
Legal AI Startup Legora Raises $550M, Hits $5.55B
Swedish legal AI platform Legora closes a $550M Series D led by Accel, tripling its valuation to $5.55B in five months on the back of rapid US expansion.
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Swedish legal AI platform Legora closes a $550M Series D led by Accel, tripling its valuation to $5.55B in five months on the back of rapid US expansion.

The Pentagon launched Agent Designer on its GenAI.mil platform, letting 3 million Defense Department employees build custom Gemini-powered AI assistants without code.

Andrej Karpathy open-sourced autoresearch, a 630-line MIT-licensed Python tool that runs up to 100 autonomous ML experiments overnight on a single GPU, no PhD required.

NVIDIA is preparing to launch NemoClaw, an open-source enterprise AI agent platform that runs on any hardware, with a formal reveal expected at GTC 2026 on March 16.

Anthropic filed two federal lawsuits after the Pentagon labeled it a national security supply chain risk for refusing to drop AI guardrails on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.

Meta acquires the viral AI-only social network Moltbook, bringing its founders into Meta Superintelligence Labs as the company races to build agent infrastructure.

Yann LeCun's AMI Labs closes a $1.03 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion valuation, betting that world models - not large language models - will define the next era of AI.

After a six-hour shopping outage and multiple AI-linked incidents, Amazon now requires junior and mid-level engineers to get senior sign-off before deploying AI-assisted code changes.

A Google DevRel engineer shipped a Rust-powered CLI that exposes all of Google Workspace to AI agents over MCP - with built-in prompt injection defense.

Investigations point to outdated AI targeting data as the likely cause of the Minab girls' school airstrike that killed up to 180 people, most of them children.

Anthropic's new Code Review dispatches parallel AI agents on every pull request to find bugs, rank them by severity, and filter false positives - at $15-25 per review.

OpenAI's CoT-Control benchmark shows frontier reasoning models score 0.1-15.4% at steering their own chain of thought - a result the company frames as good news for AI oversight.