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Legal AI giant Harvey acquires Hexus as competition heats up in legal tech

Hexus founder and CEO Sakshi Pratap, who previously held engineering roles at Walmart, Oracle, and Google, tells TechCrunch that her San Francisco-based team has already joined Harvey, while the startup’s India-based engineers will come onboard once Harvey establishes a Bangalore office.

AI CEOs transformed Davos into a tech conference

The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos felt different this year, and not just because Meta and Salesforce took over storefronts on the main promenade. AI dominated the conversation in a way that overshadowed traditional topics like climate change and global poverty, and the CEOs weren’t holding back. There was public criticism of trade policy, warnings about AI… Continua a leggere AI CEOs transformed Davos into a tech conference

OpenAI chief Sam Altman plans India visit as AI leaders converge in New Delhi: sources

The visit comes as New Delhi prepares to host a major AI summit expected to draw top executives from Meta, Google, and Anthropic. This will be Altman’s first visit to the country in nearly a year.

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Struggling fusion power company General Fusion to go public via $1B reverse merger

General Fusion’s merger with an acquisition company will net the company over $300 million. Just last year, the company ran into trouble raising money from other investors.

From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing

Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry’s power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math required in AI inferencing tasks.

OpenEvidence hits $12B valuation, with new round led by Thrive, DST  

The medical info database has doubled in valuation since last raise in October, despite encroachment from model makers.

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PraxisPro raises $6M seed from AlleyCorp to coach medical sales reps

PraxisPro, founded by a former pharma sales rep, offers small language model AI training specifically designed for medical product sales.