Thomson Reuters CTO Joel Hron responds to AI opportunities and stock shocks

Stock market falls create great headlines, but they rarely enable the average citizen to understand the full nuance of the sector that is either climbing or falling. This was definitely the case in the early days of February 2026. AI firm Anthropic announced a legal plug-in for its Claude generative AI copilot technology, and the stocks of stalwart information and technology services companies in the legal sectors tumbled.

Among those to be impacted was Nasdaq-listed Thomson Reuters. CTO of Thomson Reuters, Joel Hron, and I had an interview in the diary for the days following the stock market tumble. The reason for our interview was a partnership that Thomson Reuters had inked in December 2025 to conduct major research into AI with London’s Imperial College. This partnership is central to the issue behind the stock market performance, and more importantly, how digital leaders and their organizations consider, adopt, and ...