What Do You Need to Know?
- Which Laws Apply When a Business Uses AI?
- Does TRAIGA Apply to a Texas Business?
- Can AI Chats Be Used Against a Business in Litigation?
- Is Trade Secret Protection Lost by Putting Information Into a Chatbot?
- What Should a Business Check in an AI Vendor Contract?
- Can Employees Put Company Information Into an AI Tool?
- What Changes When AI Receives Personal or Biometric Data?
- Who Owns Material Created With AI Assistance?
- Can AI Help Make Hiring or Employment Decisions?
- What Must a Lawyer Check Before Using AI Work in a Filing?
- How Does Texas Criminal Law Treat Deepfakes and Synthetic Media?
- What AI Rules Apply to Texas Court Filings?
- What Must Health Care AI Vendors Get Right in Texas?
- Can AI-Assisted Inventions Be Patented, and Do Prompts Stay Secret?
Topics
Texas AI Statutes
The statutes Texas has written specifically about artificial intelligence, what they require and who enforces them.
Records, Evidence, and Privilege
Prompts, outputs and transcripts are records. Courts are deciding when they must be kept, produced or protected.
Trade Secrets and AI Work
How AI use can weaken, create or move trade secrets, and who owns what an AI tool helps produce.
Governance and Vendors
An AI tool can reach customer records, confidential processes and decisions before anyone has approved that access.
Privacy and Biometrics
What Texas privacy and biometric law requires when an AI system collects, infers or trains on information about people.
Employment, Liability, and Consumers
What happens when AI influences decisions about people, speaks to customers or gets something wrong.
Federal and Multistate Rules
Federal statutes that already govern AI use in Texas, the federal preemption effort, and the out-of-state laws that reach Texas companies.
Guides
How Existing Law Applies to AI in Texas
Which Texas and federal laws reach an AI use before any AI statute does, and how to tell them apart.
TRAIGA Explained
Who the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act covers, what it prohibits, and how the Attorney General enforces it.
AI Conversations Are Records
Prompts and outputs are stored, can be preserved under a litigation hold and can be ordered produced, as email once was.
AI and Trade Secret Protection
How AI changes the two elements that decide whether information is a trade secret: secrecy measures and ascertainability.
Insights
The TRAIGA Complaint Portal Is Open
The Attorney General’s online complaint mechanism, required by HB 149, is the first step in TRAIGA enforcement.
Portal verified available:
Heppner and Privilege for Consumer AI Research
The Southern District of New York held that a defendant’s own research with a consumer AI tool was neither privileged nor work product.
The FTC’s Proposed Policy Statement on AI Accuracy
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a statement on how Section 5 applies to suppressing accuracy in AI systems, with implications for state laws.
Texas AI Law Tracker
Source-linked statute and enforcement records, each with its own law-checked-through date.
Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act
Includes targeted prohibitions, disclosure, Attorney General (AG) enforcement, cure, penalties and a regulatory sandbox.
App Store Accountability Act
December 2025 injunction; June 4, 2026 Fifth Circuit stay; July 6, 2026 Supreme Court refusal to vacate stay; August 4, 2026 Fifth Circuit oral argument. The cited orders permitted enforcement without deciding the merits. A complete current docket check was not available.
FTC AI Accuracy Statement
Agency comment record identifies a proposal. It is not itself a federal preemption holding.