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February 6, 2026

Anthropic release puts AI legal startups on defensive

Deep-pocketed model makers are pushing further into the niches occupied by smaller startups


Freya Pratty

4 min read

Anthropic cofounders Daniela and Dario Amodei

Europe’s legal AI startups are defending their edge after Anthropic, the US model maker behind chatbot Claude, released new tools to automate legal work, sparking a sell-off at publicly-listed software companies.

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Freya Pratty

Freya Pratty is a senior reporter and investigations lead at Sifted. Follow her on X , LinkedIn and Bluesky

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