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LegalOn, whose contract review tool uses AI to identify risks and suggest edits, raised a $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $200M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/softbank-backed-legalon-fuels-ai…

SoftBank-backed LegalOn lands $50M to streamline legal workflows with AI | TechCrunch
LegalOn, which provides AI-powered contract review software for legal teams, has raised $50 million in a Series C round.

Fortune laid off its European editorial team, including Executive Editor Alex Wood Morton; the layoffs took place before its 10% global workforce cut on July 21 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/fortune-…

Fortune Europe editorial team made redundant but new roles being created
The London-based editorial team focused on Europe set up by Fortune last year has been made redundant amid a strategy pivot.

Search, Summarize, Analyze: Building Search Intelligence using Elasticsearch & AWS!
https://blog.someshwaran.me/intelligence-layer-with-es-fastapi-aws/

Search, Summarize, Analyze: Building Search Intelligence using Elasticsearch & AWS!
Build an intelligent search layer with Elasticsearch and AWS Bedrock Agents. Explore vector and semantic search, RAG, and hybrid approaches to turn raw data into workflows that can search, summarize, and analyze for real insights.

"No single study on AI in the workplace is going to be definitive, but evidence is mounting that AI is affecting people’s work in the same way it’s affecting everything else: It is making it easier to output low-quality slop that other people then have to wade through."
https://www.404media.co/ai-workslop-is-killing-productivity-and-making-workers-miserable/

EarthLink: Interpreting Climate Signals with Self-Evolving AI Agents
Zijie Guo, Jiong Wang, Xiaoyu Yue, Wangxu Wei, Zhe Jiang, Wanghan Xu, Ben Fei, Wenlong Zhang, Xinyu Gu, Lijing Cheng, Jing-Jia Luo, Chao Li, Yaqiang Wang, Tao Chen, Wanli Ouyang, Fenghua Ling, Lei Bai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17311

EarthLink: Interpreting Climate Signals with Self-Evolving AI Agents
Modern Earth science is at an inflection point. The vast, fragmented, and complex nature of Earth system data, coupled with increasingly sophisticated analytical demands, creates a significant bottleneck for rapid scientific discovery. Here we introduce EarthLink, the first AI agent designed as an interactive copilot for Earth scientists. It automates the end-to-end research workflow, from planning and code generation to multi-scenario analysis. Unlike static diagnostic tools, EarthLink can lea…

IRS plans to rescind hundreds of deferred resignation offers to ‘fill critical vacancies’
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/08/irs-plans-to-rescind-some-deferred-resignation-offers-to-fill-critical-vacancies/

Data Virtualization for Machine Learning
Saiful Khan, Joyraj Chakraborty, Philip Beaucamp, Niraj Bhujel, Min Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17293 https://…

Data Virtualization for Machine Learning
Nowadays, machine learning (ML) teams have multiple concurrent ML workflows for different applications. Each workflow typically involves many experiments, iterations, and collaborative activities and commonly takes months and sometimes years from initial data wrangling to model deployment. Organizationally, there is a large amount of intermediate data to be stored, processed, and maintained. \emph{Data virtualization} becomes a critical technology in an infrastructure to serve ML workflows. In …

Amazon accused of denying workplace accommodations for pregnant and disabled staff | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amazon-new-jersey-discrimination-pregnant-disabled-workers-b2850463.html