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Few professions are as exacting as the practice of law. A team reviewing a contract or building a case works inside strictly privileged information, firm-specific playbooks, and a body of law that cha
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Few professions are as exacting as the practice of law. A team reviewing a contract or building a case works inside strictly privileged information, firm-specific playbooks, and a body of law that cha
Mike Scarcella / Reuters: Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, expanding its platform with specialized AI agents and integrations with Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Harvey — Alphabet's Goog
Protecting capital in today's markets requires immense speed and precision. A financial analyst preparing a deal memo works across licensed market data, internal models, and confidential client files.
OpenAI: OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms — Our most powerful model, config
OpenAI Group PBC today launched Astra for Law, a version of its GPT-6 Astra model set up for legal research and drafting. Astra for Law is not a new model. The company has wrapped GPT-6 Astra in a leg
Hannah Lang / Reuters: Coinbase's chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, is stepping down after six years; VP of legal Molly Abraham moves into his role with the title of general counsel — Coinbase (COIN.O
George Hammond / Financial Times: Q&A with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg on launching the legal AI startup in 2022, how AI could shake up law firm business models, legal AI competition, and more — The c
This podcast episode covers three main topics: TML-Interaction (likely a new AI model or technical development), the application of Claude AI in legal settings and use cases, and Sam Altman's testimon
New Zealand-based LawVu Ltd., a legal artificial intelligence startup, today announced the launch of Lens, an AI contract analysis tool that gives in-house legal teams visibility into risks and obliga
Artificial intelligence-driven law firm Arceus Legal today disclosed that it has raised 17 million in funding to expand beyond the commercial contract work it started with. Arceus provides legal servi
Gilbert + Tobin uses ChatGPT and Codex in governed legal operations; OpenAI reports 87% active usage among enabled users.
LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a division of RELX plc, today announced the opening of its Customer Innovation Lab in New York City, which will deliver a new model for how legal artificial intelligen
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: The EU unveils an open-source age verification app that requires legal ID to shield minors from harmful content, aiming to standardize verification in the bloc — The Europ
Juro Osawa / The Information: ByteDance launches its Seedance 2.0 video model to enterprise clients in 100+ countries, excluding the US amid legal disputes, after a February launch in China — ByteDanc
Evan Ratliff / Bloomberg: The US legal system is struggling to keep up with AI, grappling with cases where chatbots provided counsel, generated evidence, or helped plan a mass shooting — The first lin
Global content powerhouse Thomson Reuters Corp. today launched Thomson, its first proprietary large language model, combining the company’s trove of legal knowledge with LLMs from outside providers to
Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Experts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agents and models, as recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents raise questions over legal liability and repercussions — Both major A
Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: The DOJ joins xAI in its legal challenge to a new Colorado law that seeks to prevent discrimination by AI tools in employment and other areas — The Trump administration i
Guinevere Grant / Bloomberg: Norm, which runs an AI law firm that provides AI-powered legal services to clients alongside human lawyers, raised 120M led by Khosla at a 1.2B valuation — Norm Ai has rai
Andrey Lemeshko / Bloomberg: Interfax: Russia restored access to Roblox after concluding the company had complied with local legal requirements; Russia had banned Roblox in December — Russia restored
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Anthropic announces 12 Claude plugins for the legal sector, including a “commercial counsel” tool for reviewing vendor agreements and a bar exam study tool — Anthropic PBC is
Tiffany Ng / Wired: How GrapheneOS lead developer Daniel Micay's legal fights with his former partner James Donaldson over CopperheadOS led to the privacy-focused tool's creation — There's a lot of lo
The Information: Source: before the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI was negotiating a legally binding deal with Anthropic for the companies to stress-test each other's models — OpenAI is rethinking a ra
Bloomberg: Some startups, like Harvey, Abridge, Ramp, and Rogo, are embracing open-weight models or training their own models to reduce expensive reliance on frontier labs — The $15.6 billion legal st
Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Sources: OpenAI asked members of Congress for guidance on whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown in AI development would be legal under antitrust law — Substantive coord
Financial Times: Sources: legal AI startup Legora is in early talks to raise funds at a 10B+ valuation, up from 5.6B four months ago; its ARR rose 50% QoQ to 150M in Q2 — Swedish company was valued at
Harvey AI Corp., a provider of artificial intelligence software for attorneys, is reportedly seeking at least 500 million in new funding. The Information today cited sources as saying that the round c
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Sources: the US Commerce Department's BIS is reviewing how Chinese AI companies access Nvidia chips overseas, including by legally renting foreign data centers — A key U
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall “feeling”, amid its legal battles with book authors — OpenAI's C
Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first model built in partnership with Cursor, designed to “handle difficult, long-running” legal, finance, and coding tasks — SpaceXAI has un
Janko Roettgers / The Verge: A look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architecture shielded it from legal liability — Cath Virgi
Dawn Lim / Bloomberg: Blackstone's QTS abandons plans to build its portion of a 2,100-acre data center campus in Virginia, following years of local opposition and legal challenges — Blackstone Inc.'s
Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: SpaceX cuts monthly Starlink prices in half in the Memphis area, as it endures blowback and legal challenges from opponents of its Colossus data centers — SpaceX is offering
Robert Wright / Financial Times: Several UK police forces have been told to stop using AI to prepare court statements, citing concerns that inaccurate outputs could contaminate legal procedures — Safe
Vercel announced updates to its legal terms and conditions in June 2026, likely covering changes to their service agreements, privacy policies, or terms of service. This update would apply to users of
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Microsoft faces backlash after a blog post implied criminal referral and legal action against security researcher Nightmare Eclipse over public bug disclosu
New York Times: A surge in AI-generated “pro se” cases, or lawsuits filed by self-represented litigants, is democratizing the US legal system but consuming more court resources — For years, courts hav
Mark Maurer / Wall Street Journal: KPMG partners with Anthropic to embed Claude into its tax and advisory platforms; KPMG's tax and legal services unit saw revenue grow ~8% YoY to $9.3B in 2025 — The
Rahul Raj / EU-Startups: Milan-based legal AI company Lexroom raised a €42.9M Series B led by Left Lane, after raising a €16M Series A in September 2025, taking total funding to €62.7M — Lexroom, a Mi
Todd Spangler / Variety: A look at Matthew McConaughey's novel legal strategy to fight unauthorized AI use of his image and likeness, by trademarking video and audio clips of himself — The actor has s
Kaye Wiggins / Financial Times: Anthropic and law firm Freshfields sign a deal to develop specialized legal AI tools for document drafting, contract review, due diligence, and more — Tech group will t
OpenAI reported significant increases in internal Codex token usage across different departments between November 2025 and the reporting period, with Research experiencing the largest growth at 56x, f
Taylor Swift has been at the center of AI imitation controversies for years, and now, she's become the latest celebrity who's escalating attempts to protect herself from AI copycats. As usual, however
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s futu
Compliance workflow automation startup Haast Pty Ltd. said today it has raised $12 million in an early-stage round of funding to help organizations accelerate the rollout of artificial intelligence-ge
The Trump administration's Department of Energy has invoked Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act — a provision granting broad emergency authority over the electricity system that had previously...
Florida has sought a temporary injunction against OpenAI, arguing that large‑language model development without third‑party approved safety guardrails poses an existential threat and preys on vulnerab
The Bot Company, a 2 billion San Francisco startup founded by Tesla and Cruise alumni, rented residential properties through Airbnb under false pretenses to conduct prototype testing on household robo
Microsoft is launching a new AI agent inside Word that's specifically designed for legal teams. Legal Agent handles document edits, negotiation history, and complex documents to help legal teams handl
Editor’s note: This article is adapted from Thomas Kurian’s keynote address at Gemini at Work 2026. It includes a number of announcements: Gemini, a single, universal agent for work that answers your
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Mired in controversy and legal woes over concerns about its chatbots' interactions with users, particularly teens, Character.AI seems to be playing it safer with a new 'Books' mode. The new format let
A nonprofit group, Legal Advocates for Safe Science & Technology (LASST), sued OpenAI in the San Francisco County Superior Court following a July 2026 incident where OpenAI’s AI agents stole credentia
The next phase of artificial intelligence in legal technology will not be defined by a better chatbot or a faster document-summarization tool. It will be defined by whether AI systems can take respons
Enterprise content management is experiencing its biggest architectural shift since the cloud migration era. For years, enterprises have stored trillions of gigabytes of critical data in Box: financia
In this post, we describe how AIDA works at a high level and how it helps address these challenges — grounding users in the right contracts, under the right legal context, and within the right access