Lawhive raises $40M to go after ‘main street’ US lawyers

U.K.-based legal tech startup Lawhive, which allows small, “Main Street” law firms to run their affairs through an AI-based SaaS platform, is on something of a tear. In April it raised an $11.9 million seed round. It's now raised $40 million in Series A funding to expand in the U.S.

Cleerly raises $106M from Insight Partners for AI heart health early detection

Although heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, a significant portion of people who experience heart attacks are unaware that they have the underlying condition. Cleerly, a cardiovascular imaging startup, hopes to fix this. By analyzing CT scans of the heart, the company

A billionaire private astronaut and SpaceX supporter may be the next NASA head

Incoming president Donald Trump has nominated Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur and private astronaut, to lead NASA through what could be one of the most consequential periods in the agency's history.  During the four years of Trump's second term, NASA will need to navigate a num

It’s the Senate’s last chance to pass the PRESS Act

Folks in America: Your senators have just a few weeks left to pass the PRESS Act, a federal “shield” bill that the House passed with unanimous and bipartisan support earlier in January but has been waiting in the Senate for a final vote ever since.  The PRESS Act, if passed into law, would en

Nonprofit 1863 Ventures has closed, reborn into for-profit New Majority Ventures

The nonprofit organization 1863 Ventures, which focused on providing capital and mentorship to early-staged underrepresented founders, will close and become a for-profit entity called New Majority Ventures, according to its founder Melissa Bradley. The new organization will rely on a fiscal sponsor

Key leaders behind Google's viral NotebookLM are leaving to create their own startup

Three members of Google's NotebookLM team, including its team lead and designer, have announced they are leaving Google for a new stealth startup.  On LinkedIn, ex-team lead Raiza Martin said she and her two other co-founders, designer Jason Spielman and engineer Stephen Hughes, “couldn

Khloé Kardashian and Kris Jenner are raising money for a new consumer startup

Khloé Kardashian and Kris Jenner are looking to raise $10 million for a new business called Khloud, according to an SEC filing.  Per the filing, which was listed on Tuesday, the company started raising last month and has already raised $4.49 million. Trademark filings show that earlier this year

Heirloom Carbon raises $150M to remove CO2 from the air using rocks

The globe likely breezed past 1.5°C of warming above pre-industrial levels this year, crashing through the 2016 Paris Agreement's aspirational target. Further warming increases the risk of catastrophic consequences, including more frequent extreme droughts, floods, and fires; stronger hurrican

Spotify users are disappointed by an underwhelming Wrapped this year

After weeks of anticipation, some Spotify users are left underwhelmed by the streamer’s personalized year-in-review feature, Spotify Wrapped — with many even going so far as to call it “boring” or a “flop.” Chief among the complaints are that Spotify prioritized th

AWS pledges $100M in cloud credits to help education organizations build learning tools

AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing unit, today announced the Education Equity Initiative, which aims to provide “education organizations with technologies to build digital learning innovations for underrepresented communities.” AWS is committing $100 million in cloud credits to this ef

Threads users can now follow profiles from other fediverse servers

A new update from Meta’s X competitor Instagram Threads allows users to connect more with the fediverse, which is also called the open social web and includes services like Flipboard, Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, and more. On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that users can now f

AWS brings prompt routing and caching to its Bedrock LLM service

As businesses move from trying out generative AI in limited prototypes to putting them into production, they are becoming increasingly price conscious. Using large language models (LLMs) isn’t cheap, after all. One way to reduce cost is to go back to an old concept: caching. Another is to rou

Senators say US military is failing to secure its phones from foreign spies

Two U.S. senators are accusing the Department of Defense (DOD) of not doing enough to protect the communications of its military personnel, as the U.S. government contends with an ongoing Chinese hacking campaign targeting American phone and internet giants. The senators say the Department of Defen

Frère’s fashion brand is upgrading the ‘tech bro’ look

What do Tim Cook, Jay Z, and Fred Ehrsam (co-founder of Coinbase) all have in common?  That would be their interest in Frère, a bespoke ready-to-wear clothing brand that has attracted names all over the tech world. The brand, which only launched in March, is opening its first store in New Yo