{"id":143467,"date":"2026-02-06T12:22:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/06\/todays-legaltech-week-the-claude-pocalypse-ai-agents-gone-wild-and-much-more-all-live-at-3-et\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:22:42","slug":"todays-legaltech-week-the-claude-pocalypse-ai-agents-gone-wild-and-much-more-all-live-at-3-et","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/06\/todays-legaltech-week-the-claude-pocalypse-ai-agents-gone-wild-and-much-more-all-live-at-3-et\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Legaltech Week: The Claude-pocalypse, AI Agents Gone Wild, and Much More \u2013 All Live at 3 ET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrote earlier this week, it was the shot heard \u2019round the world, as AI company Anthropic, developer of Claude, launched a legal app and seemingly caused legal tech stocks to plummet. Meanwhile, AI agents now have their own social network, Moltbook, while another new site is enabling them to rent humans to do [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>As I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnext.com\/2026\/02\/anthropics-legal-plugin-for-claude-cowork-may-be-the-opening-salvo-in-a-competition-between-foundation-models-and-legal-tech-incumbents.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote earlier this week<\/a>, it was the shot heard \u2019round the world, as AI company Anthropic, developer of Claude, launched a legal app and seemingly caused legal tech stocks to plummet. Meanwhile, AI agents now have their own social network, Moltbook, while another new site is enabling them to rent humans to do work for them.<\/p>\n<p>Have we reached the singularity \u2014 or at least some out-of-control degree of tech insanity?<\/p>\n<p>Those are among our topics today as our Legaltech Week panel convenes to discuss the week\u2019s top news in legal tech and innovation.<\/p>\n<p>The show is live today at 3 p.m. Eastern time on Zoom.\u00a0It\u2019s all free, and you\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_ylahkY_aTZOr8G8HuxMcuQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">can sign up here to attend<\/a>. Register once and you are signed up for all future shows, which are live every Friday. You can also catch prior episodes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/legaltech-week\/id1505615678\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as a podcast<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@legaltechweek\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees of the live program can share their own predictions in the chat.<\/p>\n<p>Our panelist lineup changes from week to week, but our regulars are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bob Ambrogi, publisher of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnext.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LawSites<\/a>\u00a0blog and host of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnext.com\/category\/lawnext\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LawNext<\/a>\u00a0podcast (that\u2019s me).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nikiblack\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Black<\/a>, legal technology columnist and principal legal insight strategist at 8am.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rhys-dipshan-7b579025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rhys Dipshan<\/a>, editor-in-chief of legal technology at ALM.<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Embry, publisher,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techlawcrossroads.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TechLaw Crossroads<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/legalitnews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caroline Hill<\/a>, editor in chief,\u00a0<em>Legal IT Insider<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/authors\/27587\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Li<\/a>, assistant managing editor of the\u00a0<em>ABA Journal<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/joe-patrice-32398a\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Patrice<\/a>, editor,\u00a0<em>Above the Law<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/juliesobowale\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julie Sobowale<\/a>, lawyer and freelance journalist covering legal tech and legal affairs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/stephanie-wilkins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie Wilkins<\/a>, director of content, Legaltech Hub.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will also be joined by guest panelist Greg Lambert of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.geeklawblog.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3 Geeks and a Law Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you will join us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrote earlier this week, it was the shot heard \u2019round the world, as AI company Anthropic, developer of Claude, launched a legal app and seemingly caused legal tech stocks to plummet. 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