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2026
Week 21Big Law’s hallucination panic — and the Head-of-AI offer in the roomApr 25Week 20Opus 4.7 ships, Claude for Word lands — Legora answers with Jude LawApr 18Week 19Claude for Word + Managed Agents reshape the legal-SaaS layerApr 11Week 18The founder goes full-time, Crosby’s $60M raise, Claude Code’s source leakApr 4Week 17Oscar LQ outshipped the incumbents — and an 8-year-old found Claude CodeMar 28Week 16The billable hour’s obituary, and the intrapreneur’s dilemma takes shapeMar 21Week 15LQ Games kicks off, LawyerOS surfaces, Legora’s $5.55B pressure-testedMar 14Week 1410x lawyer debate, a $150K retainer, “if Harvey was 2025, LQ are 2026”Mar 7Week 13Thin-wrapper bubble theory, AI malpractice, and the LQ Games announcedFeb 28Week 12AI-native firms vs rebranded tooling — and cognitive debtFeb 21Week 11Opus 4.6 lands, GSD plugin reshapes workflows, the “lost generation”Feb 14Week 10Anthropic and Google AI Studio in the room — and a redlining CLI shipsFeb 8Week 9LegalQuants launches, LQ001 named, Anthropic drops a Claude legal pluginFeb 1Week 8Defining “legal quant” — citation auditing, and the move to WhatsApp CommunityJan 25Week 7Vibe coders → Legal Quants — and the Manus-sponsored hackathonJan 18Week 6Does Harvey justify the price? A Word plugin ships, the first call landsJan 11Week 5Local LLMs on AMD, the “how to teach vibe coding” debate, first call plannedJan 42025
Week 4FastAPI + Docling consensus emerges, prompt eval frameworks get seriousDec 28Week 3Cloud vs local for law firms, tracked-changes parsing, “Cursor for Word”Dec 21Week 2Security vs practicality, the Harvey value debate, what “agent” actually meansDec 14Week 1Local vs cloud LLMs, hallucination patterns, and OCR pipelinesDec 7Week 0The launch weekend — Harvey, GPT, and Legora compared by practitionersNov 30