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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Meta Pays Facebook Creators in USDC for First Time

Meta has begun paying select creators in USDC stablecoin on Solana and Polygon via Stripe, marking Facebook’s first crypto payout program four years after the company shut down its Libra project under regulatory pressure. Summary Meta USDC creator payouts launched April 29 for select creators in Colombia and the Philippines, with eligible users able to…

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