AI desperately needs more adult supervision
The critical challenge is to build institutions that protect us from tech companies and the state
The critical challenge is to build institutions that protect us from tech companies and the state
The April rankings of busiest startup investors were topped by well-established VCs such as Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures, tech giants like Google and Amazon, and a few names that don’t commonly show up in the lists.
Xpanner, a startup automating construction work through robotics and physical AI technology, has raised $18 million in a Series B round, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively. Existing backer Korea Investment Partners (KIP) led the financing, which is described as a bridge round. KB Investment Co. (KBIC) also participated. The raise brings Santa Fe Springs, […]
HR leaders joined SAP SuccessFactors for a closed-door UNLEASH America boardroom to discuss how agentic AI is changing leadership and the workforce. With AI agents becoming more commonplace in daily tasks, employees are embracing the change, but HR needs to be at the forefront of this trend.
The European Union (EU) has delayed the compliance deadlines for high-risk elements of the EU AI Act, which includes HR uses of AI. UNLEASH spoke to analysts, lawyers and vendors to find out what decisions HR leaders must make now – how can they use the additional time wisely?
Walmart joins Meta, Amazon and Oracle in 2026 layoffs. Here’s what the 1,000-person reduction signals for HR and AI org design.
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The search for top talent has never been more data-driven—or more human.
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A 2026 lawsuit says BOLD Limited secretly controls Monster, CareerBuilder and 18 other resume brands, and traps job seekers in subscriptions.
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A “hospital bill” would have to show whether the care was delivered on the main campus or at an outpatient facility.
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M&Ms maker Mars empowers associates with Gemini AI agents, breaking silos across global brands for scalable, worker-driven tech adoption.
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When Jennifer got a job doing research for a nonprofit in 2023, she ran her new professional headshot through a facial recognition program. She wanted to see if the tech would pull up the porn videos she’d made more than 10 years before, when she was in her early 20s. It did in fact return…
Financial services companies have unique needs when it comes to business AI. They operate in one of the most highly regulated sectors while responding to external events that are updated by the second. As a result, the success of agentic AI in financial services depends less on the sophistication of the system and more on…
When generative AI first moved from research labs into real-world business applications, enterprises made a tacit bargain: “Capability now, control later.” Feed your proprietary data into third-party AI models, and you will get powerful results. But your data passes through systems you do not own, under governance you do not set. The protections you rely…
OpenAI details its response to the TanStack “Mini Shai-Hulud” supply chain attack, outlines protections taken to secure systems and signing certificates, and explains why macOS users must update OpenAI apps by June 12, 2026. Learn what happened, what was affected, and how OpenAI is strengthening defenses against evolving software supply chain threats.
Next week, Meta is cutting about 10 percent of its staff. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen current and former employees about what it’s like inside a company where “everyone is unhappy.”
The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how they understand what’s true.
Watch fans spent a week falling in love with colorful Royal Oak wristwatches that didn’t exist—then the real thing arrived. Now, fantasy is becoming a manufacturing opportunity.
The tyranny of software is almost over. Since the first computer programmers wrote the first computer programs, we, the users of that software, have been forced to live in the worlds those programs create. The features are the features. The design is the design. Want something else, something better? Learn to code, I guess. Until […]
Over 70 percent of Americans oppose AI data center construction in their area, according to a new Gallup survey. Just 7 percent said they were “strongly” in favor of new data centers. According to Gallup, data centers are so strongly disliked that Americans would prefer to live near a nuclear power plant than a data […]
Legal tech startups, including Clio, which just hit $500 million in ARR, are seeing massive customer adoption.
“The conversation is sort of happening in Silicon Valley around one thing, and a totally different conversation is happening among consumers.”
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Wirestock has over 700,000 creators on its platform, which supplies photos, videos and 3D content to AI labs.
This is Cisco’s latest layoff in recent years, while the company’s chief executive touts record revenue and growth.
Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.
Fastino Labs has released GLiGuard, a 300M parameter open-source safety moderation model that evaluates four safety tasks — prompt safety, jailbreak strategy detection, harm category classification, and refusal detection — in a single forward pass. Built on an encoder architecture rather than the decoder-only design used by most guardrail models, GLiGuard achieves up to 16x higher throughput and 16.6x lower latency than current state-of-the-art models, while matching or exceeding the accuracy of models 23 to 90 times its size across nine safety benchmarks. Model weights are available under the Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face.
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63% of organizations have no AI governance policy. Shadow AI is already running inside your stack — here is the data.
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In this tutorial, we build a realistic Zero-Trust network simulation by modeling a micro-segmented environment as a directed graph and forcing every request to earn access through continuous verification. We implement a dynamic policy engine that blends ABAC-style permissions with device posture, MFA, path reachability, zone sensitivity, and live risk signals such as anomaly and […]
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Nous Research releases Token Superposition Training (TST), a two-phase pre-training method that cuts wall-clock training time by up to 2.5x at matched FLOPs by averaging contiguous token embeddings into bags during Phase 1 and reverting to standard next-token prediction in Phase 2 — without changing the model architecture, tokenizer, optimizer, or inference-time behavior. Validated at 270M, 600M, 3B dense, and 10B-A1B MoE scales.
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Workers are reporting feeling overwhelmed by the new technology
Chipmaker valued at $40bn in sign of high demand for AI stocks
Defense tech startup Anduril Industries has raised $5 billion at a $61 billion valuation — double its previous valuation — as defense-tech startups haul in record amounts of venture cash.
After years of heavy fundraising in the private markets and scrapping earlier IPO plans, AI chip startup Cerebras Systems is finally making its public-market debut on the Nasdaq.
People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it. A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month, he said, his phone had been inundated by calls from “strangers” who were “looking for a lawyer, a product designer, a…
Learn how OpenAI built a secure sandbox for Codex on Windows, enabling safe, efficient coding agents with controlled file access and network restrictions.
In Musk v. Altman, the company claimed a remarkable trophy was physical proof of Elon Musk’s concerning behavior.