(Subscription required) AI tools like ChatGPT are revolutionizing legal work by enhancing efficiency, streamlining workflows, and improving client communication, allowing lawyers to focus on higher-level tasks while maintaining ethical standards and accuracy in their practice.

Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday that an executive chef’s anti-SLAPP motion was properly denied as he failed to establish that a series of communications by his attorney, asserting the client’s ownership interests in a restaurant venture after the relationship between the parties soured, amounted to a protected prelitigation demand where the letters did not contain express threats of filing legal action.

Many people who work in A.I. believe that the technology is improving far faster than is widely understood. If they’re right—if we cross the milestone of “artificial general intelligence,” or A.G.I., by 2030 or sooner—then we may come to associate A.I. “bylines” with balance, comprehensiveness, and a usefully nonhuman perspective. That might not mean the end of human reporters—but it would mean the advent of artificial ones.

The White House must rescind its “viewpoint-based denial” of the AP’s access to the Oval Office, Air Force One and other events and spaces that are open to journalists covering the White House, United States District Judge Trevor McFadden ordered.