Following a significant cyberattack, $10 billion startup Mercor is grappling with multiple lawsuits and a decline in its high-profile clientele.

Anthropic has launched a beta version of an add-in that embeds its AI assistant, Claude, directly within Microsoft Word. This integration ensures that every AI-generated change is tracked natively, streamlining document revisions. Legal contract review is highlighted as a primary use case, demonstrating the tool’s potential to improve accuracy and efficiency in legal workflows. Available exclusively to Claude Team and Enterprise subscribers, this add-in marks the completion of Anthropic’s rollout across the entire Microsoft Office suite.

When the One Big Beautiful Bill arrived as a massive, unstructured 900-page document lacking standardized format and official IRS forms, Intuit's TurboTax team faced a pressing challenge: could AI shorten a traditionally months-long tax code implementation into mere hours without losing accuracy?

The solution was a groundbreaking workflow combining commercial AI, a proprietary domain-specific language, and an innovative unit test framework, designed not just for tax but for any team managing complex regulated domains.

Joy Shaw, Intuit's tax director with decades of experience, shared how AI rapidly distilled the law's noisy details into actionable insights, enabling coding to start ahead of official forms. They leveraged large language models to analyze and reconcile House and Senate bill versions, reducing weeks of work to hours.

While general AI tools handled document interpretation, Claude, a specialized AI, translated legal text into Intuit's unique coding language and highlighted only the changes needing developer focus. This selective approach accelerated development.

Two proprietary tools ensured near-perfect accuracy: one auto-generated application screens from law changes, and another provided detailed unit testing that pinpointed errors and allowed in-framework corrections.

Intuit emphasized the importance of verified, deterministic code to meet consumer product accuracy standards, supported by human experts validating AI output.

This workflow’s core elements—using commercial AI for analysis, domain-aware coding AI for implementation, custom evaluation tools, and organization-wide AI fluency—offer a blueprint applicable to sectors like healthcare, finance, legal tech, and government contracting facing similarly complex regulations and tight deadlines.

Sarah Aerni, Intuit's Consumer Group tech VP, remarked on blending AI with human expertise to deliver reliable consumer experiences.

Estonia and Belgium have emerged as the only two EU nations to reject the Jutland Declaration, announced in October 2025, which seeks to impose restrictions on children's use of social media. Estonian officials contend that age-based social media bans are impractical and easily circumvented by children. Instead, they advocate for stricter enforcement of existing GDPR laws to ensure children's online safety, emphasizing regulation over outright bans.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has obtained a temporary restraining order that stops Arizona from moving forward with its criminal case against Kalshi. This legal intervention aims to pause state-level prosecution as the federal agency addresses the matter.

Basic-Fit, Europe's largest budget fitness chain by club number, has reported a data breach affecting its members across several European countries. Approximately 200,000 members in the Netherlands are among those impacted. The compromised information includes names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and bank account details. Importantly, no passwords or identity documents were accessed during the incident. The Dutch Data Protection Authority has been informed, and Basic-Fit, which operates over 1,300 clubs in seven countries, is addressing the situation.

Anodot recently suffered a significant data breach impacting clients including Rockstar Games. This cyberattack is part of a broader effort to extract sensitive information from numerous prominent corporations, raising serious concerns about corporate data security.

Over 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, have expressed serious concerns about Meta’s new AI-powered smart glasses. They argue that facial recognition features could put vulnerable groups like abuse survivors, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ individuals at risk by enabling predatory behavior.

IBM agreed to a $17 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve claims that its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs violated federal regulations. The settlement addresses concerns raised by the DOJ regarding IBM's DEI initiatives, bringing an end to the legal dispute.

Anthropic and OpenAI are in opposition over a proposed Illinois law intended to limit the accountability of AI companies in the event of widespread fatalities or significant financial damage. The bill, supported by OpenAI, would reduce legal responsibility for AI developers in major incidents, a move that Anthropic strongly contests.