On Tuesday, Spotify expanded its Prompted Playlists feature to include podcasts, an update that could make it easier for Premium users to find new shows to listen to. Prompted Playlists were originally launched as a beta feature in December, but previously only worked for music. You can use the feature to effectively generate customized Discover […]
Arcee is a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a high-performing, massive, open source LLM. And it’s gaining popularity with OpenClaw users.
His project of mastering nature contains a warning for the excesses of our technological age
Claude Mythos opened to Amazon, Microsoft and Apple to detect hidden software vulnerabilities
In a quarter when nearly two-thirds of global venture capital went to just four companies, it’s easy to lose track of the many other companies getting funding to tackle interesting problems. We spotted five companies in just the past month working on issues from cleaner ferries and trains to foundational AI for the crop industry.
What has changed with AI is the spotlight HR is under, and the speed that they are expected to deliver, according to Forrest. UNLEASH sat down with Forrest to dig into Deloitte’s 2026 Human Capital Trends report and explore where HR needs to focus its decision-making in the age of AI.
Productivity is a top priority for companies, but the systems are getting in the way of progress. That’s the top-line takeaway of an UNLEASH America 2026 boardroom session – what decisions do HR teams need to make in response?
Anthropic’s massive qualitative AI study, spanning 159 countries, reveals workers’ hopes and fears are more personal than HR leaders realize.
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“I don’t think people realize how much health care costs are driving big companies to fire and not hire,” he wrote in a social media post.
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Starbucks will move to weekly pay for all U.S. store employees in response to partner feedback. Currently, baristas are paid every two weeks.
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Navigating external social unrest at work offers HR leaders the opportunity for learning and growth if approached intentionally.
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Within minutes of Oracle’s recent emailed layoff announcement going out, the news was all over LinkedIn. How can HR help control the narrative with such real-time reactions?
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Wednesday, May 6, 2026 at 2:00 pm ET
This webinar brings together perspectives from HR and operations to unpack what operating in real time looks like in practice.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2026 at 11:00 am ET
In this webinar, HR leaders will learn how to find ROI through technology fragmentation, rising costs and unpredictable outcomes.
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Unlike static, rules-based systems, AI agents can learn, adapt, and optimize processes dynamically. As they interact with data, systems, people, and other agents in real time, AI agents can execute entire workflows autonomously. But unlocking their potential requires redesigning processes around agents rather than bolting them onto fragmented legacy workflows using traditional optimization methods. Companies…
The Anthropic UK expansion story is less about diplomatic courtship and more about what happens when a government punishes a company for having principles. In late February, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a stark ultimatum: remove guardrails preventing Claude from being used for fully autonomous weapons and domestic mass surveillance, […]
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The failure mode for enterprise AI in 2026 is not what most people expected. It is not that the models are wrong, or that agents cannot reason, or that the technology is overhyped. The failure mode is that the data feeding those systems is fragmented, inconsistently labelled, and spread across dozens of applications that were […]
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Exciting times are ahead in the world of enterprise perimeter security with a new partnership between Thrive Logic, an AI agent-driven security and operational intelligence platform, and Asylon, a security robotics company. Together, the companies are to introduce physical AI into the network edge security arena, combining “autonomous perimeter patrols with agentic AI analytics and […]
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The AI lab’s Project Glasswing will bring together Apple, Google, and more than 45 other organizations. They’ll use the new Claude Mythos Preview model to test advancing AI cybersecurity capabilities.
Google says it has updated Gemini to better direct users to get mental health resources during moments of crisis. The change comes as the tech giant faces a wrongful death lawsuit alleging its chatbot “coached” a man to die by suicide, the latest in a string of lawsuits alleging tangible harm from AI products. When […]
Elon Musk’s Terafab AI chip project in Austin, Texas, is gaining a crucial new partner: Intel. On Tuesday, the American chipmaker announced it was signing on to help design and build the sprawling facility, which would supply AI chips to Musk’s two companies, SpaceX (newly merged with xAI) and Tesla. Musk needs AI chips to […]
The AI-powered musicmaker Suno is struggling to reach licensing deals with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. That’s according to a report from the Financial Times, which says both sides can’t agree on whether users should be able to share the AI-generated songs they create. “Universal wants AI-generated tracks to stay inside apps such […]
Anthropic is debuting a new AI model as part of a cybersecurity partnership with Nvidia, Google, Amazon Web Services, Apple, Microsoft, and other companies. Project Glasswing, as it’s called, is billed as a way for large companies, and potentially even the government, to flag vulnerabilities in their systems with virtually no human intervention. Anthropic is […]
On a recent episode of Equity, we talked to Arena Private Wealth to explore a growing trend: family offices bypassing VCs to gain direct exposure to AI startups, turning them from passive investors into active participants.
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Google is rolling out new features to make it easier for users to contribute local knowledge to Maps. Most notably, Gemini can now create captions when users are looking to share a photo or video about a place.
Anthropic bulked up its compute deal with Google and Broadcom as the company has seen its run-rate revenue surge to $30 billion.
Uber is expanding its AWS contract to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon’s chips. This is a thumb-of-the nose at Oracle and Google.
The new model will be used by a small number of high-profile companies to engage in defensive cybersecurity work.
Intel will join SpaceX and Tesla in an effort to build a new U.S. semiconductor factory in Texas, although the scope of its contributions are unclear.
Nvidia-backed Asia AI data center provider Firmus has now raised $1.35 billion in six months.
First-quarter earnings surge eightfold despite rising energy costs from Middle East war
Starling Bank executive proposed independent assessment to ensure minimum standards
One executive says there is ‘no path’ towards licensing deal under current proposal
Kyle Kosic joins Project Prometheus, the secretive start-up working on systems that can understand the physical world
