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The AI Counsel Code is here to keep you up to date on all the artificial intelligence legal issues arising in the modern business frontier. Host Maggie Welsh is a partner at Baker Botts and Co-chair of the AI Practice Group. With an engineering background and industry knowledge, she has focused her career on AI and intellectual property issues in the evolving tech sector.
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Wednesday Mar 18, 2026
Wednesday Mar 18, 2026
Dr. Sanjoy Paul joins Maggie Welsh to break down what it really takes to move AI from research to real‑world deployment. He shares how Rice Nexus evaluates new AI startups, why the biggest failures come from people—not technology—and how guardrails and security need to be part of every stage of development. Dr. Paul also explains the changing landscape of AI research funding and why Houston’s deep domain expertise positions it as a rising AI powerhouse.