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Federal evidence rule-makers take up deepfakes, the AICPA issues an AI practice aid for auditors, and new AI models switch on by default in developer tools
The federal judiciary's evidence rules committee meets on a deepfake authenticity rule and AI-generated evidence; the AICPA publishes AI guidance for financial statement auditors and pilots a CPA-led certification for AI agents; and Google's Gemini 4 Argon arrives in GitHub Copilot enabled by default, while Anthropic's Code Review leaves preview.
Industry sections: Legal Practices · Financial & CFO Firms · SaaS & Engineering Teams
Anthropic cuts small-model prices 90 percent, ChatGPT starts answering with interactive tools, and a CPA checklist for client data in AI
Anthropic ships Claude Haiku 5.5 at a tenth of its predecessor's price for most requests and adds shared API credits for Team plans; OpenAI rolls GPT-6 and a more interactive ChatGPT out to paid and free users; a federal judge orders government lawyers to explain how they described the Army's use of AI; and a practitioner checklist lays out what a CPA firm should settle before client tax data touches AI.
Industry sections: Legal Practices · Financial & CFO Firms · SaaS & Engineering Teams
AI coding agents leak 13,000 internal screenshots with no attacker involved, OpenAI shelves a model over deception, and California makes lawyer AI rules law
Glow Labs finds AI coding agents pushed more than 13,000 internal screenshots from over 300 organizations to public GitHub repositories; OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Sol after scrapping GPT-6.1 Astra over deception concerns, and Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5; California enacts SB 574 on lawyer AI use; and a new survey finds CPA firms buying AI faster than they govern it.
Industry sections: Legal Practices · Financial & CFO Firms · SaaS & Engineering Teams
Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol ship together with steep price cuts, the AICPA forms a tax AI risk council, and legal's breach-response vendors consolidate
Anthropic and OpenAI release Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol on the same day, both cheaper and stronger at agentic coding; the AICPA and former IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel launch a Council on AI Risk in Tax; Epiq acquires breach-response firm Canopy; and OpenAI's internal model claims to have solved over 100 open math problems, drawing skepticism from Fields medalists.
Industry sections: Legal Practices · Financial & CFO Firms · SaaS & Engineering Teams
A zero-click flaw hits four AI coding agents, the 10th Circuit proposes an AI filing rule, and IRS cybersecurity fails again
A zero-click vulnerability called Plugin4Shell lets whoever controls a plugin's repository swap in malicious code across Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini CLI, with two of the four still unpatched. The 10th Circuit proposes a rule requiring lawyers to certify human review of AI-assisted filings, a government watchdog finds IRS cybersecurity ineffective for the second year running, and OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek are set to brief the UN Security Council on AI risk this week.
Industry sections: Legal Practices · Financial & CFO Firms
Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown, rivals agree, and Google gives its engineers access to Claude
Anthropic's CEO calls on the industry to deliberately slow AI capability gains, and OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google DeepMind's former chief all respond within days. Google opens Claude access to its own engineers, a UK tribunal strikes a lawyer over AI-fabricated citations with no dishonesty required, and the AICPA pushes back on IRS guidance that CPAs must pass AI efficiency gains straight to clients as fee cuts.
Industry sections: Legal Practices · Financial & CFO Firms
GPT-6 Astra ships computer use, Claude Fable 5.1 lands two days earlier, and agentic AI reaches the tax return
OpenAI released the model it paused over cyber risk last month, now able to drive a computer directly; Anthropic shipped Fable 5.1 and a restricted Mythos 5.1 at identical pricing forty-eight hours before it; the accounting profession's own journal describes agents running returns and reconciliations; and Massachusetts becomes the test case for how far a state can go on AI rules.
Industry sections: Legal Practices · Financial & CFO Firms
A 100-company warning on AI cyberattacks, the EU puts ChatGPT under its toughest rules, and IRS audit revenue falls 35%
More than 100 technology and financial firms jointly warn that AI-enabled cyberattacks are close to outpacing defenses, the European Commission designates ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine with a four-month compliance clock, Google ships a forecasting model it won't let you use commercially, and a Treasury watchdog finds IRS audit revenue down 35 percent.
Industry sections: Legal Practices · Financial & CFO Firms
OpenAI pauses a model over cyber risk, Anthropic nears a blockbuster IPO, and legal AI tools flood the market ahead of ILTACON
OpenAI slows development on its next model after a cybersecurity risk threshold, Anthropic moves toward a public offering that could rival SpaceX's, a Minnesota lawyer is suspended over AI-fabricated citations, and survey data shows financial firms' AI governance is lagging their AI use.
Industry sections: Legal Practices · Financial & CFO Firms
Microsoft consolidates Copilot, ChatGPT ads expand, and AI pricing pressure reaches professional services
Microsoft folds its Copilot apps into one and retires several features, ChatGPT's ad pilot expands, Stripe makes a $7 billion bet on AI infrastructure, and both bar associations and accounting-firm surveys point to the same theme — pricing models built for the pre-AI era are starting to crack.
Industry sections: Legal Practices · Financial & CFO Firms