Author: Art Ryan

Legora raised $150 million in a Series C funding round to continue the global expansion of its collaborative artificial intelligence (AI) platform for lawyers. The company’s latest funding round valued it at $1.8 billion, it said in a Thursday (Oct. 30) press release. Legora will use the new capital to establish more global hubs to serve its international client base, according to the release. The company currently has offices in Stockholm, London, New York, Denver and Sydney, as well as a team of 200 legal experts and technologists, the release said. Its AI platform helps lawyers review, research, draft, advise and collaborate,…

A growing body of peer-reviewed and industry research is reframing neurodiversity as a strength in artificial intelligence (AI) development. Far from a social-impact program, autistic participation in data labeling, quality control and debugging is proving to raise the accuracy, reliability and integrity of AI systems. A study by Temple University found that neurodivergent professionals performing image and text annotation produced “diverse annotations that are valuable for employers in digital data annotation work,” enriching training sets and mitigating bias. Researchers observed that autistic annotators approached labeling with consistent logic and less susceptibility to context drift, a key factor when building models that must interpret complex real-world data. A paper in the Journal…