If
you
want
2025
in
a
nutshell,
it
doesn’t
get
much
better
than
a
blundering
Secretary
of
Defense
bragging
that
the
Pentagon
bought
an
expensive,
bespoke
AI
bot
and
it
immediately
started
calling
out
the
Trump
administration
for
committing
war
crimes.
As
the
legal
industry
ventures
into
a
hallucinatory
AI
frontier,
it’s
worth
remembering
that
sometimes
the
bots
outperform
the
human
lawyers.
At
the
Supreme
Court,
Justice
Sotomayor
tries
to
convince
her
colleagues
not
to
blow
up
the
federal
government
over
a
theory
concocted
in
the
1970s.
Sadly,
she’s
fighting
the
wrong
fight.
And
in
a
world
of
mergers
—
especially
cross-border
mergers
—
we
have
a
reminder
that
sometimes
it
doesn’t
work
out.