legal
The billable hour’s time is approaching midnight, according to Anthropic’s top lawyer. Loading audio narration… “I don’t think the billable hour is the solution, and we’ve known it for a long time,” Jeff Bleich, the AI company’s general counsel, said Thursday.Speaking at the American Bar Association’s White Collar Crime Institute…
Harvey’s CEO Winston Weinberg thinks the $1 trillion legal market is too big and too fragmented for any one software company to sweep it. So the $8 billion legal-tech startup is trying a different play: bankroll whatever comes next. Loading audio narration… Harvey said Wednesday that it will begin investing…
In the battle for Big Law’s business, legal artificial intelligence startup Legora is bulking up its talent roster. Legora is acquiring Canadian legal-tech startup Walter to sharpen its tools for lawyers, the companies tell Business Insider exclusively.Legora, based in Stockholm, sells software to law firms and corporate legal departments that…
Microsoft is squarely in Anthropic’s corner.In a legal filing on Tuesday, Microsoft warned that the Pentagon’s effective blacklisting of Anthropic has “negative ramifications for the entire technology sector and American business community.””This is not the time to put at risk the very AI ecosystem that the Administration has helped to…
Netflix isn’t amused by ByteDance’s new AI video tool.The streaming giant sent a cease-and-desist letter to the China-based TikTok parent on Tuesday night, calling its new generative AI model Seedance 2.0 “a high-speed piracy engine.”Seedance turned heads last week after a user created a viral video of people resembling Tom…
Harvey, the $8 billion legal software startup, is becoming a default vendor in Big Law. Now, with rival startups nipping at its heels and AI model providers moving closer to legal workflows, Harvey is bringing in a new executive to help defend its lead.The company tells Business Insider it has…
