Among U.S. seed funding deals, it’s only the upper bands of larger and outlier seed rounds — those $10 million and above — that grew in 2025, Crunchbase data shows.
HR leaders came together in a closed-door UNLEASH America boardroom session to discuss how to craft a HR engagement model that builds trust – here’s a summary of the discussion.
Compliance is high stakes for HR teams – in an UNLEASH America boardroom, HR leaders gathered with experts from Experian and Aspect43 to discuss the risks and best practices regarding workplace compliance.
Experts say this PBM request for proposal season could be among the most consequential employers have ever faced.
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Consumers identify healthcare at the center of the affordability crisis, above food, rent and utilities. Affordability remains a concern for people with various types of insurance, from individual market plans to employer-sponsored insurance.
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AI lobbying surged to record levels in 2025 as federal policy favors flexibility, forcing HR leaders to build internal governance.
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To make the best choice on the HR tech marketplace, take a step back before diving into solution options and AI-powered “everything.”
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Human skills are increasingly essential for success in the AI era, but often fall down the priority list in favor of tech upskilling.
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RPA (robotic process automation) is a practical and proven way to reduce manual work in business processes without AI systems. By using software bots to follow fixed rules, companies can automate repetitive tasks like data entry and invoice processing, and to a certain extent, report generation. Adoption grew quickly in many sectors, especially in finance, […]
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Tencent AI Lab has released Covo-Audio, a 7B-parameter end-to-end Large Audio Language Model (LALM). The model is designed to unify speech processing and language intelligence by directly processing continuous audio inputs and generating audio outputs within a single architecture. System Architecture The Covo-Audio framework consists of four primary components designed for seamless cross-modal interaction: Hierarchical […]
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In the landscape of enterprise AI, the bridge between unstructured audio and actionable text has often been a bottleneck of proprietary APIs and complex cascaded pipelines. Today, Cohere—a company traditionally known for its text-generation and embedding models—has officially stepped into the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) market with the release of their latest model ‘Cohere Transcribe‘. […]
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AI companion platforms like OhChat and SinfulX are offering adult creators digital twins, who are always at their peak and stay monetizing.
In a letter sent Thursday morning, Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley press the Energy Information Agency to mandate annual electricity disclosure for data centers.
Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What’s the value of a human journalist, anyway?
OpenAI has paused plans to release a sexualized “adult mode” for ChatGPT, in its latest move to refocus on the company’s core products. According to The Financial Times, the erotic chatbot has been shelved “indefinitely” after facing pushback from employees and investors due to the problematic and harmful effects sexualized AI content can have on […]
European lawmakers have voted to delay key parts of the EU AI Act, the bloc’s flagship law for regulating artificial intelligence, while also backing proposals to ban nudify apps. The measures, approved by a large majority in the European Parliament, would push back compliance deadlines for developers of high-risk AI systems – those deemed to […]
Canvas, Webtoon’s platform for user-uploaded comics, is about to get a major overhaul that’s designed to help creators make more money and share their art with a wider audience. Today, Webtoon announced its plans to roll out a number of new features for Canvas that will make it easier for artists to build global followings […]
On Thursday, senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a letter to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) asking it to collect “comprehensive, annual energy-use disclosures” on data centers and make that information publicly available, as first reported by Wired. They’re urging the agency to “establish a mandatory annual reporting requirement for data centers,” […]
Wikipedia will no longer allow editors to write or rewrite articles using AI. The update, which was added to Wikipedia’s guidelines late last week, cites the tendency for AI-written articles to violate “several of Wikipedia’s core content policies” as the reason for the ban. The change applies to the English version of Wikipedia and will […]
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Meta and its AI glasses hardware partner EssilorLuxottica are getting ready to launch the next generation of their Ray-Ban AI glasses. That’s according to a series of FCC filings for […]
Google is expanding access to Search Live, a feature that lets you search for information using your voice and camera. The AI search assistant is now available in more than 200 countries and territories, as well as dozens of languages, according to an announcement on Thursday. Search Live rolled out broadly in the US last […]
The model, which lets enterprises build voice agents for sales and customer engagement, puts Mistral in direct competition with the likes of ElevenLabs, Deepgram, and OpenAI.
Fears of AI-driven job loss are growing fast, and they’re fueling backlash against data centers. Sen. Mark Warner suggests taxing them to help workers survive the transition.
Relatively light at just 2 billion parameters, the model is meant for use with consumer-grade GPUs for those who want to self-host it. It currently supports 14 languages.
Conntour uses AI models to let security teams query camera feeds using natural language to find any object, person, or situation.
The new model in CapCut will have built-in protections for making video from real faces or unauthorized intellectual property.
Senators Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren want the Energy Information Administration to gather more details about how data centers use power — and how that affects the grid.
It’s only the latest of several side projects that the AI startup has ditched over the past week.
Chinese AI models made by groups such as DeepSeek and MiniMax have overtaken US rivals in token consumption
Ivan Espinosa bets the future of the beleaguered Japanese carmaker on its autonomous technology
Sustained government initiatives over the past 10 years have helped the country establish itself as a key tech hub
More than a third of the €66.2bn worth of VC deals in Europe were in AI-related companies
From digital image software to payment services, these are the companies that delivered strong growth
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A few months after a widely publicized incident involving an employee’s political shirt, the retail giant is updating its dress code.
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