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Global legal technology consultancy and NetDocuments diamond partner Verlata Consulting has entered into partnership with data discovery and information governance provider ActiveNav to help law firms across APAC and EMEA identify, govern, and secure unstructured data. Law firms of all shapes and sizes are plagued by matter documents being stored outside of the document…
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With Apple turning 50 years old today, Northumbria University’s Nick Dalton goes through some of the tech giant’s most notable tech milestones. Read more: Apple turns 50: 8 of the company’s biggest tech milestones
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The 400 new jobs are understood to break down as 300 in Ireland and 100 in the US, bringing total headcount to more than 570. Read more: Irish drone delivery firm Manna confirms $50m raise, plans 400 new jobs
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The ‘record-breaking’ funding round gives OpenAI a post-money valuation of $852bn. Read more: OpenAI closes larger than expected funding round of $122bn
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Prof Neil Rowan sits down with Silicon Republic to chat life, work and advice for students. Read more: How this professor went from humble beginnings to a higher doctorate of science

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In the latest episode of Legal IT Insider’s Inside View podcast, we sit down with Aalia Manie, director of Webber Wentzel’s innovation arm, Fusion, to discuss Fusion’s spin-off into an independent subsidiary and its evolution into a full-service product development and advisory business. We also discuss the logistics around developments such as the Anthropic…

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In an unprecedented moment of unity, the world’s top global law firms have jointly announced they will standardise on a single, self-built legal tech platform, called Esperantogix. After years of overlapping tools for practice management, document management, case management, and email, firms confirmed in a survey that lawyers were spending 73% of their time…
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The layoffs come amid a push by the organisation to further increase AI investment and adoption. Read more: Oracle cutting thousands of jobs in round of layoffs – CNBC
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Anthropic confirmed yesterday that ‘human error’ led to the leak of much of the source code of its star product Claude Code. Read more: Anthropic accidentally leaks Claude Code source in npm slip

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Legal technology provider Draftable has announced the launch of Draftable Clean, a metadata cleaning solution developed in response to demand from law firm customers and prospects. This is Draftable’s first move outside of the document comparison space. Draftable Legal was launched by Draftable in 2023 in response to demand from the legal market for more choice of document comparison solutions. Headquartered…