Legal AI startup Legora hits $5.6B valuation and its battle with Harvey just got hotter

Nvidia has laid a new brick in its AI empire. NVentures, its corporate VC fund, has backed Legora, reportedly its first legal AI investment. Leveraging AI to help lawyers streamline their work, the Swedish-born legal tech startup is competing with U.S. player Harvey. Alongside Atlassian and other new financial investors, NVentures joined Legora’s cap table…

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Study: AI can outperform doctors on diagnosing cases

Artificial intelligence that can “reason” is now capable of diagnosing real-life medical scenarios as well as or better than physicians, according to the results of a study published Thursday in Science. The researchers used previously unknown clinical cases to test OpenAI‘s reasoning model o1 against the company’s older model, GPT-4, as well as physicians and…

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MAGA Is Confused About ‘Animal Farm’

If you read George Orwell’s classic political satire Animal Farm in seventh grade, you probably remember the basic contours of the plot: fed up with human rule, a group of well-intentioned barnyard animals set up their own egalitarian society, with disastrous results. Published in 1945, Animal Farm has a timeless (and, certainly, contemporarily relevant) message:…

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Google’s Gemini AI assistant is hitting the road in millions of vehicles

Google announced on Thursday that it will begin rolling out Gemini to cars with Google built-in, marking a significant upgrade from the current Google Assistant. The move signals Google’s push to bring more advanced, conversational AI into the driving experience. The announcement follows closely behind news from General Motors, which revealed yesterday that Gemini is…

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