Jared T Nelson

Data/Compliance lawyer in Mainland China. CEO of Pathway Compliance, an ALSP based in Shanghai. Views my own and not legal advice.

[Jared T Nelson @JaredTNelson]

The Chippy Dippy Dopey Duck songs have invaded my kids playlists like the Baby Shark songs did when they were much younger. AI sign of the times.

[Jared T Nelson @JaredTNelson]

@max_grev @rasbt 👆This is the ad you should be making, not watch-on-top-of-the-wrist, awkwardly dictating sitting at a desk in front of a bunch of other iOS devices with better mics

[Jared T Nelson @JaredTNelson]

@max_grev @rasbt Also, I just tried this, and that orientation, with the strap on top and the watch on bottom, when I talk into the palm of my hand, the microphone on my watch is perfectly pointed at my mouth. It was meant to be.

*Apple Watch 7

[机器之心 JIQIZHIXIN @jiqizhixin]

Why do legal AI systems fail when cases unfold over months, not moments?

Researchers from Fudan University, Shanghai Innovation Institute, and Northwest University of Political and Law present LegalWorld – a life-cycle legal environment that models Chinese civil litigation as a causally connected chain of five stages, not isolated tasks.

Built on 75,309 real judgments with persistent memory and skills, it outperforms prior simulators by preserving cross-stage dependencies.

Tests across consultation, drafting, and courtroom advocacy reveal sharp capability gaps – no single model leads across all stages, proving that today's aggregated scores hide critical weaknesses.

LegalWorld: ALife-Cycle Interactive Environment for Legal Agents

Paper: https://t.co/D75VlkMSqb
Project: https://t.co/eKbu5hQB55

Our report: https://t.co/SdfcragDrP

📬 #PapersAccepted by Jiqizhixin

[Jared T Nelson @JaredTNelson]

@ZachAbramowitz How do they charge for the tasks done by AI (or with the assistance of AI)? What is the overall pricing model?

[Jared T Nelson @JaredTNelson]

When it looks like AI will kill your legal practice, only to find…

[JUNDE WU @JundeMorsenWu]

I’m an AI PhD at Oxford wanted to move to the US for years, but it never worked out. Maybe I can share why.

To me, it feels like the US is making it harder and harder for Chinese talent to come or stay.

First, Trump signed PP10043, which meant I couldn’t go to the US for any graduate school. That’s why I had to turn down my Stanford offer and come to Oxford.

Later, I qualified for an EB-1A (the extraordinary ability green card). But because I was born in China, I’m stuck in a country-specific backlog that could take another 4–5 years.

Meanwhile, on the other side, I’m getting 3–4 emails from China almost every week. They offer high salaries, free housing, generous research funding, and even offered an astonishing amount of money just for me to come back and have a conversation.

I’ve always loved the American spirit. I truly believe my abilities could have a bigger impact there. But honestly, the whole process has been incredibly frustrating.

All of this makes me wonder whether I should just give up.

Why am I spending so much energy trying to go to a country that doesn’t seem to want me, when another country is doing everything it can to bring me back?

[Tim Hwang @timhwang]

One of the reasons technologists tend to dislike the law is that it imposes an opaque, mandatory arcana onto their world that technology nearly always gets to impose on others

[Jared T Nelson @JaredTNelson]

@LegalDataHunter Fantastic!

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😳

[Xinyu Zhou @zxytim]

Will do

[Jared T Nelson @JaredTNelson]

@scottastevenson These days? Hopefully double checking you’re not a hallucination

[Xinyu Zhou @zxytim]

Will do

[Jared T Nelson @JaredTNelson]

The “AI-native lawyer” has started to reflect the “digital-native lawyer” discourse from years ago, where law firm leaders used to assume that young “digital-native” lawyers knew everything about computers, because of their age, but actually couldn’t operate a basic spreadsheet

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A self community note on this one: this is just a guess, I haven’t done a shot by shot comparison of these, episode by episode, but did notice some strange blurry maps in some so I’m assuming there is some censorship going on here. Just a guess here.

[Jared T Nelson @JaredTNelson]

Always interesting to see what will be censored here in China

A good shorthand is to check the runtime

Watching the new WWII doc with Tom Hanks and it’s 42 minutes every episode, then 41, then 37, and you can guess exactly when they start talking about the Pacific and China

[Poe Zhao @poezhao0605]

Apple Intelligence cleared its regulatory filing in China. The partner powering it: Alibaba.

In January I analyzed Alibaba's bet on turning Qwen from a consumer app into infrastructure that others build on. Apple just became its biggest customer.

[Jared T Nelson @JaredTNelson]

A dark secret conspiracy about the spacing debate: Did you know that Twitter doesn’t allow you to use two spaces in your bio?

Try it. Go to your bio and write a sentence with two spaces after it. It automatically changes to one space when you save.

Outrageous!

*Tested in iOS

[Tim Hamilton @TSHamiltonAstro]

Your periodic reminder that extra space between sentences has been the standard in English language typography for hundreds of years, pre-dating the typewriter. It’s there because it makes the text easier to read.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A lawyer friend on Legora:

"Legora really helped with this latest motion, which was dense with past issues in the case. Now my paralegal says she cannot live without it. It is just too remarkable and timesaving."

[Jared T Nelson @JaredTNelson]

What a world we live in

[Poe Zhao @poezhao0605]

One of China's Big Four state banks just launched a credit card where the reward is AI compute.

Agricultural Bank of China's new Kimi co-branded card offers agent access, coding tools, and 5,000 monthly queries to financial databases. Not miles. Not cashback.

China's shrinking credit card industry found its new bait.