A new report from legal software firm Clio finds nearly 90% of legal professionals in the UK and Ireland now use AI tools, with almost 80% of adopting firms saying they can take on more work without hiring, and over 70% citing cost savings from automating administrative tasks. The report also finds about one in five heavy AI-adopting firms struggling to hit billable-hour targets, while global legal leaders expect hourly billing's share of work to drop from 72% to 44% within two to three years. Firms including A&O Shearman and Slaughter and May are already deploying AI agents from Harvey for tasks like loan-agreement review and regulatory research.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-10
Google has begun rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, describing it as its most capable AI model yet. Access currently is limited to a small group of testers focused on cybersecurity defense, with plans to later expand availability to Google AI Ultra subscribers. Google released benchmark data showing strong performance across coding, legal reasoning, and business/economic tasks.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-30
In an Entrepreneur opinion piece, healthcare company co-founder shares a three-part framework used before major business decisions such as expansions, partnerships or pivots. The approach involves listing the best possible outcomes, assessing the worst realistic outcome and whether the business could survive it, and building flexibility into plans through pilots and gradual market entry rather than full commitments.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-23
OpenAI unveiled Astra for Law, built on its GPT-6 Astra model, giving law firms and legal tech companies a foundation to build AI products for legal work. The platform includes a specialized legal search index covering over 230 million U.S. legal documents, plus 26 plugins connecting ChatGPT to tools like Relativity and Clio, with early access for API customers Harvey and Legora.
openai.com
· 2026-09-17
Legal AI startup Harvey has closed a $550 million funding round valuing it at $15.5 billion, co-led by Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The raise comes just months after an $11 billion valuation in March and an $8 billion mark last December, bringing Harvey's total funding past $1.55 billion. The deal follows the company's launch of its own in-house model, Harvey Tenet, built on an open-weight foundation with help from Fireworks.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-09
Historical texts show medieval Europeans followed Galen's belief that food was central to medical treatment, classifying foods by their supposed qualities of hot/cold and wet/dry to determine their effect on the body. Physicians taught that eating properly balanced these qualities and prevented illness, tied to a theory of three-stage digestion occurring in the stomach, liver, and throughout the body. Diet quality also reflected social class, with the wealthy eating fine wheat bread while poorer people relied on coarser barley or rye.
lithub.com
· 2026-08-31
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