🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-05-06
Exploring AI's impact on law, the eternal mystery of code, and quantumania!
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Two hot takes on funding and an entanglement too!
⚖️ + 💰 TAR and CAR aside, an AI revolution is coming to the legal field.
Techmeme: Sources: Legora, whose AI software helps lawyers draft contracts, review and analyze documents, and more, is in talks to raise $85M at a $675M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
By Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes. View the full context on Techmeme.
🤖 + 💰 Soon, the “Uhhh. What does this code do?” questions will be answered… but alas, the “But why does it exist?” will likely continue for eons.
Techmeme: Unblocked, an AI-powered tool that helps devs understand codebases by answering contextual questions, raised a $20M Series A from B Capital and Radical Ventures (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
By Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
⚛️ + 🔮 Multiverse > Multicast amrite?
Techmeme: Cisco says it's made a prototype entanglement source chip that may cut the timeline for practical quantum computing by up to a decade and opens a quantum lab (Sam Becker/Fast Company)
By Sam Becker / Fast Company. View the full context on Techmeme.
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