
Will Silicon Valley unleash a new wave of philanthropy?
Oliver Hanney of development economics hub VoxDev weighs in on the potential recipients of donations

Oliver Hanney of development economics hub VoxDev weighs in on the potential recipients of donations

In Q2, Europe posted its strongest quarter in four years for venture funding, Crunchbase data shows. All told, Europe-based startups raised $24 billion in the just-ended quarter, up around a third quarter over quarter and two-thirds higher than the $14.4 billion raised in Q2 2025.

Employees spend as much time checking an AI tool’s work as they do producing outcomes, creating a new HR catchprase—and a productivity drain.
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HR Executive’s 2026 Top 100 HR Tech Influencers list honors the voices shaping workforce technology and the future of HR.
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About 78% of all workers surveyed supported the idea of making electronic delivery the default.
The post Department of Labor may shift employer health plans to e-delivery appeared first on HR Executive.

AI ROI pressure is mounting, but measurable returns lag, according to this economist. Where does HR fit in the payback timeline?
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A thoughtful, thorough and documented decision-making process is not just a compliance ideal. It is the most effective risk-management strategy.
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Several NHS hospitals are preparing to use an AI-powered blood test to help assess women referred for possible womb cancer before invasive checks are carried out. According to The Guardian, around 90,000 postmenopausal women in England are referred by GPs each year for checks after experiencing heavy bleeding. About 10,000 women are diagnosed with womb […]
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SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a Cursor-trained model for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. It serves at 80 TPS, costs $2/$6 per million tokens, and ranks #1 on Harvey’s Legal Agent Benchmark.
The post SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.5, a Cursor-Trained Model for Coding, Agentic Tasks, and Knowledge Work at $2/M Input appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Ant Group’s Robbyant has released LingBot-VLA 2.0, an Apache-2.0 vision-language-action model for cross-embodiment robot manipulation. The 6B checkpoint is pretrained on roughly 60,000 hours of data, spanning 50,000 hours of robot trajectories across 20 robot configurations and 10,000 hours of egocentric human video. It maps every embodiment into a single 55-dimensional canonical action space, covering arms, dexterous hands, waists, heads, and mobile bases. A token-level, auxiliary-loss-free Mixture-of-Experts action expert scales capacity without adding a load-balancing loss. Dual-query distillation from LingBot-Depth and DINO-Video adds geometric and temporal supervision for future-aware control. On the GM-100 generalist benchmark it outperforms π0.5 and LingBot-VLA-1.0 on both evaluated platforms.
The post Robbyant Releases LingBot-VLA 2.0: An Open-Source 6B Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Model for Cross-Embodiment Robot Manipulation appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Datalab’s Lift is a focused document extraction tool with a specific promise: give it a PDF or image plus a JSON Schema, and it returns schema-shaped JSON directly. Instead of converting a document to Markdown first and then asking another model to extract fields, Lift reads rendered page images and attempts to emit the final […]
The post Datalab Lift vs the Field: How a 9B Schema-First Extractor Compares with NuExtract3, LlamaExtract, Marker, and Docling appeared first on MarkTechPost.

NVIDIA has released Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B, a compressed variant of Nemotron-3-Super. Iterative Puzzle alternates hardware-aware structural compression with short knowledge distillation recovery phases. The model drops from 120.7B total / 12.8B active parameters to 75.3B / 9.3B. On a single 8xB200 node it delivers 2.03x Super’s total throughput at 100 tok/s per user. On one H100, 1M-token concurrency rises from 1 request to 8.
The post NVIDIA Releases Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B: A Compressed Hybrid MoE LLM Delivering 2.03x Server Throughput at Matched User Throughput appeared first on MarkTechPost.

When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filled by gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a […]

The feature can do things like apply cinematic relighting to brighten up a dark clip, swap out a plain background for something fun, or add artistic styles to videos.

General Intuition is betting millions of hours of video game data can train the foundation models for physical AI, making it easier to build smarter robots with minimal real-world data.

Elon Musk’s tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.

Earlier this week, a picture seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in a state of extreme distress. It turned out to be an AI-generated fake.

The $300 million round is expected to be led by Menlo Ventures, Sifted reported.

Tech companies need to come clean about the mounting environmental fallout of their race to build more hubs

Los Angeles-based startup EdVisorly tells Crunchbase News exclusively that it has secured a $13.3 million Series A funding round to scale its AI-native platform, which automates the manual back-office workflows that can slow down university admissions.

Generative AI is enabling employees to create fake expense report documentation in just seconds, meaning HR needs to reimagine standard fraud protection strategies, while also looking at risk factors.
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“The No Surprises Act was designed to protect patients from unexpected medical bills, not to increase healthcare costs,” Catherine Gaffigan, president of health solutions at Elevance Health, said in a statement.
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Karalee Close argues that most organizations have mistaken deploying AI for transforming with it, and a small group of “Talent Reinventors” is pulling away.
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OpenAI released GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models now powering ChatGPT Voice. It uses a full-duplex architecture to listen and speak at once, and delegates search and reasoning to GPT-5.5.
The post OpenAI Releases GPT-Live and GPT-Live-1 mini: Full-Duplex Voice Models That Delegate Deeper Reasoning to GPT-5.5 appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Google AI Studio is rolling out Import from GitHub in Build mode. It transforms an existing repo into a runtime-compatible format. You can then iterate on it, deploy it, and more. Here is what changes for developers.
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Netflix engineers detailed how they handle wide partitions in Apache Cassandra for the TimeSeries Abstraction. Two approaches work together: Time Slice re-partitioning tunes future partitions at the table level, while dynamic partitioning detects and splits oversized partitions per TimeSeries ID on the read path. Detection runs via byte counting and Kafka, splits are checksum-validated, and Bloom filters route reads to parallel child partitions. Average read latency dropped from seconds to low double-digit milliseconds, with 500MB+ partitions staying available.
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A new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction, now powering ChatGPT Voice.

OpenAI Academy and the Walton Family Foundation are bringing hands-on AI Skills Jams to help K–12 educators build practical AI skills for the classroom.

A new analysis from OpenAI reveals issues in SWE-Bench Pro, a popular coding benchmark, raising concerns about reliability and accuracy in evaluating AI models.

Learn how OpenAI approaches government and national security partnerships, with principles for responsible AI use, democratic accountability, and public safety.

A new book claims that Mystery, who teaches awkward men how to hit on women, had sex and smoked weed with an AI chatbot named Miss Shira Always.

Experiments in using AI to build AI show that the future doesn’t just belong to the frontier labs.

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are betting on AI, health tech, and startups. Mohamed Salah is taking a more traditional route beyond football.

OpenAI is overhauling ChatGPT’s voice mode with a new model that it says is more like “talking to another person.” The new GPT-Live-1 is designed to interrupt you less and will also wait for you to continue speaking if you pause mid-conversation. During a press briefing, OpenAI research lead Kundan Kumar called GPT-Live-1 the company’s […]

AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11 billion valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.

ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly.