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Is Post-Training Enough to Make Chinese Base Models OK for Law? Thomson-1 (Qwen) and Harvey Tenet (Kimi) Are Some of the Riskiest Positioning of Chinese Models

DOJ investigations. eDiscovery in class action lawsuits involving critical intellectual property in high-tech industries. A case involving transnational money laundering or a foreign student taking photos near airports or military bases. Counterintelligence investigations. Embarrassing kompromat that is supposed to be protected by privilege or other legal doctrines. Myriad other private details and secrets that could be leaked to and compiled by Chinese intelligence.

September 9, 2026

Midwest Frontier AI Consulting

Another Failure of Imagination?: 25 Years After the 9/11 Attacks, Will We Heed the Call of the 9/11 Commission Report to Institutionalize Imagination?

Is Post-Training Enough to Make Chinese Base Models OK for Law? Thomson-1 (Qwen) and Harvey Tenet (Kimi) Are Some of the Riskiest Positioning of Chinese Models

Midwest Frontier AI Consulting Year One: Big Wins, Things I Missed, IOUs, and the Year to Come

"Exposing Creds to Swarm": How Incentives Help Interpret the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident

It’s Not Just GIGO: Don’t Dunk on the Dakotas and the Data Was Not the Problem

Ideas Notebook: FrontierListBench OSINT Enumeration Benchmark with Human Judges

Damien Charlotin (of Hallucination Database Fame) Makes Great Point About Being Lulled Into a False Sense of Security by Legal AI

Stop Saying 'AI Is Like a Junior Associate': Looking at the Sullivan & Cromwell Hallucinations.

Does AI Erode Legal Reasoning? A UMN Law Study Finds That It Did Not For Certain Tasks, With Advice on Specific Use

There Really Was a Dinosaur in Minneapolis