SoftBank Group's Vision Fund will lead a ¥13.7 billion ($101 million) Series D fundraising into Japanese startup LegalForce, in the world's biggest tech investor's fourth outlay in its home country. LegalForce, which uses AI to screen contracts for loopholes and potential legal risks, said other participants in the round include new investors Sequoia Capital China and Goldman Sachs Group, as well as existing backers Mitsubishi UFJ Capital and Mizuho Capital. This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software. Please add japantimes.co.jp and piano.io to your list of allowed sites. If this does not resolve the issue or you are unable to add the domains to your allowlist, please see this support page.

The video game industry increasingly has become a culture war battleground over the past decade. With the industry showing greater interest in unionization, it has become a focal point in tech industry organizing. Debates over pervasive sexism and racism have riven the industry, particularly in light of landmark workplace harassment and discrimination suits filed against some of the biggest companies in gaming. Geopolitical conflicts have played out in esports, too, as the war in Ukraine prompted teams and stakeholders in the space to cut ties with Russian companies and organizations. Some commentators have also traced the rise of Donald Trump to the GamerGate movement.

We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. If there is one thing common to all legal cases, it is documents. In decades past, the evidence collected in litigation was often confined to digging through folders and filing cabinets, in a process called discovery. Today, electronic discovery, or'ediscovery,' is the name of the game – with paper documents replaced by millions of emails, Slack messages and Zoom calls. MarketsandMarkets estimates the global ediscovery market size to grow from $9.3 billion in 2020 to $12.9 billion by 2025.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The Supreme Court Thursday ruled 6-3 that New York's regulations that made it difficult to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun were unconstitutionally restrictive, and that it should be easier to obtain such a license. The existing standard required an applicant to show "proper cause" for seeking a license, and allowed New York officials to exercise discretion in determining whether a person has shown a good enough reason for needing to carry a firearm. Stating that one wished to protect themselves or their property was not enough.

When Camille Roux sets out to make a work of art, he often turns to the internet for advice. "What's your favorite?" he recently tweeted, sharing four computer-generated variations on an abstract visual theme, along with a poll allowing people to register their preferences. The denizens of Twitter began to weigh in. Some cast a vote without comment, while others offered Roux a rationale. One user said they preferred a particular image over another "because the red makes it look more lush."

Three years ago, a Georgia Tech study uncovered a major flaw in self-driving vehicles: they find it much harder to see darker-skinned pedestrians. The researchers were testing how accurately the vehicles' artificial intelligence–based object detection models noticed pedestrians of different races. But no matter what variables they changed -- how big the person was in the image, whether they were partially blocked, what time of day it was -- the imbalance remained, raising fears that in real-life applications, racialized people could be at higher risk of being hit by a self-driving car. It's just one of far too many examples showing how AI can be biased and, as a result, harm already-marginalized groups. "Think of something like melanoma detection," says Shingai Manjengwa, director of technical education at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

PHNOM PENH – Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said Wednesday during talks with his ASEAN counterparts that maintaining a rules-based international order in the Indo-Pacific region is important, apparently with China's growing maritime assertiveness in mind. In pushing for Japan's vision of a "free and open" Indo-Pacific, Kishi called for a regional code of conduct in the South China Sea to be "effective, substantial and consistent with international law," his ministry said in a press release. This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software. Please add japantimes.co.jp and piano.io to your list of allowed sites. If this does not resolve the issue or you are unable to add the domains to your allowlist, please see this support page.

The federal Liberals introduced privacy legislation Thursday to give Canadians more control over their personal data, impose fines for non-compliant digital platforms and introduce new rules for the use of artificial intelligence. The bill, presented by Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, aims to fulfil his mandate to advance the federal digital charter, strengthen privacy protections for consumers and provide clear rules for fair competition in the online marketplace. Bill C-27, or the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022, revives some aspects of a previous bill, introduced by the Liberals in late 2020, that did not become law. Under the umbrella of the bill, a new Consumer Privacy Protection Act would aim to increase Canadians' control over their personal information and how it is handled by digital platforms. It would limit the information companies can collect on minors, and give Canadians the ability to request that digital platforms permanently delete their data.

Earlier this month, just in time for the release of Robert J. Marks's book Non-Computable You, the story broke that, after investigation, Google dismissed a software engineer's claim that the LaMDA AI chatbot really talked to him. Engineer Blake Lemoine, currently on leave, is now accusing Google of "bigotry" against the program. He has also accused Wired of misrepresenting the story. Wired reported that he had found an attorney for LaMDA but he claims that LaMDA itself asked him to find an attorney. I think every person is entitled to representation.

Unstructured data like emails, instant messages, and image files now make up 80 to 90 percent of corporate data – and it's growing three times faster than structured data, according to Gartner. To keep up with this onslaught of hard-to-manage data, companies are expected to invest $190 billion in AI by 2025. To help our community keep pace with advances in AI, Relativity hosted our first AI Bootcamp for Women in Law last week in Washington, DC. This invite-only event combined AI-focused sessions with networking events to provide the essential AI knowledge needed to be a legal innovation leader. Attendees received a working knowledge of AI, an AI Bootcamp certificate of completion, CLE credit, and RCE credits, and the 30 women in attendance left feeling empowered and inspired.