Francisco Partners (FP) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Weave Communications at an aggregate equity valuation of approximately $650 million, according to a news release.
Weave (NYSE: WEAV), founded in 2008 and based in Lehi, Utah, provides
San Francisco-based Fearn AI has raised $5.5 million to expand its AI-powered patent filing service, which it claims can speed up the process more than tenfold. The company charges fixed fees of $2,500 for a provisional patent application and $9,000
The NewYorkTimes.com reported that “Next Thursday, Google is sending an experimental satellite into orbit that will have enough computing power to answer simple A.I. queries from space.” The September 24, 2026 article entitled “Google Takes the A.I. Data Center Race
Last week, a federal District Court judge largely rejected Anthropic’s demurrer to Reddit’s suit accusing it of improperly gathering user content to train its AI model Claude. Reddit, Inc. v. Anthropic PBC, No. 3:25-cv-05643 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 19, 2026). In
As crypto-related litigation continues to mature, the focus has shifted beyond the threshold question of whether digital assets constitute securities. Increasingly, private plaintiffs are pursuing claims that resemble traditional securities litigation including allegations involving disclosure failures, market misconduct, and investor
The Daily Journal has Joyce L. Kennard, 1941 – 2026 — Retired justice, who rose from childhood poverty and wartime internment to become the first Asian American on California’s highest court, was known during her 25-year tenure for her independence,
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., Jennifer A. Riley, and Mike Rosenblatt Duane Morris Takeaways: On September 8, 2026, in Unger, et al v. The Walt Disney Company, No. 5:25-CV-01163 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 8, 2026), Judge Edward J. Davila granted Defendant’s
The federal Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (EFAA) of 2022 allows a plaintiff alleging sexual harassment to opt out of an enforceable arbitration agreement. In some California cases, the plaintiffs’ bar has included sexual harassment
