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    Legal AI startup Legora hits $5.6B valuation and its battle with Harvey just got hotter; also, Shapes brings humans and AI into the same group chats

    2026/05/01 | 8 mins.
    The two wildly fast-growing rivals have raised massive sums, pushed into each other's home turf and now have dueling ad campaigns.

    Plus, Shapes, an app where humans and AI characters chat together in shared group conversations, is emerging from stealth with $8 million in seed funding. Think Discord, but with AI characters alongside humans. 
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    Firestorm Labs raises $82M to take drone factories into the field; plus, BMW i Ventures has a new $300M fund

    2026/04/30 | 7 mins.
    Ships and planes carrying parts to the front lines would be vulnerable to attack. Defense startup Firestorm Labs thinks the answer is a drone factory that fits inside a shipping container.

    Also, BMW i Ventures has launched a new $300 million fund and will invest in early-stage through Series B startups in North America and Europe that are working on agentic AI and physical AI.
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    BCI startup Neurable looks to license its ‘mind-reading’ tech for consumer wearables

    2026/04/29 | 5 mins.
    The startup specializes in "non-invasive" "mind-reading" tech — a kind of neural data collection that, its CEO hopes, will have all sorts of consumer applications.
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    Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre-seed to build an AI social network in iMessage

    2026/04/27 | 6 mins.
    Series, a social networking app that's grown popular on college campuses, announced a $5.1 million pre-seed round from some big names in tech.

    Plus, Sierra, the AI customer service agent startup founded by technologist Bret Taylor, announced today that it has acquired the YC-backed French startup Fragment.
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    Beehiiv rolls out new creator tools; Also, another customer of troubled startup Delve suffered a big security incident

    2026/04/24 | 7 mins.
    Beehiiv is clearly done being just a newsletter platform based on today's launch of a new webinar feature, customizable paywalls, and more.

    Plus, TechCrunch has confirmed that Delve was the compliance company that performed the security certifications for Context AI, the AI agent training startup that last week disclosed a security incident.
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