Dark Horse CPAs has promoted Brett Tester to principal, after having entered Dark Horse Principal Accelerator Program.

 Thomson Reuters has made Co-Counsel, a GenAI assistant, available with its Checkpoint Edge research platform.

Co-Counsel was first introduced with the company’s legal products,

Thomson’s announcement said, “This new AI-Assisted Research skill leverages large language models (LLMs) providing an intuitive interface for tax professionals to pose questions to in everyday language.”

Answers are linked to Checkpoint Edge editorial content.

Nancy Hawkins, VP of product management, research, said in the statement that “Many professionals that are required to perform tax research are not attorneys themselves, and making the research process easier and faster for them is what this product is all about.”