andrew arruda 🏄‍♂️ TR v ROSS needs to end the legal purgatory before it becomes a regulator’s playground.

great article by ChatGPT Is Eating the World just dropped on exactly this: chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/06/27/thr…

.Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters Westlaw's own Pablo Arredondo is absolutely correct: "Pre-training with transformers is fair use because it is transformative."

Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters Westlaw Thomson Reuters openly backs this view. TR utilizes both OpenAI and Anthropic in its stack and touts the revenue those models help generate in their CoCounsel product during investor calls.

“anti-competitive ‘assets’ like WL cites are real hurdles that deserve only disdain… an evaporating moat given where NLP is going… I can see why Wexis marketing wants everyone to believe otherwise.” - Pablo Arredondo of Thomson Reuters @westlaw

"Westlaw is a monopolist, and they make it hard for anyone to get access to basic legal documents and their citations to keep their monopoly" - Jacob Heller, Thomson Reuters @westlaw

"If everyone has access to key legal documents, they can build innovative new products with them, especially those that are based on artificial intelligence and machine learning — which require access to a lot of data to work at all" - Jacob Heller, Thomson Reuters @westlaw

"Appellate courts or Congress may provide further clarification and direction." 🔗crowell.com/en/insights/cl…

A former Democrat US senator and a former Republican US senator weigh in on the importance of courts finding that training AI is fair use:

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