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Harvey Raises $200M to Put Legal Work on Autopilot

Legal startup Harvey raised $200 million in a new funding round co-led by GIC and Sequoia on March 25.

Legal startup Harvey raised $200 million in a new funding round co-led by GIC and Sequoia on March 25.

TPIsoftware and Phison Electronics have co-founded AISO (AI for Sovereignty), a Taiwan-led industry alliance aimed at enabling organizations to deploy on-premises AI with integrated hardware-software solutions. Backed by ITRI and supported by MOUs with Cathay Financial Holdings and Delta Electronics, AISO targets regulated sectors including finance, healthcare, and public administration.

OpenAI has appointed Kiran Mani, CEO of JioStar's digital division, as Managing Director for Asia-Pacific.

Voice-based payments are set to expand digital commerce access in India as Razorpay partners with Sarvam AI to enable transactions in local languages.

The distributed inference framework, co-developed with Red Hat, IBM Research, CoreWeave, and NVIDIA, moves under Linux Foundation governance to standardize Kubernetes-based AI serving.

ClimateAi uses machine learning on satellite, oceanic, and atmospheric data to help food and agribusiness companies see crop yield disruptions coming months before they happen. Its customers include Dole, Driscoll's, Suntory, and Oatly. Almost no one outside the industry has heard of it.

OpenAI retires Instant Checkout and shifts focus to product discovery, rolling out richer comparison tools, image-based search, and conversational browsing to all free and paid users this week.

With a Quantum Act expected in Brussels this quarter and only 5% of global private quantum capital flowing into European companies, investors are warning the bloc must move faster, on regulation, commercialization, and private funding, before the US and China pull too far ahead.

Sarvam AI, the Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence startup founded in 2023, is in advanced talks to raise up to $250 million from Nvidia, Accel and HCLTech at a $1.5 billion valuation. The deal, if finalized, would make Sarvam one of India's youngest unicorns and signal growing global confidence in India's push for sovereign AI infrastructure.

The funding highlights growing demand for faster and more cost-efficient interconnect technologies to address data bottlenecks as AI infrastructure scales.