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Today — 7 November 2026NYT - Business

Law Firms Have Malpractice Insurance. Should Their A.I. Agents?

7 November 2026 at 13:00
Crosby, an A.I. law firm, bought it for them. The move speaks to a nascent gap in coverage as major insurers grapple with risks related to artificial intelligence.

© Elias Williams for The New York Times

Ryan Daniels, the C.E.O. of Crosby, said his goal was for A.I. agents to do legal work without lawyer supervision.
Yesterday — 6 November 2026NYT - Business

A.I. Was Supposed to Come for Our Jobs. So Far, Evidence Is Mixed.

6 November 2026 at 16:02
White collar industries that are most exposed to artificial intelligence continued to add jobs in October, although that growth has been weak.

© Seth Wenig/Associated Press

Job seekers wait in line at a job fair in New York in October.
Before yesterdayNYT - Business

Parents Sue Google Over A.I. Safety Risks on School Chromebooks

5 November 2026 at 19:27
A student made plans to end her life after chatting with Google’s artificial intelligence, a new lawsuit claims, amid mounting concerns about online harms to children.

© Kelsey McClellan for The New York Times

The new lawsuit argues that Google’s “sprawling digital ecosystem” of school laptops and apps has helped the tech giant push its A.I. into classrooms.

China Blocks SoftBank’s $5.4 Billion Robotics Takeover, Impeding Foreign Deals

5 November 2026 at 11:23
Chinese authorities stopped the sale of ABB Robotics, owned by a Swiss conglomerate, to SoftBank of Japan amid wider scrutiny of global transactions that could affect Beijing’s technology ambitions.

© Moritz Hager/Reuters

China is ABB’s largest robotics market and most of its machines built for Chinese customers are manufactured locally.

OpenAI and Anthropic Set Up ‘War Rooms’ to Fight Disinfo About Midterm Elections

3 November 2026 at 18:25
OpenAI, Anthropic and other tech companies have vowed to protect Tuesday’s elections from efforts to undermine democracy.

© Heather Diehl for The New York Times

OpenAI employees work inside the company’s Election Operations Center in San Francisco.

Anthropic Reveals $17 Billion in Revenue as I.P.O. Approaches

2 November 2026 at 18:55
The A.I. company’s quarterly revenue totaled $17 billion, 12 times as high as the same quarter last year, while its net loss totaled $23 billion.

© Manuel Orbegozo for The New York Times

Anthropic’s chief executive, Dario Amodei, in San Francisco, in September.

How A.I. Is Making It Easier Than Ever to Microtarget Voters

2 November 2026 at 14:55
Hyper-personalized messages, delivered with A.I.-enabled precision, herald a new frontier for voter outreach (and potential disinformation).

© Will Warasila for The New York Times

Microtargeting technology can help campaigns build more sophisticated models about constituent preferences that can be used to test various messaging in real time.

After Tech Sell-Off, Investors Brace for More Market Volatility

2 November 2026 at 21:13
U.S. stock markets dipped on Monday after a rocky end on Friday, and investors face more uncertainty this week.

© Jeenah Moon/Reuters

Investors are bracing for further market turbulence at the start of this week.

The New Hot Job in Law Doesn’t Require a J.D.

31 October 2026 at 12:00
Big law firms, legal tech vendors, and in-house legal departments at companies like Microsoft and Nvidia are all hiring legal engineers, a new position for lawyers with A.I. skills.

© Shelby Tauber for The New York Times

Ankita Puri practiced law for more than a decade before becoming a legal engineer at the technology company Legora.
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