How a 24-year-old Stanford Ph.D. dropout lured some of Meta's brightest minds to join her AI math startup

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Carina Hong, wearing a green collar shirt and smiling indoors in front of a brick wall and some plants.
Axiom Math founder Carina Hong.

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Harvey's $8 billion question: How much money does it actually save lawyers?

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A hip, young professional standing with his hands in his pockets.
Winston Weinberg

Harvey

Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun says the Big Tech giant won't be investing in his new startup

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Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, onstage at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, said there are misconceptions about DeepSeek.

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This startup is helping brands show up in chatbots and AI search. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $4 million.

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Max Sinclair, founder and CEO, Azoma
Max Sinclair is the founder and CEO of Azoma.

Azoma

A father of four raised $4.5 million to help fuel the US manufacturing 'renaissance' with AI. Read his pitch deck.

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Kenneth Cassel wearing a black T-shirt with his arms crossed, standing in front of an American flag.
RMFG founder Kenneth Cassel

RMFG

A 30-year-old lawyer quit Big Law. Days later, she had a term sheet to raise $2.5 million for an AI law firm.

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A millennial woman standing in front of a window overlooking the New York City skyline.
Logan Brown

Soxton

These drone startups are winning the war for government contracts

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A Ukrainian soldier controls a drone during a training flight on May 9, 2023, in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
Soldiers use Xbox-style controllers to fly drones.

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Satya Nadella says he spends his weekends studying startups as Microsoft's size has become a 'massive disadvantage'

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at LlamaCon 2025, an AI developer conference, in Menlo Park, California, on April 29, 2025.
Satya Nadella says he studies startups to relearn the speed and agility Microsoft lost as it grew.

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2025 sparked a legal tech funding frenzy. Here were some of the notable deals.

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Founders of Legora; Casium; Eudia
Founders of Legora; Casium; Eudia

Legora; Casium; Eudia

Legal tech has had a breakout year for VC funding, which reached $3.2 billion in 2025. As the sector attracts investment, questions remain about a bubble and real revenue gains. Meanwhile, law firms are exploring ways to utilize AI to deliver better and faster service.

Marc Benioff, Jack Altman, and Sapphire Ventures invested $9 million in this sales tech startup. Check out its pitch deck.

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Jeeva AI CEO Gaurav Bhattacharya
Jeeva AI raised $9 million to expand its agentic sales platform.

Gaurav Bhattacharya

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