Supio brings generative AI to personal injury cases
Legal work is incredibly labor- and time-intensive, requiring piecing together cases from vast amounts of evidence. That’s driving some firms to pilot AI to streamline certain steps; according to a 2023 survey by the American Bar Association, 35% of law firms now use AI tools in their practic
Planera raises $13.5M to help solve the gnarly problem of scheduling for construction contractors
Planera, a construction-tech startup that offers scheduling and planning software for commercial construction projects, has raised $13.5 million in a new funding round.
General contractors typically use legacy software such as Oracle Primavera P6 to manage commercial construction projects. These s
Markforged adds metal printing to its industrial 3D printer
Markforged on Tuesday announced that it has added metal printing capabilities to its FX10 machine. Through the new FX10 Metal Kit, the industrial additive manufacturing machine is capable of printing with metal filaments, including a new stainless steel offering.
The system launched at the end of
nOps lands $30M to optimize AWS customers’ cloud spend
Companies don’t necessarily have to produce breakthrough technology to gain market traction. Undercutting rivals on price can be enough to make a dent in a competitive sector. So can leaning on connections to land customers in need of a timely solution to a problem.
A good example of the lat
Paris court explains why it’s arrested Telegram founder Pavel Durov
When Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, was arrested on August 24, French authorities did not respond to requests for comment. The secrecy of pre-trial investigations and inquiries is an important principle in the French judicial system.
French television network TF1 reported
Google’s AI Overviews in Hindi need a quality upgrade
Given India’s language diversity, digital content companies already face a challenge in trying to show and translate content accurately. Google is facing a similar problem with AI Overviews recently rolled out in the country.
The company introduced Hindi support for AI Overviews in the count
African B2B e-commerce startups Wasoko and MaxAB complete merger: Interview with co-CEO Daniel Yu
Two of Africa’s largest B2B e-commerce platforms, Wasoko and MaxAB, have finally completed the continent's much-talked-about merger, technewss has learned. The all-stock transaction, both companies say, marks “an evolution from B2B e-commerce companies to a multi-vertical ecosystem for
Calendar tool Clockwise adds new AI-powered interface called Prism
Smart scheduling and calendar tool Clockwise is changing up its interface with an AI-powered assistant called Prism that lets you manage scheduling conflicts, create or clear events in bulk, and turn to-do lists into calendar blocks with text prompts.
Like rival startups YC-backed Vimcal and Recla
Science-heavy Swiss VC firm Redalpine raises fresh $200M fund for early-stage investments
Many VC funds, especially recent vintages, have failed to return money to their investors. Swiss VC firm Redalpine is one exception, and this largely explains why its newly announced $200 million seventh early-stage fund was oversubscribed, according to the firm.
Redalpine Capital VII, or RAC VII,
Wait, what? Pavel Durov says he has fathered more than 100 children
Pavel Durov, the founder of the messaging platform Telegram, has been in the headlines since his arrest at a private airport near Paris on Saturday, reportedly in connection with an investigation into criminal activity on the app.
While many stories since have centered on free speech (i.e, should
OpenAI, Adobe and Microsoft support California bill requiring watermarks on AI content
OpenAI, Adobe and Microsoft have thrown their support behind a California bill requiring tech companies to label AI-generated content, according to letters from the companies viewed by technewss. The bill is headed for a final vote in August.
AB 3211 requires watermarks in the metadata of AI-gene
Anthropic publishes the ‘system prompts’ that make Claude tick
Generative AI models aren’t actually humanlike. They have no intelligence or personality — they’re simply statistical systems predicting the likeliest next words in a sentence. But like interns at a tyrannical workplace, they do follow instructions without complaint — includ
Durov arrest boosts Telegram app downloads
The arrest of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov in France is starting to impact the app’s traction and ranking.
On Saturday, the founder was arrested for allegedly allowing illegal activity to thrive on the social app by failing to moderate messages adequately, particularly in areas invo
Palico is now the first FINRA-approved company to facilitate online LP-led secondaries deals
Limited partners selling their investment stakes in venture capital funds to other LPs on the secondary market is nothing new. But traditionally these transactions happen offline through an opaque network of brokers that could charge costly fees and prove prohibitive for certain LPs to participate.