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AI can draft your compliance paperwork. Someone still checks it
A new benchmark ran AI agents through 50 real end-to-end tax assignments. The best model finished fewer than 11% to professional standard, and the misses looked completely plausible.
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Your website's PHP needs patching today, not next month
A critical flaw in PHP itself puts almost any WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Drupal or Laravel site at risk until the server is patched. Here is what to ask your host today.
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OpenAI's legal product tells you what not to build
OpenAI has shipped a profession-specific product for law firms, not just a model. If you were about to commission a custom AI tool for document review or intake, the maths just changed.
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