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The Innovation Attorney is a publication about the intersection of venture capital, technology, public policy and law. theinnovationattorney.substack.com
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Does Tech E&O Insurance Cover AI Chatbot Mistakes (opens the original)
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A startup can still buy technology errors and omissions insurance that pays a claim over its AI product’s bad output in 2026, but only from the specific carriers, CFC and Beazley among them, that added affirmative artificial intelligence endorsements this year rather than relying on a legacy policy that never mentions the word model. The mechanic most founders miss is that the exclusion making headlines this year does not live inside the policy that actually pays their claim. The Insurance Servi
What Happens If My AI Startup Trains Models On Candidate Interview Data (opens the original)
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Seven class action complaints filed against Mercor.io Corporation since April 2026, including Ananthula v. Mercor.io Corporation, No. 3:26-cv-03362 in the Northern District of California, allege that the ten billion dollar AI recruiting startup exposed facial biometric data, interview recordings, and Social Security numbers for more than 40,000 contractors after a March 24, 2026 supply chain breach. The complaints reach further than a standard data breach filing. They accuse Mercor of using cand
Does The Fed Rate Hike Raise Venture Debt Interest (opens the original)
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The Federal Reserve’s September 16, 2026 vote to raise the federal funds target range a quarter point to 3.75 to 4.00 percent already increased the interest bill on most outstanding venture debt in the United States, and it did so without a single lender picking up the phone. A founder who signed a venture debt term sheet eighteen months ago is used to thinking about interest rate risk the way a homeowner thinks about a thirty year mortgage: locked in at closing, revisited only if the company re
AI Startup Seed Valuation Premium vs Non AI Startups (opens the original)
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Seed stage investors in 2026 price artificial intelligence startups at a median premium of roughly 42 percent over non-AI peers, a gap of $17.9 million against $12.6 million in pre-money valuation, and that gap widens to 5.4 times by Series A. A founder without an artificial intelligence focused product who prices a seed round against the blended market headline, rather than against the sector specific comparable set, sets a Series A hurdle the company’s own growth rate cannot clear. In thirty y
Would an AI Labs Agreement To Slow Model Releases Break Antitrust Law (opens the original)
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A federal court dissolved the American Airlines and JetBlue capacity alliance in 2023, a precedent that would likely doom a formal pacing pact among Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft. Sherman Act Section 1, 15 U.S.C. Section 1, condemns concerted restraints among competitors, and a pact that slows the release of frontier models restrains output the same way the airlines’ capacity coordination restrained flights. The four companies already meet inside the Frontier Model Forum, the safety r
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