Rebar, a New York-based startup building an AI-generated quote system for commercial HVAC suppliers, told Crunchbase News exclusively that it has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round.
Legora, an AI platform built for lawyers, has raised $550 million in a Series D funding round, valuing the Swedish company at $5.55 billion.
The funding for Paris-based AMI to help it build AI “world models” represents the largest seed round ever for a European startup and one of the region’s largest fundings for an AI startup overall, per Crunchbase data.
Jessica Bayer, who leads DHR Global’s Corporate Affairs and Communications Practice, shares with UNLEASH why the future of AI‑driven leadership depends on transparency, thoughtful guardrails, and a renewed focus on human judgment.
Nearly half of all Americans who have retirement savings in a 401(k) or similar plan say they probably would not save for retirement otherwise.
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From Morgan Stanley to eBay, profitable companies are cutting jobs. What does that mean for workforce planning in 2026?
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Designing workplaces for cognitive differences is no longer a personal preference; it’s a business imperative.
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U.S. business travel carries real entry and compliance risks for employees. What HR leaders need to assess before approving the next trip.
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Pokémon Go was the world’s first augmented-reality megahit. Released in 2016 by the Google spinout Niantic, the AR twist on the juggernaut Pokémon franchise fast became a global phenomenon. From Chicago to Oslo to Enoshima, players hit the streets in the urgent hope of catching a Jigglypuff or a Squirtle or (with a huge amount…
In finance, achieving operational automation by integrating agentic AI requires a data-centric foundation to drive real value. Financial infrastructure provider SEI has engaged IBM to modernise its internal operations via AI and automation. The joint initiative focuses on process redesign and targeted system updates to deliver consistent client experiences, building a modern and data-enabled foundation […]
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A new ABB and NVIDIA partnership shows physical AI simulation is driving real ROI in factory automation and solving production hurdles. Manufacturers have often found it difficult to make intelligent robotics work reliably outside testing environments. The core issue is the gap between digital training models and actual factory floors, where lighting, material physics, and […]
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The race to build autonomous AI agents has hit a massive bottleneck: data. While frontier models like Claude Code and Codex CLI have demonstrated impressive proficiency in terminal environments, the training strategies and data mixtures behind them have remained closely guarded secrets. This lack of transparency has forced researchers and devs into a costly cycle […]
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ChatGPT introduces interactive visual explanations for math and science, helping students explore formulas, variables, and concepts in real time.
IH-Challenge trains models to prioritize trusted instructions, improving instruction hierarchy, safety steerability, and resistance to prompt injection attacks.
Google has injected Docs, Drive, Sheets, and Slides with its Gemini assistant, adding new features that can pull information from your emails and the web to help you draft content. I gave it a whirl.
X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war.
The rumored “HomePod with a screen” we’ve heard so much about was reportedly lined up for launch in 2025, and then this spring, and now, according to the latest updates, it’s on the shelf until this fall. Leaker Kosutami posted as much on X last week, and today, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman followed up with […]
The LinkedIn post seemed like yet another scam job offer, but Katya was desperate enough to click. After college, she’d struggled to make a living as a freelance journalist, gone to grad school, then pivoted to what she hoped would be a more stable career in content marketing — only to find AI had automated […]
Meta’s methods for identifying deepfakes are “not robust or comprehensive enough” to handle how quickly misinformation spreads during armed conflicts like the Iran war. That’s according to the Meta Oversight Board – a semi-independent body that guides the company’s content moderation practices – which is now calling on Meta to overhaul how it surfaces and […]
Google is embedding its Gemini AI assistant even more deeply within its Workspace apps. The changes, which are rolling out to Google Workspace and AI plan subscribers, include a new Gemini chat window inside Google Docs, a way to generate entire spreadsheets with AI, and a new Gemini-powered search feature in Drive. While Google Docs […]
Adobe announced more agentic AI features for its Creative Cloud apps this week, allowing users to edit images and documents by describing the changes to a chatbot. A native AI-assistant is now available in public beta for Photoshop on web and mobile, and some Adobe apps, including Acrobat and Express, will soon be available to […]
Public officials and journalists will soon be able to keep track of AI-generated deepfakes of themselves on YouTube through the platform’s likeness detection feature. The tool is already available to millions of content creators on YouTube, but beginning Tuesday, it will expand to a pilot group of journalists, government officials, and political candidates. (At a […]
A lot of people are mad at Ticketmaster, and have been for a long time. (Did Swifties directly create an antitrust trial? Discuss.) The US government’s case against Live Nation-Ticketmaster appeared poised to lay bare some of the strangeness of the music business, and maybe even change the way the company works. And then, well, […]
Meta is acquiring Moltbook, a Reddit-like platform where AI agents can make and comment on posts, as first reported by Axios. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Matthew Tye confirmed the Moltbook team will join Meta Superintelligence Labs as the company looks for “new ways for AI agents to work for people and […]
Last week, my colleagues discovered that Superhuman’s Grammarly had turned me into an AI editor, using my real name, without ever asking my permission. They did the same to my boss Nilay Patel, my colleagues David Pierce and Tom Warren, and – as Wired initially reported last Wednesday – many authors far more famous than […]
A federal judge has issued an order blocking Perplexity’s web browser-based AI agents from placing Amazon orders on a user’s behalf, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In a ruling on Monday, US District Judge Maxine Chesney writes that Amazon has “provided strong evidence” that Perplexity’s Comet browser accesses user accounts “without authorization” from the retail […]
Adobe is also adding new AI-powered image-editing features to Firefly.
YouTube’s AI deepfake detection tool is becoming available to politicians, journalists, and officials, letting them flag unauthorized likenesses for removal.
Meta says that Moltbook’s approach to “connecting agents through an always-on-directory” is novel.
Legora, an AI platform for lawyers, is now valued at $5.55 billion following a $550 million Series D led by Accel to fuel its growth in the U.S.
The option appears on the Google Photos Search screen and lets users pick which experience they want.
The multi-year deal involves at least a gigawatt of compute power and also includes a strategic investment from Nvidia.
AgentMail provides an API platform that lets you give AI agents their own email inboxes, with support for two-way conversations, parsing, threading, labeling, searching, and replying.
Instead of just reading an explanation or looking at a static diagram, users can now engage directly with interactive visuals.
AI can drive stronger early
monetization for apps, but sustaining value remains the challenge, RevenueCat’s latest report finds.
Health AI can answer questions, explain health records, manage prescription renewals, book appointments, and more.
