Federal Rule of Evidence 902(13) and 902(14) remove the need for a foundation witness. They do not remove the question of who is making the underlying assertion, or when it was made.

Both parties in Lorraine v. Markel lost their motions for the same reason: neither had authenticated their own e-mails. The court that decision leaned on identified the real question — not how a record was created, but what happened to it afterward.

A preservation letter stops destruction. It does not create independence. What the AG coalition will receive from OpenAI remains self-generated evidence — and the Belgian mechanism that could fix a fact before the fact already crosses into US courts unmodified.