Thomson Reuters has unveiled Thomson, its first proprietary large language model, developed in-house on a strong open-source foundation with a $40 million investment. Built using decades of authoritative content from Westlaw, Practical Law, Checkpoint, and Reuters, and shaped by hundreds
Twin1 came out of stealth with a $20 million seed round co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners, and Aramco Ventures. Artificial Lawyer reports the company is developing “digital twins” for lawyers and that firms including Linklaters, Orrick, and
Harvey has introduced Harvey Tenet, its first in-house large language model, designed to handle multi-hour legal work at lower cost than the third-party models it currently relies on. Trained on a version of Chinese open-source model Kimi K3, Tenet was
Hefler brings more than 20 years of executive leadership in court reporting and litigation support to Steno’s push deeper into the AmLaw 200 and the enterprise legal market.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20, 2026—Steno, the leader in tech-enabled court
Microsoft has posted a role for a principal legal engineer, offering base pay of $147,000 to $278,900, to help shape how its lawyers use AI. The hire will build agents, sharpen prompts, and train attorneys in Microsoft’s Customer & Partner
The enhanced CaseBot, powered by Conversational Discovery, moves beyond question-and-answer, adding built-in Skill Agents that generate structured, citation-backed case intelligence deliverables in minutes.
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 18, 2026: eDiscovery AI, a HaystackID company, today announced the next generation of CaseBot, its Conversational
Harvey launched Harvey II, adding “Memory,” matter/project spaces, and agents that inherit matter context, permissions, history, and user preferences. Legal IT Insider reported that the rollout was unveiled on 18 August, and Harvey says memory can be viewed, changed, or
PYMNTS reported that legal departments are moving from experimenting with generative AI toward governing agentic systems already used for contract review, regulatory monitoring, and first-pass discovery. The article highlights growing GC responsibility for oversight, liability allocation, and AI vendor contract
“The model didn’t get better, but how we instruct the model got a lot better… The ultimate factor in this is whether we figure out in legal to set up agents to actually add verification through the different steps.”
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The EU AI Act’s transparency and general-purpose AI obligations arrived on 2 August 2026, and organisations across Europe are being reminded, sometimes uncomfortably, that policy claims and demonstrable compliance are different things. Earlier this summer, 360 Business Law, one of
