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Macro raises $9.3 to layer intelligence on top of digital documents

TechCrunch

Jacob Beckerman, a former investment logic engineer at Bridgewater Associates, grew frustrated using standard document apps like Acrobat and Microsoft Office to print out and mark up documents. Using AI, the editor — called Macro — pulls out key terms, sections and equations to make documents interactive and hyperlinked.

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Daily Crunch: US law enforcement agencies take down identity theft marketplace

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law enforcement agencies are popping bottles following an announcement that they were able to seize website domains said to belong to SSNDOB, a notorious marketplace known to be cashing in on Americans’ Social Security and credit card numbers. Woohoo, new colleagues!! Haje and Christine. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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ACLU files first formal complaint over wrongful facial recognition arrest

The Verge

But its use by law enforcement has grown even more controversial in recent weeks following nationwide protests against police brutality and racism. This would have generated a series of photographic matches, later provided as part of a document that said they were not “probable cause for arrest.”

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Raise, a startup building Africa’s Carta, gets backing from 500 Startups

TechCrunch

So they started Raise to help startups, investors, employees, and law firms manage deals, cap tables and corporate compliance. . On the platform, Raise customers can also automate due diligence, set valuations, track employee stock vesting and make routine documentation for licenses and government documents in Nigeria and Kenya. .

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How Use Creative Commons Licensing and Flickr To Find Powerful Visuals for Your Presentations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This screencast focuses on how nonprofits can use flickr and creative commons licensing to search for powerful visuals to use in their presentations without violating copyright laws. Certainly, if your organization owns a decent digital camera and uses it creatively to document programs, you might already have most of what you need.

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LexCheck raises $17M to automate common contracting processes

TechCrunch

” Sangha, a law lecturer at the University of Pennslyvania and a licensed attorney in the State of New York, founded LexCheck in 2015. If custom playbooks are required, LexCheck only requires between 24 and 50 sample documents to train the AI,” Sangha explained.

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Harvey, which uses AI to answer legal questions, lands cash from OpenAI

TechCrunch

Harvey was founded by Winston Weinberg, a former securities and antitrust litigator at law firm O’Melveny & Myers, and Gabriel Pereyra, previously a research scientist at DeepMind, Google Brain (another of Google’s AI groups) and Meta AI. and Mixer Labs co-founder Elad Gil among other angel backers.