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Legal tech is getting another big injection of capital. Sandstone has closed a thirty million dollar Series A to bring AI tools directly to in-house legal teams. The round was led by Lightspeed Partners, with Sequoia also joining in — a signal that enterprise legal software remains one of the quieter but more serious bets in the AI landscape right now.
Meanwhile, Apple wrapped its WWDC keynote and the verdict from observers is polite but pointed. Most of what the company announced — smarter Siri, text summaries, image generation — is already available on Android and through apps like Claude and ChatGPT. Apple is clearly playing catch-up, though one idea drew comparisons to the emerging practice of vibe coding, suggesting the company may be feeling its way toward something more distinctive.
And in a story that sits at the intersection of biotech and ambition, a longevity startup has dosed its first human patient with a technology called ER-one hundred, which the company claims can reverse aging at the cellular level. The target is age-related sight loss. It is early, it is experimental, and the gap between a promising mechanism and a proven therapy is wide — but it is a genuine first.
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