The Atlas web browser from OpenAI deserves attention not because of its features, but because of what it represents. Two things, in particular:  1. The Mac-First Shift One surprising trend in recent years is how many new products are debuting on Mac first. That was almost unheard of a decade ago. Through the early 2000s…

Why Caring about Every Written Word Matters, Especially in Law When it comes to digital content, we are now fully immersed in an Internet of AI-created articles, images, and videos. In fact, in just a few years, AI content has become so pervasive that we have begun labeling much of it “AI slop.” This term of…

MFA Comes to Electronic Filing The golden age of logging into websites with just a plain old username and password is slowly coming to an end. Nowadays, you often need to have your phone nearby if you want to log in, so you can add a third form of authentication to your login request, typically in…

Many lawyers spend a significant amount of their days writing: drafting motions, preparing contracts, responding to emails, summarizing case law, or creating internal memos. Templates can be helpful, but they don’t reduce the amount of writing that must be done daily when practicing law. With so much time spent putting words into documents, it should…

The old adage “the more things change, the more they stay the same” is an excellent description of our ongoing battle with the Inbox. Since the dawn of modern email tools in the 1990s, we’ve been in a seemingly never-ending struggle against unwanted messages. Spam (and spam-related) emails still manage to appear when we check…

You’ve probably noticed tools like Microsoft Copilot or Gmail’s “Help Me Write” button popping up in your inbox. They’re basically custom email template creators, but if you’re a professional they often come up short of anything truly useful. However over time we have found that properly prompting a large language model like ChatGPT (or similar…

During the “early days” of AI at the end of 2023, we believed the release of Custom GPTs represented a significant step forward for AI tools. ChatGPTs are fine-tuned AI interfaces for particular tasks or jobs.  Supercharge your AI chats by leveraging custom GPTs! Many incredible updates and new tools have been released since custom…

A powerful new AI tool, Deep Research, is now available to all free ChatGPT accounts. When you activate the Deep Research button in the chat window, it turns ChatGPT into a virtual research assistant that will create informative, detailed short papers on virtually any topic you provide. Here is what Deep Research created when we…

If you don’t have one now might be a good time grab yourself a logo. Solo practitioners and smaller law firms without a logo should know that OpenAI recently released a powerful image-creation tool worth your attention. It’s part of ChatGPT and was previously known as DALL·E— or maybe it still is called that, who…

If you haven’t been keeping up on the latest WordPad gossip, the program was recently shelved by Microsoft in favor of… well, in favor of nothing, actually. So if you have an RTF file on your hard drive, a default Windows installation can no longer access it. Of course, Microsoft is happy to provide full…