Anvil Robotics, an eight-month-old startup that aims to be the “Legos for robots,” has raised $5.5 million in a seed funding round, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
UNLEASH attended LinkedIn’s Talent Connect United Kingdom. The importance of mindset, adaptability and storytelling were the key themes of the London event keynotes and UNLEASH’s exclusive interview with LinkedIn’s Head of Global Talent Acquisition, Erin Scruggs.
Higher taxes on top earners are back in the national conversation, and the debate shapes how HR teams compensate senior talent.
The post What the ‘millionaire tax’ means for retention strategy appeared first on HR Executive.
An ADP report finds anxiety over job security and AI is particularly acute among lower-paid, repetitive task and/or non-management workers.
The post To ease AI-fueled job anxiety, ‘clarity’ is crucial appeared first on HR Executive.
Giving workers cash for coverage creates flexibility, and complexity, according to this expert.
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The workplace safety enforcement agency is launching a new voluntary program to streamline safety standards. One legal expert says the initiative symbolizes the agency’s shifting relationship with employers.
The post OSHA’s new safety program signals a ‘softer’ chapter for the enforcement agency appeared first on HR Executive.
The executives you support are paid to make complex decisions, but even the best can struggle when it comes to financial literacy, including executive compensation.
The post Executive compensation: Too many advisors, not enough ownership appeared first on HR Executive.
A Treasury action and a Flare/IBM X-Force report make a clear case that HR is on the front line of rooting out North Korean operatives.
The post How North Korean operatives get hired, and how HR can stop them appeared first on HR Executive.
Much of the current focus on AI safety has centred on models – how they are trained and monitored. But as systems become more autonomous, attention is changing toward the data those systems depend on. If the data feeding an AI system is fragmented, outdated, or lacks oversight, the system’s behaviour can become more unpredictable. […]
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The same technology that financial institutions deploying is being weaponised against them. That is the core tension running through Experian’s 2026 Future of Fraud Forecast, and it’s a tension the company is in a position to name because it sits on both sides of it. According to FTC data cited in the forecast, consumers lost […]
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In this tutorial, we build a complete AgentScope workflow from the ground up and run everything in Colab. We start by wiring OpenAI through AgentScope and validating a basic model call to understand how messages and responses are handled. From there, we define custom tool functions, register them in a toolkit, and inspect the auto-generated […]
The post How to Build Production Ready AgentScope Workflows with ReAct Agents, Custom Tools, Multi-Agent Debate, Structured Output and Concurrent Pipelines appeared first on MarkTechPost.
IBM has announced the release of Granite 4.0 3B Vision, a vision-language model (VLM) engineered specifically for enterprise-grade document data extraction. Departing from the monolithic approach of larger multimodal models, the 4.0 Vision release is architected as a specialized adapter designed to bring high-fidelity visual reasoning to the Granite 4.0 Micro language backbone. This release […]
The post IBM Releases Granite 4.0 3B Vision: A New Vision Language Model for Enterprise Grade Document Data Extraction appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Global convenience store giant 7-Eleven had a time to hire problem – it was taking too long and had the potential to affect bottom lines. In an exclusive interview, 7-Eleven’s Head of Talent Acquisition, Rachel Allen, tells UNLEASH how the company improved hiring times and decision making.
With crowded agency signals and budgets tight, compliance can lose ground. Experts warn that the exposure can be difficult to recover from.
The post Why compliance budget cuts feel safe right now. And why they’re not appeared first on HR Executive.
A non-network plan proposal could help companies like Sidecar and Imagine360 compete with the HMOs and the PPOs.
The post Some 2027 ACA exchange plans could ditch provider networks appeared first on HR Executive.
The Department of Labor initiative aims to ease access to AI skills-building efforts and support efforts to create an AI-literate American workforce.
The post Feds launch text-based training: “Make America AI-Ready” appeared first on HR Executive.
Weeks after predictions about coming layoffs at HR tech giant Oracle, the company laid off thousands this week in an early morning email.
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Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 3:00 pm ET
Join us as we discuss new compliance challenges presented by AI in human resources, and how to make it your organization’s strategic advantage
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AI is everywhere in the enterprise. The translation workflow often is not. That is the core finding of DeepL’s 2026 Language AI report, “Borderless Business: Transforming Translation in the Age of AI,” published on March 10. Despite broad AI investment across business functions, the report reveals that language and multilingual operations–workflows that touch sales, legal, customer support, and […]
The post DeepL’s Borderless Business report reveals 83% of enterprises are still behind on language AI appeared first on AI News.
Global AI investment is accelerating, yet KPMG data shows the gap between enterprise AI spend and measurable business value is widening fast. The headline figure from KPMG’s first quarterly Global AI Pulse survey is blunt: despite global organisations planning to spend a weighted average of $186 million on AI over the next 12 months, only […]
The post KPMG: Inside the AI agent playbook driving enterprise margin gains appeared first on AI News.
In this tutorial, we build and run a Colab workflow for Gemma 3 1B Instruct using Hugging Face Transformers and HF Token, in a practical, reproducible, and easy-to-follow step-by-step manner. We begin by installing the required libraries, securely authenticating with our Hugging Face token, and loading the tokenizer and model onto the available device with […]
The post How to Build a Production-Ready Gemma 3 1B Instruct Generation AI Pipeline with Hugging Face Transformers, Chat Templates, and Colab Inference appeared first on MarkTechPost.
In the field of vision-language models (VLMs), the ability to bridge the gap between visual perception and logical code execution has traditionally faced a performance trade-off. Many models excel at describing an image but struggle to translate that visual information into the rigorous syntax required for software engineering. Zhipu AI’s (Z.ai) GLM-5V-Turbo is a vision […]
The post Z.ai Launches GLM-5V-Turbo: A Native Multimodal Vision Coding Model Optimized for OpenClaw and High-Capacity Agentic Engineering Workflows Everywhere appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Star Wars producer Kathleen Kennedy was one of the few skeptics at the Runway AI Summit, where AI was compared to fire and the printing press just a week after Sora’s death.
A new study from researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz suggests models will disobey human commands to protect their own kind.
If you’re tired of controlling Stream Deck devices by manually pushing buttons, then good news: Elgato will now let you delegate that task to a chatbot instead. The Stream Deck 7.4 software update released today introduces Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, allowing AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Nvidia G-Assist to find and activate Stream […]
StrictlyVC San Francisco brings leaders from TDK Ventures, Replit, and more together on April 30. Space is limited. Register here for your pass.
The firm says it can reduce the cost of chip development by more than 75% and cut the timeline by more than half.
Meta’s upcoming Hyperion AI data center will be powered by 10 new natural gas plants.
Anthropic executives said it was an accident and retracted the bulk of the takedown notices.
The FTSE 100 group is combining its food business with McCormick to create a $66bn food giant
The curious case of Emilia Carrière, alleged comms professional
Venture capital firms know their dollars go a lot further here than in Silicon Valley
The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs. Crunchbase data shows investors poured $297 billion into 6,000 startups globally in the quarter, up around 150% quarter over quarter and year over year, marking an all-time high for global venture investment not approached by any other quarter on record.
One of the largest community college systems in Texas is leaning into AI-powered tech to transform its HR processes, with a focus on strong governance and ongoing process improvement.
The post How Dallas College cut hiring cycle time by 50% appeared first on HR Executive.
Companies that don’t adhere to President Trump’s “strict neutrality” mandate may find themselves in serious legal trouble.
The post Empowerment or exclusion? Navigating the EEOC’s new ‘strict neutrality’ mandate appeared first on HR Executive.
When Zeus, a medical student living in a hilltop city in central Nigeria, returns to his studio apartment from a long day at the hospital, he turns on his ring light, straps his iPhone to his forehead, and starts recording himself. He raises his hands in front of him like a sleepwalker and puts a…
