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Legaltech AI startup Legora raises $150M at $1.8B valuation
Stockholm-based Legora AB, a provider of collaborative artificial intelligence for lawyers, today announced that it has raised $150 million at a valuation of $1.8 billion. Bessemer Venture Partners led the Series C round, with significant additional investment from existing investors ICONIQ, General Catalyst, Redpoint Ventures, Benchmark and Y Combinator. The round comes on the heels ...
IBM releases small open-source Granite 4 models for mobile devices and browsers
IBM Corp. today announced the release of Granite 4 Nano, a family of extremely small generative artificial intelligence models designed to run at the edge, on-device or in browsers. The company said the models exhibit extremely high performance for size and represent the company’s smallest models yet. The Granite 4.0 Nano family includes four instruct ...
Columnar launches to redefine data connectivity with Arrow-powered ADBC drivers
Columnar, a startup founded by core Apache Arrow developers, launched today with $4 million to accelerate data connectivity using Arrow-based drivers. Bessemer Venture Partners led the company’s seed funding round with participation from Breakers, K5 Tokyo Black, Next Play Ventures and Composed Ventures, alongside a number of angel investors. True to its name, Columnar wants ...
Anomalo expands its platform with AIDA, an intelligent data analyst for the enterprise
Anomalo Inc., an enterprise platform that uses artificial intelligence to monitor and ensure data quality, today unveiled AIDA — short for Anomalo’s Intelligent Data Analyst, a new generative AI system that lets users query and control their data in natural language. The company uses machine learning to replace traditional rules-based systems for monitoring and correcting ...
Grammarly transforms into AI-enabled productivity suite with Superhuman rebrand
Grammarly Inc., the startup best known for artificial intelligence-powered proofreading and writing software, today announced its rebrand to Superhuman: a full-featured AI-native productivity platform. Under the new name, Superhuman is still offering Grammarly, alongside document collaboration orchestrator Coda and premium email client Superhuman Mail, connected by powerful AI assistance. The company dubs this the Superhuman ...
Inside Nvidia’s GTC DC announcements: From AI factories to quantum computers and 6G networks
Nvidia Corp. brought its full-stack artificial intelligence ambitions today to Washington, D.C., unveiling new supercomputing systems, telecom partnerships and industrial collaborations that extend its reach from the nation’s labs to its factories. At its GTC DC event, the company announced major initiatives spanning quantum computing, 6G networks and “AI factories” built with the United States ...
DroneDeploy adds agentic AI and robotics enhancements to expand mapping and inspection
Cloud-based drone mapping platform and analytics startup DroneDeploy Inc. just introduced new agentic artificial intelligence features and platform updates to advance automation and data-driven decision-making for critical industry operations. Announced today at the Horizons 2025 user conference, the company unveiled AI agents for safety hazards and inspection, accelerated development of tools for embodied ground robotics ...
IBM unveils Digital Asset Haven to help banks and governments manage crypto securely
Technology giant IBM Corp. today announced the launch of a new blockchain digital asset platform for financial institutions and regulated businesses. The new platform, called Digital Asset Haven, will provide banks, corporations and governments a secure management of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins and tokenized assets. IBM developed the platform in collaboration with Dfns ...
Vercel unveils suite of tools to support front-end agentic AI app development
Front-end development startup Vercel Inc. today announced a score of new products and services aimed at helping developers build and maintain agentic artificial intelligence applications. The new products include an intelligent monitoring system for AI agents, a Typescript workflow development kit and the addition of autonomous intelligent services in the Vercel Marketplace. Developers building agentic ...
Harness targets the last mile of DevOps with AI-driven database automation
Harness Inc., a software delivery startup that provides artificial intelligence tools for developers to update and monitor applications, said today it’s launching a new tool to automate database changes. The new release, dubbed AI-Powered Database Migration Authoring, is part of the company’s Database DevOps platform, designed to deliver full-featured, enterprise-grade database structure and continuity automation, ...