12/12/2025: Harvey's Reddit AMA, Pentagon's own AI flags Hegseth, Trump blocks AI regulation

Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. ________________________ This week's topics: 00:00 Introductions 02:34 Harvey Cofounders Answer Tough Questions in Reddit AMA: Valuation, Competition and the Future of Legal AI (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 20:21 Amid Legal Tech’s Funding Frenzy, Don’t Sleep on the Bootstrapped Builders (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 24:30 Trump signs executive order aimed at preventing states from regulating AI (Selected by Victor Li) 38:01 Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth’s War Crimes (Selected by Joe Patrice) 42:14 2025 tech gift ideas for legal professionals (Selected by Niki Black) ‪@harvey-ai‬

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The Tech Billionaire Plan To Destroy Democracy | Gil Duran | TMR

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The Rise of the Thielverse & the Surveillance State (w/ Whitney Webb) | The Chris Hedges Report

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How to Hide in Plain Sight: Next-Level Digital Privacy | Ivan Banov at BSidesCache 2025

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Trump Sends Vance to Concede to Iran & Reflecting Pool Is Filled with Corruption | The Daily Show

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Why Are Palantir and OpenAI Scared of Alex Bores? | The Ezra Klein Show

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Cop’s Lies Sent Innocent Girls to Prison…Still Employed.

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Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan - On “Regime Change” & Inside The Trump Presidency | The Daily Show

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01/09/2026: Special 2026 Predictions Episode

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Heather Cox Richardson: What History Predicts Happens Next

02/13/2026: Legal tech rushes to integrate Claude's legal plugin, CA rules on outsourcing work to AI
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02/13/2026: Legal tech rushes to integrate Claude's legal plugin, CA rules on outsourcing work to AI

How Proctor’s texts in Karen Read lawsuit could free dangerous criminals
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How Proctor’s texts in Karen Read lawsuit could free dangerous criminals

02/06/2026: Claude's legal plugin causes legal industry meltdown, and more
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02/06/2026: Claude's legal plugin causes legal industry meltdown, and more

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Inside the Mind of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei | The Circuit | Extended Interview

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Historian Timothy Snyder on ENDING Trump Nightmare FOR GOOD | PoliticsGirl

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Can the US-Iran peace deal hold? | John Mearsheimer & Trita Parsi

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This Is Why the World is Humiliating Trump: Wolff | Inside Trump's Head