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The new M&A practice targets smaller transactions with lawyer-led AI workflows and tailored fixed fees. Its current website advertises a wider deal range than initial launch coverage, while claimed cost savings still await comparative evidence.
Dentons’ interviews with in-house lawyers describe AI increasing incoming work as well as internal capacity. The findings point to a growing triage burden, but provide qualitative evidence rather than a representative measure of legal-sector productivity.
New finance software and beta voice agents extend Filevine beyond casework into accounting and intake. The releases put permissions, record matching and human review at the centre of a broader legal-operations proposition.
OpenAI’s published guidance allows model improvement from personal-account Daybreak sessions despite the general training switch. Reports of a subsequent promised opt-out make the precise scope and delivery of a separate control the immediate questions.
Google, OpenAI and Microsoft are backing a common training-preference signal for websites. The proposal could simplify publishers’ controls, but implementation dates, grounding rules and the limits of voluntary compliance still require close attention.
Britain’s competition regulator has opened a formal investigation into Meta’s proposed content permissions. The pause buys publishers time, while the case tests whether access to an audience can justify wider rights over their work.
The legal AI company is bringing in a sales-platform team to build firm-specific context. The purchase puts permissions, provenance and the organisation of private legal knowledge alongside model performance.
Anthropic says Claude produces a compact safety assessment after responses across a large share of traffic. Its results show a cheaper screening tool, with limitations for detection and privacy.
Reuters reports US officials are asking how the proposed $12.93bn acquisition might affect AI competition. The question is whether an open distribution platform can remain neutral under a dominant chip supplier.
A signed state law restricts defined companion features for minors and takes effect in January. Providers must reconcile age checks, data handling and a detailed list of prohibited behaviour.