Legal Updates: United States - October, 2025

Oct 2, 2025

Policy Updates: October, 2025

Oct 2, 2025

Who’s Liable for AI Harms?

Lawmakers are struggling to define liability for AI-related harms. The EU dropped its efforts to advance the AI Liability Directive. Federal efforts in the US increasingly shield tech companies from accountability, while states are pushing forward with stronger regulations.

Oct 2, 2025

What’s Really Taking White Collar Jobs?

The recent surge in unemployment among college graduates is driven by a mix of factors, not just AI. While AI is augmenting tasks rather than replacing most jobs, companies appear to be scaling back entry-level hiring and training in anticipation of future automation, making it harder for early-career workers to enter the job market.

Oct 1, 2025

A World Beyond LLMs?

A new Apple study confirms that LLMs fail at true reasoning, relying on pattern matching rather than logic. Experts warn that current evaluation methods overstate LLM capabilities, and some researchers argue that advancing AI will require moving beyond LLMs toward other approaches that better mimic human understanding.

Oct 1, 2025

AI Bubble Watch

Despite massive VC investment, many AI startups are struggling to deliver returns, with valuations skyrocketing even as most projects fail to generate meaningful revenue and the costs of model training and inference rise. Experts are cautioning that the market may be more overvalued than in the dot-com era.

Oct 1, 2025

All Eyes on Agents

AI agents are generating major interest, with both Big Tech and VC rapidly investing in the space. But many so-called "agents" are just rebranded chatbots or automation tools. Despite their promise, real-world performance remains inconsistent, and concerns over reliability, misuse, and integration challenges are leading some analysts to warn of high failure rates.

Oct 1, 2025