After compressing models from major AI labs including OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek and Mistral AI, Multiverse Computing has launched both an app that showcases the capabilities of its compressed models and an API that makes them more widely available.
The company is currently letting users in the U.K. try out Alexa+ for free via an early access program.
Industry under threat from fraudsters uploading and repeatedly playing tracks created by AI to extract royalties
China is likely to be both the testing ground and a leader in the use of agents
UNLEASH America 2026 hosted its first-ever CHRO Summit, a half-day event offering HR leaders from organizations defining the future of work the opportunity to connect and learn in a collaborative environment. Emceed by Frank Congiu, EVP, Human Capital Strategy and Executive Partnerships at Randstad Enterprises, the Summit blended panels and roundtables to dig into the challenges and opportunities…
UNLEASH America returns to Las Vegas. The 2026 show kicked off with a series of inspiring, exclusive summits, featuring top HR leaders, analysts and academics. For the Talent and AI Summits on Day One of UNLEASH America 2026, CHROs from Grupo OLX and Cardinal Group joined thought leaders including David Green, Jess Von Bank, Jason Averbook, Gary Bolles, Madeline Laurano and David Francis to…
Here’s everything you need to know from UNLEASH America Day Two, featuring exclusive insights from Amy Edmondson, Peter Hinssen and Ethan Mollick.
Meta is reportedly planning on cutting about 20% of staff to fund AI investments. This could raise tough questions for HR and workers.
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A report from Autorek, a provider of AI solutions to the insurance industry has produced a report that describes operational drag in companies’ internal processes that not only affect overall efficiency but cause an impediment to the effective implementation of AI in insurance concerns. Insurance Operations & Financial Transformation 2026 [email wall] draws from a […]
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Mastercard has developed a large tabular model (an LTM as opposed to an LLM) that’s trained on transaction data rather than text or images to help it address security and authenticity issues in digital payments. The company has trained a foundation model on billions of card transactions, with the intention of expanding to hundreds of […]
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The Baidu Qianfan Team introduced Qianfan-OCR, a 4B-parameter end-to-end model designed to unify document parsing, layout analysis, and document understanding within a single vision-language architecture. Unlike traditional multi-stage OCR pipelines that chain separate modules for layout detection and text recognition, Qianfan-OCR performs direct image-to-Markdown conversion and supports prompt-driven tasks like table extraction and document question […]
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Autonomous LLM agents like OpenClaw are shifting the paradigm from passive assistants to proactive entities capable of executing complex, long-horizon tasks through high-privilege system access. However, a security analysis research report from Tsinghua University and Ant Group reveals that OpenClaw’s ‘kernel-plugin’ architecture—anchored by a pi-coding-agent serving as the Minimal Trusted Computing Base (TCB)—is vulnerable to […]
The post Tsinghua and Ant Group Researchers Unveil a Five-Layer Lifecycle-Oriented Security Framework to Mitigate Autonomous LLM Agent Vulnerabilities in OpenClaw appeared first on MarkTechPost.
OpenAI Japan announces the Japan Teen Safety Blueprint, introducing stronger age protections, parental controls, and well-being safeguards for teens using generative AI.
After OpenAI’s Instant Checkout feature fell short, Walmart is instead embedding its Sparky chatbot directly into ChatGPT and Google Gemini.
When an Australian tech entrepreneur with no background in biology or medicine said ChatGPT helped save his dog from cancer, the story spread with the kind of validation Big Tech has long craved: proof that AI will revolutionize medicine and take on one of its deadliest diseases. The reality, as usual, is more complicated. The […]
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With its Series A, Sequen is bringing its proprietary AI ranking and personalization technology to large consumer business.
The company has raised $12 million in seed funding to build an AI operating system for enterprise.
Artificial intelligence models are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best — and who decides that? Arena, formerly LM Arena, has emerged as the de facto public leaderboard for frontier LLMs, influencing funding, launches, and PR cycles. In just seven months, the startup went from a UC Berkeley PhD research […]
From summarizing emails, drafting content, organizing data, and tracking meetings, here are all the best Gemini features in Google Workspace.
Rebel Audio is a new all-in-one podcasting tool that allows creators to record podcasts, edit, clip content for social, and publish episodes, all without ever leaving the platform.
Patreon CEO Jack Conte says AI companies should pay creators for training data, arguing their fair use defense falls apart when they license content from major publishers.
Nvidia’s networking business raked in $11 billion last quarter despite getting significantly less fanfare than chips and gaming.
Nothing CEO Carl Pei says AI agents will eventually replace apps, shifting smartphones toward systems that understand intent and act on a user’s behalf.
Altman expresses gratitude for people who knew how to write their code from scratch. The internet replies with salty jokes.
A rogue AI agent inadvertently exposed Meta company and user data to engineers who didn’t have permission to see it.
OpenClaw takes China by storm as local governments encourage creation of AI agents for productivity gains
The head of the European office of GV talks about the AI investment cycle and predicts a comeback for Google Glass-style smart glasses
Stanford researchers analysing 391,000 messages warn conversational technology may reinforce psychological vulnerabilities
Blockbuster junk bond and loan offering will test investor appetite at a time of heightened nerves over AI disruptions
More lessons from the jagged frontiers of new technology
Rift deepens as start-up tests limits of Microsoft’s exclusive rights to host its models
New technology is transforming house-hunting — but will Machine vision and Gaussian splats replace portals and estate agents?
To understand what’s holding the 2026 IPO market back and what could unlock it, Crunchbase News recently spoke with Mike Bellin, U.S. IPO services leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The authors’ Work Experience model can create a situation where work happens for the worker instead of to the worker.
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The question is not just “what is a fair wage?” but “how do we ensure pay trulyreflects impact and contribution?”
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