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| 01.09.2025 | Bench IQ Secures $5.3M: Revolutionizing Legal Strategy with AI Judicial Intelligence | Bench IQ, a pioneering legal tech firm, has raised $5.3 million in seed funding. This capital fuels its AI-based judicial intelligence platform. The technology helps lawyers understand how individual judges think, even analyzing previously ... |
| 27.08.2025 | Bench IQ raises $5.3M for AI-based judicial intelligence platform
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The two-year-old company’s core product is a generative artificial int... |
| 21.05.2025 | The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use | Within the next decade, generative AI could join computers and electricity as one of the most transformational technologies in history, with all of the promise and peril that implies. Governments’ responses to GenAI—including new legal prec... |
| 14.04.2025 | Jack Dorsey Says Intellectual Property Law Shouldn't Exist, and Elon Musk Agrees: 'Delete All IP Law' Dorsey stated that the legal system was currently inhibiting creativity. | Can intellectual property survive as AI advances and allegedly uses copyrighted work as training material?
Twitter (now X) co-founder Jack Dorsey recently weighed in on the debate, taking to X on Friday to call for an end to intellectual pr... |
| 02.03.2025 | The Tug-of-War Over AI: Copyright, Regulation, and the Future of Innovation | The landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) is shifting. Like tectonic plates, the forces of copyright and regulation are colliding, creating tremors that could reshape the future of technology. As AI continues to evolve, the debate over ... |
| 28.02.2025 | AI And Copyright: Expanding Copyright Hurts Everyone—Here’s What to Do Instead | You shouldn’t need a permission slip to read a webpage—whether you do it with your own eyes, or use software to help. AI is a category of general-purpose tools with myriad beneficial uses. Requiring developers to license the materials neede... |
| 28.12.2024 | The Legal Landscape in 2025: Navigating the AI Revolution | The legal profession stands on the brink of transformation. The clock is ticking towards 2025, and technology is not just knocking at the door; it’s barging in. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new architect of legal practice, reshaping ... |
| 28.12.2024 | The Tech Revolution in Law: Embracing AI for a New Era | The legal landscape is on the brink of transformation. Technology is not just knocking at the door; it’s about to walk right in. The year 2025 is poised to be a watershed moment for lawyers, with artificial intelligence (AI) leading the cha... |
| 24.12.2024 | The Future of Law: 2025’s Most Impactful Tech Trends for Lawyers | Share
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The legal profession is about to experience a huge shift. Technology is changing everything, and AI is leading the charge. As a lawyer, you have probably heard about it, maybe even experimented with it.
But in ... |
| 30.08.2024 | 26 судебных дел против OpenAI, Anthropic и Meta*: короткий обзор судебных исков против крупнейших ИИ-компаний | Любая инновационная технология наверняка столкнется с судебными разбирательствами, но период активного развития искусственного интеллекта выдался особенно суровым в плане юридических споров.
По мере того как такие компании, как OpenAI, Alph... |
| 01.02.2021 | Digital.com Ranks Best Electronic Discovery Software of 2021 | SEATTLE, WA (PRWEB) February 01, 2021
Digital.com, a leading independent review website for small business online tools, products, and services, has announced the best electronic discovery software companies of 2021. The top solutions were ... |
| 12.11.2020 | Meet 10 investors who are pouring money into legal-tech startups, from Silicon Valley VCs to Big Law firms | Andreessen Horowitz's Marc Andreessen, Ulu Venture's Miriam Rivera, and Founders Fund's Peter Thiel. Steve Jennings/Getty; Ulu Ventures; Stephanie Klein/Getty This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and... |
| 01.04.2020 | ROSS Intelligence lands $8.7M Series A to speed up legal research with AI | Armed with an understanding of machine learning, ROSS Intelligence is going after LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters for ownership of legal research. The startup, founded in 2015 by Andrew Arruda, Jimoh Ovbiagele and Pargles Dall’Oglio at the U... |
| 12.05.2019 | 6 ways to effectively market an AI startup | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
No startup is easy to grow, and with more and mor... |
| 07.01.2019 | Meet YC in Waterloo and Toronto | This winter, YC will host office hours and talks in cities across the US and Canada. Our first two stops are Waterloo and Toronto, Canada.
You’ll meet and hear from YC partners and alum.
If you are starting a startup, want to work at a st... |
| 04.03.2018 | AI is coming after highly skilled jobs, and it’s meeting resistance | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When automated technologies first emerged, there ... |
| 16.10.2017 | Ross Intelligence Raises $13M in Series A Funding | Ross Intelligence, a US and Canada-based artificial intelligence driven company operating in the legal industry, raised $8.7m in Series A funding.
The round was led by iNovia Capital with participation from Comcast Ventures Catalyst Fund, Y... |
| 13.10.2017 | ROSS Intelligence Secures $8.7 Million Series A Funding Round | - |
| 12.10.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, October 12 | DRY POWDER
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| 12.10.2017 | Comcast Ventures Catalyst Fund Joins $8.7M Series A for ROSS Intelligence | ROSS Intelligence, an artificial intelligence company in the legal industry, has raised $8.7 million in Series A funding, according to a blog post. iNovia Capital led the round with participation from other investors that included Comcast V... |
| 11.10.2017 | ROSS Intelligence lands $8.7M Series A to speed up legal research with AI | Armed with an understanding of machine learning, ROSS Intelligence is going after LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters for ownership of legal research. The startup, founded in 2015 by Andrew Arruda, Jimoh Ovbiagele and Pargles Dall’Oglio at the U... |
| 14.08.2017 | Forget Arnold and the Terminator — bots will make us superhuman | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In the first Terminator movie, Arnie’s T-800 is s... |
| 12.04.2017 | Look at all the amazing things AI can (and can’t yet) do for lawyers | Robot lawyers have been getting so much attention lately that AI-and-law thought leaders believe we have reached peak hype. Journalists have responded by toning down their headlines to better manage expectations. For example, last month the... |
| 08.03.2017 | Udacity adds robotics and digital marketing Nanodegree programs, 21 new hiring partners | Today at the inaugural Udacity Intersect conference, the online education startup announced new robotics and digital marketing variants of its popular Nanodegrees — an effort to expand its corpus of 21st century skills-based courses. In add... |
| 24.01.2017 | Why we need pioneers in cognitive computing | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Last year, the first season of HBO’s Westworld co... |
| 20.01.2017 | How To Get Into Natural Language Processing | We’re excited to introduce a new series we’re calling Paths. Each post will outline an emerging technology and give you clear steps on how to get started in that field.
This series was designed with makers and aspiring entrepreneurs in min... |
| 14.01.2017 | The Two Topics in Law and Blockchain | Josh Stark is a lawyer and head of operations and legal at Ledger Labs, a blockchain consultancy based in Toronto.
In this CoinDesk Op-Ed, Stark argues that the field of "law and blockchain" encompasses two distinct topics: the ap... |
| 28.12.2016 | A robot is coming for your job | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The gold rush for artificial intelligence (AI) is... |
| 29.10.2016 | How AI helps marketers tell better stories | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
We live in exciting times. Or, as Peter Diamandis... |
| 23.07.2016 | 10 jobs that A.I. and chatbots are poised to eventually replace | If you’re a web designer, you’ve been warned.
Now there is an A.I. that can do your job. Customers can direct exactly how their new website should look. Fancy something more colorful? You got it. Less quirky and more professional? Done. Thi... |
| 20.05.2016 | Seattle Week in Review: Don’t Sleep on These Techstars | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This week, we’re reviewing the latest batch of startups to emerge from Techstars Seattle; an ambitious renewable energy commitment from Microsoft; an artificial intelligence-p... |
| 17.05.2016 | Digital Assistants Get Women's Names—Unless They're 'Lawyers' | Last month, law firm Baker & Hostetler announced that it would employ IBM's artificially intelligent lawyer, Ross, to help ease its tedious workload. In a statement, the firm's chief technology officer said, "we believe that emergi... |
| 10.09.2015 | Vivek Wadhwa Joins Board Of French Startup Accelerator TheFamily | French startup accelerator TheFamily has a new board member, entrepreneur-turned-academic Vivek Wadhwa. He has been involved with many different research centers, including at Singularity University and Duke University. He’s also well-known... |
| 20.08.2015 | Congratulations To The YC Summer 2015 Class | This week we held Demo Day for our Summer 2015 class at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. It was the 21st Demo Day event in Y Combinator’s history, with a total of 102 pitches spread across two days. Below is a list ... |
| 28.07.2015 | Powered By IBM Watson, ROSS Intelligence (YC S15) Is Like Siri For Legal Knowledge | With each new law that passes or court ruling, the vat of legal knowledge in the world just keeps growing. Even the best legal scholar would have a hard time keeping abreast of it all — and the current search engines on products like LexisN... |
| 27.07.2015 | YC’s ROSS Intelligence Leverages IBM’s Watson To Make Sense Of Legal Knowledge | As our body of legal knowledge, court rulings and laws becomes ever more complex, simple keyword searches won’t cut it for surfacing prior precedents and policies.
That’s why the founders behind YC-backed ROSS Intelligence are using IBM’s W... |
| - | Dentons, Nextlaw Labs and Nextlaw Ventures at the forefront of lawtech developments in Legal Futures’ article | Legal Futures published an article which provides a helpful snapshot of where the legal tech market is now at the start of 2017. The overarching message is that the disruptive world of legal tech startups can not be ignored as they are beco... |
| - | A Banner Year for Our Portfolio Companies | Launched in 2015 just as the legal tech industry began its exponential growth, Nextlaw Ventures and Nextlaw Labs were founded to catalyze legal innovation via technology. The two organizations have become experts in this explosively expandi... |
| - | NLV Portfolio Companies Tackle COVID-19 Challenges | Several portfolio companies of Nextlaw Ventures, the world’s first legal-tech focused investment fund founded by Dentons in 2015, are rolling out powerful initiatives to support the global business community’s COVID-19 related challenges.
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| - | How to Get Into NLP | We don’t often think about how easy it is for humans to understand language. In everyday conversation, we convey meaning without considering how our brains translate so much unstructured data into useful information. For machines, however, ... |
| - | ROSS Intelligence Secures $8.7 Million Series A Funding Round | We are excited to announce that our first portfolio company, ROSS Intelligence, has secured an $8.7 million Series A funding round led by iNovia Capital with participation by Comcast Ventures Catalyst Fund, Y Combinator Continuity Fund, Rea... |
