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The UK Is Experimenting with AI-Powered Legal Services

Annika Schüller
November 14, 2026

Artificial intelligence could make legal advice faster, cheaper and more accessible. But developing AI-powered legal services is not simply a question of technology. Legal professionals must also navigate strict rules on confidentiality, data protection and professional responsibility. The UK government now wants to help innovators overcome these regulatory uncertainties through a new initiative: the Legal Services Advisory AI Growth Lab.

50 AI Agents Tried to Build a Civilisation in Minecraft. They Invented Bureaucracy Instead.

Annika Schüller
November 14, 2026

Give 50 artificial intelligence agents one simple task: build a thriving civilisation in Minecraft. Three hours later, they had established a government, introduced food rationing and created elaborate administrative procedures. What they had not built was a particularly successful civilisation. An experiment by Y Combinator Labs and Olam Labs offers an entertaining, but revealing, glimpse into the challenges of getting autonomous AI systems to work together.

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New to Legal Tech?

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Three essays that lay the groundwork – the technology, the regulation and the data behind it.

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What Is Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial intelligence is everywhere. It recommends what we watch, helps doctors analyse medical images and can draft entire documents in seconds. Yet despite its growing presence in everyday life, the concept itself remains surprisingly difficult to define. What exactly makes a computer system intelligent, and how does it differ from the software we have used for decades?

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Machine Learning Explained: How Do Machines Learn from Data?

How does an email programme recognise spam it has never seen before? How does Netflix predict what you might want to watch next? Behind many of these everyday technologies lies machine learning, one of the most important branches of artificial intelligence. But what does it actually mean for a machine to learn, and how does that process work?

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What Are Large Language Models?

Ask ChatGPT to explain a legal concept, translate a document or draft an email, and it will produce an answer within seconds. The response often sounds remarkably human, sometimes even convincing enough to make us forget that we are interacting with software. Behind this technology are Large Language Models, or LLMs. But how can a computer generate such sophisticated language, and does it actually understand what it is saying?

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New to AI & Law?

Read these first.

Three essays that lay the groundwork – the technology, the regulation and the data behind it.

01

What Is Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial intelligence is everywhere. It recommends what we watch, helps doctors analyse medical images and can draft entire documents in seconds. Yet despite its growing presence in everyday life, the concept itself remains surprisingly difficult to define. What exactly makes a computer system intelligent, and how does it differ from the software we have used for decades?

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Machine Learning Explained: How Do Machines Learn from Data?

How does an email programme recognise spam it has never seen before? How does Netflix predict what you might want to watch next? Behind many of these everyday technologies lies machine learning, one of the most important branches of artificial intelligence. But what does it actually mean for a machine to learn, and how does that process work?

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What Are Large Language Models?

Ask ChatGPT to explain a legal concept, translate a document or draft an email, and it will produce an answer within seconds. The response often sounds remarkably human, sometimes even convincing enough to make us forget that we are interacting with software. Behind this technology are Large Language Models, or LLMs. But how can a computer generate such sophisticated language, and does it actually understand what it is saying?

Start here

New to Legal Tech?

Read these first.

Three essays that lay the groundwork – the technology, the regulation and the data behind it.

01

What Is Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial intelligence is everywhere. It recommends what we watch, helps doctors analyse medical images and can draft entire documents in seconds. Yet despite its growing presence in everyday life, the concept itself remains surprisingly difficult to define. What exactly makes a computer system intelligent, and how does it differ from the software we have used for decades?

02

Machine Learning Explained: How Do Machines Learn from Data?

How does an email programme recognise spam it has never seen before? How does Netflix predict what you might want to watch next? Behind many of these everyday technologies lies machine learning, one of the most important branches of artificial intelligence. But what does it actually mean for a machine to learn, and how does that process work?

03

What Are Large Language Models?

Ask ChatGPT to explain a legal concept, translate a document or draft an email, and it will produce an answer within seconds. The response often sounds remarkably human, sometimes even convincing enough to make us forget that we are interacting with software. Behind this technology are Large Language Models, or LLMs. But how can a computer generate such sophisticated language, and does it actually understand what it is saying?