Generative AI, and What You should Do to Fix them
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AI ResearchWill AI Destroy Your Jobs [Livestreams]
Martin Ford on Why Jobs Break From Consolidation, Not Robots
AI ResearchHow Big Banks (and their Friends) Fund the Climate Crisis
How fossil-fuel financing, lobbying, greenwashing, and weak regulation keep climate action stuck.
AI ResearchThe 4 Secrets that make GLM 5.2 Special (and what they mean for the Future of AI)
Understanding GLM 5.2 Beyond the Headlines
AI ResearchHow to use Agentic Coding Tools like Claude Code or Codes Effectively
A guide to the most powerful (and most misunderstood) AI system on the planet
Product UpdatesThe Matter Now Knows Everything
Three updates are live: Workspaces organize your practice, Tasks and Ask Irys are built into every matter, and a redesigned Library connects documents to the tools that handle them.
AI ResearchHow Elon Musk Found is about to Steal from Your 401(k)
Why SpaceX's $1.77 trillion IPO will be force-purchased by your retirement fund , and what you can still do to stop it
AI ResearchHow to Deploy AI Projects That Create Business Value
How to Tell If an AI Project Is Actually Worth Shipping
Industry InsightsWhy We Believe the Future of Legal AI Is Stateful
Most legal AI rereads your matter from scratch every time. We built Stateful Swarms to read once, remember, and query cheaply — 39x lower cost and stronger results on Harvey’s benchmark.
AI ResearchStateful Swarms make AI 100x More Intelligent per Dollar
How Irys beat Harvey AI and Anthropic on the Legal Agent Benchmark (1.7x performance with 39x lower cost)
AI ResearchToken Maxing: The AI Industry is Struggling with Measuring Value
Goodhart's Law is impacting AI across the board.
AI ResearchHow to Thrive in the Age of AI
Why You Should Read: James Wang.
AI ResearchThe Biggest Opportunity in AI Right Now
How AI is eating itself, and what an Old German Philosopher can teach us about Contrarian Bets
AI ResearchCerebras: The $56.4 Billion IPO Challenging NVIDIA’s Memory Wall
The physics behind wafer-scale AI chips, why they make LLM decode faster, and why capacity, software, and unit economics may still decide the company’s fate.
AI ResearchHow to control your AI Outputs (better than Finetuning)
We’ve been using flat-earth math to navigate warped AI models. Here is the geometric fix.
AI ResearchWhy Legal AI Hallucinations Are Three Different Problems, And Most Tools Only Catch One
It takes time to create work that’s clear, independent, and genuinely useful.
AI ResearchChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude: The Best LLM Subscription You Should Buy (2026 Edition)
In a World with Claude Code, OpenClaw, and a hundred spinoffs, which AI Subscription Is Worth Paying For in 2026 ?
Industry InsightsThe Real Decision Isn't Harvey vs. Legora vs. Claude.
Harvey starts at $300K. Legora at $30K. For roughly 95% of US law firms, neither is even reachable. The actual choice is Claude DIY vs. a legal-native platform. Here is the math.
AI ResearchHow the Next Generation of AI Models are Going to Completely Change AI Inference
Why Changing from Autoregressive Language Models to Diffusion Models will change AIs hottest problems
Product UpdatesIntroducing Agent Mode: Legal Research That Shows Its Work
Most legal AI gives answers. This AI legal research tool shows the investigation behind them.
AI ResearchGoogle's Gemma 4 will Change How AI Models are Built
Breaking down the architectural decisions Google made — and why edge and server models are built on opposite logic.
Industry InsightsWhat 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.
AI ResearchAnthropic'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
Industry InsightsWhat 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.
AI & LawThe 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.
AI ResearchAI 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.
AI & LawThe 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.
AI ResearchCome Meet me in SF and Vegas
Saleforce TDX, Google Cloud Next and more..
Product UpdatesIrys Inside Microsoft Word.
Lawyers work in Word. Starting today, the full Irys sidebar lives directly inside Microsoft Word.
AI ResearchHow 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
AI & LawCourts 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.
AI & LawWhen 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.
AI & LawLegal 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.
AI ResearchWhy Ben Horowitz and I Are Investing in Humanity’s Greatest Untapped Asset
From Societal Bottleneck to High-Yield Infrastructure
AI ResearchWhy 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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AI ResearchHow a Leading Venture Capitalist uses AI Agents [Guest]
A skeptic’s field guide to building personal agents that are powerful, practical, and safe
AI ResearchThe 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.
AI ResearchHow to Prompt Reasoning Models Effectively
Understanding why Reasoning Models are Different from Normal LLMs and How to Prompt them.
AI ResearchHow 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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AI ResearchEarth Scientist Tells You How Your Land Is Lying to You [Livestreams]
How AI turns weeks of GIS work into 10 seconds of queries
AI ResearchHow Long Context Inference Is Rewriting the Future of Transformers
A clear guide to the new architectures battling the transformer’s memory and inference bottlenecks.
AI ResearchAI 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
AI ResearchWhy 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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AI ResearchMost Important AI Updates of the week. Feb 16th 2026-Feb 22 2026 [Livestreams]
why AI benchmarks are failing and more
AI ResearchThe Real Cost of Running AI
From FLOPs to GPUs to KV Cache — What Every Token Actually Costs
AI ResearchHow I taught myself to get cutting edge in AI
How to teach yourself AI- for technical folk
AI ResearchHow 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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AI ResearchWhy Silicon Valley Got Industrials Wrong [Livestreams]
Meet Philipp Wehn, the a16z Founder using AI to improve Heavy Industries.
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AI ResearchInside Zhipu: How One of China’s AI Tigers Thinks About Building Models [Livestreams]
A candid conversation on tradeoffs, scale, and what actually matters.
AI ResearchAI Isn’t Accelerating. It’s Settling.
How verification costs, retention curves, and stateful systems are reshaping where value accumulates
AI ResearchWhy 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
AI ResearchWhy 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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AI ResearchMeet 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.
PressIrys Prime Launches, Introducing True Legal Intelligence
Irys today announced the general availability of Irys Prime, its matter-aware legal intelligence platform that delivers jurisdiction-grounded retrieval, full audit provenance, and AI-assisted drafting designed to meet professional responsibility standards.
AI & LawAuthority 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.
PressThe Myth of Legal AI: Why No One is Doing It Right (...Except Us)
In a new analysis, Irys founder Sabih Siddiqi argues that the current legal AI market is built on a fundamental architectural mistake. and explains what it would take to build the category correctly.
AI & LawBeyond 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.
PressEthical Implications of AI in Law: Ensuring Transparency and Accountability
As bar associations across the country issue updated guidance on AI use in legal practice, Irys outlines how the platform was designed from the ground up to address the competence, confidentiality, and accountability obligations that govern attorney conduct.
Industry InsightsWrappers 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.
