Ivo Secures $16M Series A to Revolutionize AI-Powered Contract Review, Launches Ivo Search Agent
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Legal teams are under increasing pressure to accelerate contract negotiations while maintaining precision and compliance. Traditional contract automation tools often compromise accuracy for speed, forcing legal departments to manually intervene and double-check AI-generated outputs. Enter Ivo, an AI-powered contract review platform that has already transformed the workflow of over 150 corporate legal teams, including those […]
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The AI Explosion Continues in 2025: What Organizations Should Anticipate This Year
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With AI forecasted to continue its explosion in 2025, the ever-evolving technology presents both unprecedented opportunities and complex challenges for organizations worldwide. To help today’s organizations and professionals secure the most value from AI in 2025, I’ve shared my thoughts and anticipated AI trends for this year. Organizations Must Strategically Plan for the Cost of […]
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Lenovo CIO Playbook 2025: The Age of AI-nomics and Digital Transformation
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With AI’s exponential growth driven by the Law of Accelerating Returns, we are witnessing an unprecedented transformation across industries. The pace of AI innovation is exploding, making it not just an advanced tool but an economic powerhouse that is fundamentally altering how businesses operate. The Lenovo CIO Playbook 2025: It’s Time for AI-nomics provides a […]
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Mapped: How ‘natural’ world heritage sites are threatened by climate extremes
“Natural” world heritage sites, such as the Galápagos Islands, Serengeti national park and Great Barrier Reef, could be exposed to multiple climate extremes by the end of the century, researchers warn. The study, published in Communications Earth & Environment, assesses the impacts of extreme heat, rainfall and drought on 250 natural world heritage sites, under […]
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Astra Security Raises $2.7M to Revolutionize Cybersecurity with AI-Driven Pentesting
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Astra Security, a cutting-edge cybersecurity SaaS company, has announced the successful closure of a $2.7 million growth capital round led by Emergent Ventures, with participation from Neon Fund, Better Capital, Blume Ventures, and PointOne Capital. The fresh capital will accelerate Astra Security’s mission to redefine penetration testing (pentesting) through AI-powered solutions, helping businesses stay ahead […]
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Natural tree colonisation may not always produce carbon capture benefits
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Natural tree colonisation work underway in Braemar. With growing interest in increasing tree cover via forest restoration and rewilding to capture carbon, scientists at The James Hutton Institute have warned that initiatives that promote self-establishing trees might not always lead to carbon capture at the decadal timescales relevant to achieving net zero and mitigating climate […]
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The most innovative start-ups for the energy transition: German innovation platform compiles list
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The innovation platform Start Up Energy Transition (SET) has published the SET100 list for 2025, providing its estimation of the 100 most promising energy transition and climate tech start-ups worldwide. The selected companies have applied for the SET Award, an international award for energy and climate tech innovations, which is organised by the German Energy […]
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Phosphorus reduction levels exceeded in wastewater trial
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The Flocell XFM 20 modular filtration system. The success of a 12-week trial of a filtration technology at a UK wastewater treatment plant shows that the modified system, first developed for the aquatic market, can help sites meet challenging phosphorus consents, explains the group behind it. The Flocell XFM40 modular filtration system was installed at […]
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Adding spectral analysis to metal sorting system will be transformative, claims supplier
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Precision sorting, higher margins, and a sustainable contribution to the circular economy are among the headline benefits claimed for the REDWAVE XRF system for metal sorting, as Austrian technology firm BT-Systems GmbH explains In the metal recycling industry, companies are increasingly challenged to not only improve the efficiency of their processes but also to raise […]
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The Carbon Brief interview: Prof Wang Can
At COP29 in Baku, Carbon Brief spoke with Prof Wang Can, director of the department of environmental planning and management at Tsinghua University, to discuss its new study on global carbon neutrality progress. Tsinghua University is located in Beijing and publishes some of the country’s most prominent climate research, which is often used to inform […]
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Building High-Precision AI Simulation Platforms for Match Recommendation Systems
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How rigorous testing environments can boost user satisfaction and business outcomes In the contemporary AI landscape, match recommendation systems power many platforms integral to our daily lives—whether job boards, professional networking sites, dating applications, or e-commerce. These recommendation engines connect users with relevant opportunities or products, boosting engagement and overall satisfaction. However, developing and refining […]
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Hubert Palan, Founder and CEO of Productboard – Interview Series
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Hubert Palan is the Founder and CEO of Productboard, a product management platform designed to help teams bring products to market more efficiently by prioritizing user needs and aligning teams around a shared roadmap. More than 5,400 companies, including Zoom, UiPath, JCDecaux, and Microsoft, use the platform to gather customer insights and inform development decisions. What […]
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Growth Warrior Capital Invests in AI Startups MenuData & Simulacra to Transform Data into Actionable Insights
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Silicon Valley-based Growth Warrior Capital (GWC), led by seasoned operator-turned-venture capitalist Promise Phelon, has announced two major investments into emerging AI startups MenuData and Simulacra Synthetic Data Studio. These investments precede the firm’s inaugural fund close, marking a strategic push into AI-driven consumer insights and data analytics. GWC, alongside Brickyard, co-led a $2 million seed […]
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Self-healing asphalt from biomass waste could offer sustainable solution to potholes
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Self-healing asphalt roads, made from biomass waste and designed with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), could offer a promising solution to the UK’s pothole problem, which is estimated to cost £143.5 million a year. A team of scientists from Swansea University and King’s College London, in collaboration with scientists in Chile, is designing a […]
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Edinburgh conference to highlight value of biogas technology for Scotland’s Just Transition Strategy
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This article contains sponsored content. Scotland’s just transition journey has been marked by ambitious policies but uneven implementation. The closure of the oil refinery in Grangemouth has amplified perceptions that progress has stalled. Anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas/biomethane technologies now stand ready to become vital catalysts for tangible change. By creating sustainable energy from organic […]
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Can Plaintiffs Challenge President Trump’s “10-to-1” Deregulation Order? A Look Back at Lawsuits Challenging the Order’s Predecessor
Mark Skrobola (MCS@flickr), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons On Friday President Trump fulfilled a campaign promise and signed an executive order (EO) that directs agencies to identify 10 existing rules, regulations, or guidance documents to repeal for each new rule, regulation, or guidance that an agency promulgates. In addition, the EO, “Unleashing Prosperity Through […]
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AI Just Simulated 500 Million Years of Evolution – And Created a New Protein!
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Evolution has been fine-tuning life at the molecular level for billions of years. Proteins, the fundamental building blocks of life, have evolved through this process to perform various biological functions, from fighting infections to digesting food. These complex molecules comprise long chains of amino acids arranged in precise sequences that dictate their structure and function. […]
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Riffusion Review: I Made a Song in Seconds. Here’s How
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Have you ever had a song stuck in your head but no way to bring it to life? Or maybe you’ve dreamed of composing music but felt held back by time, skill, or expensive software. That’s where Riffusion comes in! It’s a revolutionary AI music generator that turns text prompts into unique, custom full-length songs […]