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The Anthropic legal plug-in palaver: A round-up of views
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By Reena SenGupta The news of Anthropic’s plug-in for legal work caused major upset in the legal technology world recently, with behemoths such as RELX, Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer losing millions off their share prices, and doomsday commentators widely predicting the demise of domain-specific legal AI tools. Opinions ranged from the ones who…
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Report: New tender offer to value Stripe at $140bn
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The fintech was reportedly valued at nearly $107bn just last September. Read more: Report: New tender offer to value Stripe at $140bn
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US software company Databricks raises $5bn in latest funding round
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The data analytics software company has stated that the recent funds have resulted in a valuation of roughly $134bn. Read more: US software company Databricks raises $5bn in latest funding round
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Discord users teen by default unless they verify age
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Last October, hackers stole images of 70,000 users’ government IDs from a third-party service managing Discord user data. Read more: Discord users teen by default unless they verify age
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Irish biotech Aerska raises $39m Series A to deliver RNA meds to the brain
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Having emerged from stealth in October 2025 with a seed round of $21m, Irish RNA biotech Aerska has raised a $39m series A funding round. Read more: Irish biotech Aerska raises $39m Series A to deliver RNA meds to the brain
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The Inside View: The growth, benefits and risks of vibe coding
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In this latest episode of The Inside View podcast, Legal IT Insider’s editor Caroline Hill spoke with Bird & Bird’s globally renowned head of legal technology and innovation, Hélder Santos, about the growth, benefits, and challenges of vibe coding. Vibe coding – an expression coined by AI researcher and former OpenAI/Tesla leader Andrej Karpathy…
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Worried AI means you won’t get a job when you graduate?
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Lukasz Swiatek of the University of New South Wales Sydney discusses what advancement in technologies might mean for future graduates. Read more: Worried AI means you won’t get a job when you graduate?
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ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 supposedly ‘surpasses Sora 2′
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Seedance 2.0 says it generates ‘cinematic content’ with ‘seamless video extension and natural language control’. Read more: ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 supposedly ‘surpasses Sora 2′
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Flood prediction at local level key, say StopFloods4.ie researchers
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The National Challenge-supported StopFlood4.ie is developing a smart flood forecasting system. Read more: Flood prediction at local level key, say StopFloods4.ie researchers
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€2.5bn EU NanoIC pilot line launched to usher in next-gen chips
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Tyndall National Institute is set to benefit as one of the NanoIC pilot line’s partner institutes. Read more: €2.5bn EU NanoIC pilot line launched to usher in next-gen chips