Thomson Reuters kept its copyright win over ROSS Intelligence on appeal, the first US appellate ruling on fair use in AI training. ROSS had been refused a Westlaw licence as a rival, so the ruling lets owners of training data set a price or decline to sell.
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Thomson Reuters retired Hosted Exchange for Virtual Office CS on Aug. 31, 2026, so firms running Office there now need their own Microsoft 365 licenses. Whether they then move to a managed cloud host depends more on the software they run outside the CS suite than on the new email bill.
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Kentucky's court administrators have confirmed appellate data was taken from the vendor's file systems. The count of affected people, the other states, and the dates of the intrusion all remain undisclosed.
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Astra for Law is GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and analysis instructions wrapped around it. OpenAI will also sell that index through an API to Harvey and Legora, at a price it has not published.
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Product revenue grew 30% to $1.23 billion in the quarter to January 31 while remaining performance obligations grew 42%, and the 12-point gap is the closest thing budget owners have to a forward reading on committed data spend.
Publishers:snowflake.com
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The legal toolkit ships as its own entry in the ChatGPT model picker and its own API string. Firms weighing it against retrieval stacks they already built still have no price to compare.
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DeepSeek's first CFO arrives with CITIC Securities engaged and a 2027 listing as the goal. The near-term cash is a 50 billion yuan private round, and the two published accounts of June's valuation differ by nearly seven times.
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Supio told SiliconAngle its long-horizon agents own a records request end to end, alerting staff only when it stalls. The company says roughly two-thirds of the work in a case is communication with outside parties.
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American agencies say six Chinese labs bought bulk subscriptions to US models and trained on the outputs since 2024. Enterprise buyers are meanwhile paying a fifth as much for models that clear most of their engineering work.
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Court users are getting the letters and the courts are answering the phones, but the supplier that held the files set both the detection date and the disclosure date, which is where the exposure sits.
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The gate on recursive self-improvement is how long one loop takes, and experiments, training runs and new chips all take real time. That makes capability curves fast but bounded, which changes what you sequence first.
Publishers:exponentialview.co
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A survey of 1,800 professionals finds 91% saying their firm still falls short on AI. The remedy its chief operations officer names is fewer tools with owners attached, plus a date on which a failed pilot dies.
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Thomson Reuters puts development of its first proprietary model at roughly $40 million, with under $450,000 of that in the final training run, and says the total still excludes the startup it bought and the cost of keeping the model running.
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The share buying model-serving platforms went from 4.5% in January to 6.1% in July, and two named buyers have now moved production work onto Chinese open weights while incumbent revenue has not yet moved.
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Gemini Enterprise for Legal ships as skills, connectors, partner agents and a control plane. One of the systems it plugs into belongs to Thomson Reuters.
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More than $7B has gone into legal AI in two years. Harvey is reported to be chasing $15.5B while it and Legora absorb at least eight startups, none at a stated price.
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Gemini Enterprise for Legal plugs into iManage, NetDocuments, RelativityOne and two rival assistants. What Google is actually selling is the governance layer, not the drafting.
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The company says its in-house Thomson-1 matches Claude Opus 4.8 on internal evals, and that the Alibaba base is de-biased. Nobody outside can check either claim.
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The frontier price cut concedes that buyers now price intelligence per task. The discount expires in a quarter; Thomson Reuters' own domain model does not.
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The $450,000 training run everyone is quoting is about one percent of the programme behind it. The in-house model took one CoCounsel feature; the agent layer under it stays licensed.
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