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What changed, and when we last looked

A record is only as trustworthy as the last time someone checked it. This log lists every content run — the records re-opened against their official sources, what was added, updated or corrected, and what was deliberately held — so you can see the work behind each "last checked" date.

11
entries in the last 30 days
318
records re-opened against sources
99
distinct records touched
2026-09-04
most recent run

as of 2026-09-04changelog.jsonwhat “checked” meansCC BY 4.0

Week of 2026-08-31

  1. AnalysisPublishedrun 2026-09-04-content-update

    Four held drafts fact-checked and published; five held (scorecards await right of reply, comparison awaits Queensland text)

    Fresh-session fact-checks of the 3 Sept drafts: the summer regulation review (Connecticut § 4-9(c) paraphrase fix verified), the Q3 incident report (actor counts, tool table totals and three descriptions corrected against the tracker), the September EU AI Act update (Greece item corrected) and weekly briefing 2026-36 (Mitchell, tools and update-count fixes) now publish. Held: the worldwide court-rules comparison until Queensland's PD 5 full text is opened, and the Harvey, Lexis+ AI and Microsoft Copilot scorecards plus the scorecard methodology until vendors have had five business days to reply.

    Decision. Publish only on a clean claim table; scorecards never publish without the right-of-reply window, even when the facts check out.

    54 re-opened4 recordsby session

  2. AnalysisPublishedrun 2026-09-04-content-update

    Research report: 'AI in legal practice: what 130 country records require at September 2026' (7,900 words, 16 tables)

    The week's deep research report, built from the regulatory map (130 records, 54 provisional kept as a separate tier), the document registry and the incident tracker. Every number recomputed by a fresh-session fact-checker (47 claim rows, 8 fail groups corrected before publication; 25 of 25 cited sources re-opened). Key findings: verification duties (50 records) far outnumber filing-disclosure rules (13); the EU AI Act supplies the horizontal statute for 27 members while 21 national instruments exist; provisional records mostly record absence.

    Decision. Published after the independent recomputation matched the dataset cell by cell; the three most fragile claims (Digital Omnibus dates, CEPEJ characterisation, mid-2026 Ireland/India/CJC guidance) are flagged in the run log for the next check.

    47 re-opened1 recordby session

  3. AnalysisPublishedrun 2026-09-04-content-update

    Research report published: what 130 country records require at September 2026 (7,900 words, 16 tables)

    The week's deep research report, built from the regulatory map (130 records, 54 provisional kept as a separate tier), the document registry and the incident tracker. Every number recomputed by a fresh-session fact-checker (47 claim rows, 8 fail groups corrected before publication; 25 of 25 cited sources re-opened). Key findings: verification duties (50 records) far outnumber filing-disclosure rules (13); the EU AI Act supplies the horizontal statute for 27 members while 21 national instruments exist; provisional records mostly record absence.

    Decision. Published after the independent recomputation matched the dataset cell by cell; the three most fragile claims (Digital Omnibus dates, CEPEJ characterisation, mid-2026 Ireland/India/CJC guidance) are flagged in the run log for the next check.

    47 re-opened1 recordby session

  4. AnalysisPublishedrun 2026-09-04-content-update

    Two more news briefs published: D.C. Court of Appeals (Douglas) and Virginia Court of Appeals (LPC Commercial)

    Douglas v Deutsche Bank National Trust: the D.C. Court of Appeals struck an appellee brief containing four non-existent authorities found through a generative AI search tool; a disciplinary referral is pending. LPC Commercial Services v Ar-Razzaaq Properties: Virginia's Court of Appeals found 25 phantom quotations and ordered AI and appellate-practice CLE. Both briefs checked against the CourtListener PDFs and dockets; unsupported wording tightened before publication.

    Decision. Regulator follow-ups (D.C. ODC, Virginia State Bar) are on the watch list; the briefs say 'pending' and nothing more until a disposition is published.

    2 re-opened2 recordsby session

  5. AnalysisPublishedrun 2026-09-04-content-update

    Two news briefs and two explainers published after fresh-session fact-checks

    News: the Supreme Court of India's judgment in Gadiya v Union of India (2026 INSC 947, 2 Sept) on AI-invented authorities in a customs order, and Indonesia's Supreme Court draft judgment-writing guidance banning AI-drafted reasoning (letter 112/WKMA.Y/HK2.1/IX/2026). Briefs: 'Must lawyers verify AI output before relying on it?' and 'May judges and court staff use AI in their own work?', both built from the country map with provisional records separated. 79 claims checked; corrections included the Rs 425.28 crore figure, the 14/18 September deadline wording and full country lists.

    Decision. Indonesia's letter is described as draft guidance, not a binding rule, because the source says so; the country cell mirrors that.

    79 re-opened4 recordsby session

  6. IncidentsAddedrun 2026-09-04-content-update

    Incident sweep: 15 new court records (25 Aug–4 Sep), Ko v Li regulatory outcome recorded, 15 stale records re-opened

    New rows include the D.C. Court of Appeals striking a brief with four non-existent authorities (Douglas), Virginia's Court of Appeals finding 25 phantom quotes (LPC Commercial), a California appellate fee sanction with a State Bar referral (Varma), and warnings from Hawaii, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Texas, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire and Australia's ART. Ko v Li now carries the Law Society of Ontario suspension with a dated correction. The 15 stalest records were re-opened and confirmed.

    Decision. Every row links a judgment or order fetched this run; CanLII/AustLII bot-blocks were recorded as warnings, not bypassed. Douglas and Varma go on the regulator follow-up watch list.

    15 re-opened16 recordsby session

  7. SiteUpdatedrun 2026-09-04-seo-privacy

    Cookieless analytics, privacy notice, sitemap pruning and title clean-up

    PostHog switched to cookieless mode (nothing stored on the device, no person profiles, DNT respected). New /privacy notice. Sitemap now excludes noindex pages and carries lastmod for 541 records; meta descriptions clamped; page titles shortened to the 'Thing · SafeLegalAI' pattern.

    Decision. No cookie banner: nothing is stored on or read from the visitor's device, so PECR consent is not engaged.

    by session

  8. RegulationChecked — no changerun 2026-09-04-content-update

    Regulation sweep: 10 stale documents re-opened and archived, no revisions; tier-1 cells confirmed; KZ and RS ready for graduation

    Every in-force document older than 30 days was fetched and compared to its recorded version: all unchanged, archive.org snapshots refreshed, Kerala High Court dead homepage URL replaced. Discovery across the regulator list found no qualifying new official document for August. Tier-1 country cells (GB, US, EU, AU, CA, IE, SG, IN) re-opened and confirmed. Provisional Kazakhstan and Serbia records re-opened source by source and found consistent; Bulgaria held on an EUR-Lex fetch failure.

    Decision. Provisional records stay provisional: KZ and RS are listed as ready for the editor's own source-by-source check; only the editor sets provisional: false.

    10 re-opened10 recordsby session

  9. RegulationAddedrun 2026-09-04-country-research

    Regulatory map: 54 provisional country records added (76 → 130 countries)

    AI-researched records for Europe/CIS (14), Middle East and Africa (20) and the Americas/Asia (20). A status was set only where a fetched official or reputable source supports it; most cells are honestly 'nothing found'. Notable finds: Kazakhstan's AI law No. 230-VIII (17 Nov 2025), Bulgaria under the EU AI Act, Rwanda's judicial guidance. All 54 carry provisional: true until the editor re-opens every source.

    Decision. Provisional records are published as leads, tagged everywhere, and read 'researched' rather than 'checked' until editor sign-off (editorial-standards#provisional).

    54 re-opened54 recordsAdilet — Law of Kazakhstan On Artificial Intelligence No. 230-VIII EUR-Lex — Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 by session

  10. SiteUpdatedrun 2026-09-04-redesign

    Site redesign v6: real-world regulatory map, datasets catalogue, legal tech record, trust pages

    Full redesign (Geist type, ocean-teal brand, shield mark). The regulatory map is now a Miller-projection choropleth from Natural Earth data; the tools section became Legal Tech with vendor marks and a fact-glyph matrix; new /datasets, /report, /privacy, /disclaimer and /design/system pages; publisher-level bylines (Cognesio LLP); cookieless analytics.

    Decision. Design rules are recorded in DESIGN.md v6 and the living style guide so weekly content stays on-system.

    by session

  11. Legal techChecked — no changerun 2026-09-04-content-update

    Legal tech: weekly batch of 10 records re-opened against vendor pages; 3 facts upgraded, 5 downgraded to not disclosed

    Re-opened trust, privacy, terms and sub-processor pages for the 10 oldest records. Alexi now documents SOC 2; Amazon Q Business gained SOC and ISO 42001 evidence and data-residency options and becomes verified; Adalat AI becomes verified. Bloomberg Law AI's no-training commitment could not be found on a current page and is now 'not disclosed'; four unsupported 'private deployment: no' facts were downgraded to not disclosed. No new tools; LegalAI Space skipped by rule.

    Decision. A fact is 'yes' or 'no' only where a page fetched this run states it; where the page no longer says it, the record reverts to not disclosed rather than keeping a stale claim.

    10 re-opened10 recordsby session