It was going to be a fairly business as usual top 10 list this week until OpenAI decided to disrupt our Friday with news that it raised $110 billion in new funding. We also a number of megadeal rounds in sectors including semiconductors, AI, healthcare and biotech.
Have HR leaders set too much of a focus on the skills-based approach? In an exclusive conversation GE HealthCare’s CPO, Adam Holton, UNLEASH explores this idea in greater depth.
Three former Meta engineers have built the “spiritual successor” to communication platform Workplace: Slashwork. It aims to be an “indispensably useful HR tool” built for the AI age. UNLEASH sits down with CEO & Co-Founder Jackson Gabbard to find out how Slashwork will disrupt HR tech.
In this UNLEASH exclusive interview, ADP’s Chief Talent Officer, Jay Caldwell, shares how leaders are shaping how technology lands in the workplace – from ethics to engagement – and how organizations can harness AI to drive growth, rethink productivity, and put people at the center of every decision.
Rather than defaulting to higher employee contributions or reduced coverage, many employers are seeking structural, data-driven strategies that address cost drivers at their source.
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The proposed rule would rescind the Biden-era approach to independent contractor classification, replacing it with what is considered a more business-friendly standard.
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A prevailing narrative at the moment is that AI is reshaping entry-level roles so rapidly that it is significantly altering annual hiring numbers for early-career talent. In short: the end of entry-level roles is nigh. There’s no denying that AI is automating routine, repeatable tasks that have historically formed foundational skills for many early career […]
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GLP-1 cost pressure is now a talent retention issue. A new study found that 29% of employees would switch jobs for coverage, but these drugs aren’t cheap for employers.
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Burrowed in the alleys of Hongik-dong, a hushed residential neighborhood in eastern Seoul, is a faded stone-tiled building stamped “Korea Baduk Association,” the governing body for professional Go. The game is an ancient one, with sacred stature in South Korea. But inside the building, rooms once filled with the soft clatter of hands dipping into…
The machine that will make tomorrow’s AI chips possible has just been declared ready for mass production – and the clock for the industry’s next leap has officially started. ASML, the Dutch company that holds a global monopoly on commercial extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment, confirmed this week that its High-NA EUV tools have crossed the […]
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Banks are testing a new type of artificial intelligence, like agentic AI, that does more than scan for keywords or follow preset rules. Instead of relying only on static alerts, some trading desks are beginning to use systems designed to reason through patterns in real time and flag conduct that may need human review. Bloomberg […]
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Many organisations are eroding the foundations of business – productivity, competitiveness, and efficiency. This is happening due to poor implementation of human-AI collaboration, according to cloud data and AI consultancy, Datatonic. The company says in the next phase of enterprise AI, success will come from carefully-governed and designed AI that works alongside humans in “human-in-the-loop […]
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Improving trust in agentic AI for finance workflows remains a major priority for technology leaders today. Over the past two years, enterprises have rushed to put automated agents into real workflows, spanning customer support and back-office operations. These tools excel at retrieving information, yet they often struggle to provide consistent and explainable reasoning during multi-step […]
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Customizing Large Language Models (LLMs) currently presents a significant engineering trade-off between the flexibility of In-Context Learning (ICL) and the efficiency of Context Distillation (CD) or Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT). Tokyo-based Sakana AI has proposed a new approach to bypass these constraints through cost amortization. In two of their recent papers, they introduced Text-to-LoRA (T2L) and […]
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Microsoft and OpenAI continue to work closely across research, engineering, and product development, building on years of deep collaboration and shared success.
Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.
OpenAI and Amazon announce a strategic partnership bringing OpenAI’s Frontier platform to AWS, expanding AI infrastructure, custom models, and enterprise AI agents.
Stateful Runtime for Agents in Amazon Bedrock brings persistent orchestration, memory, and secure execution to multi-step AI workflows powered by OpenAI.
The app reads your email inbox and your meeting calendar, then gives you a short audio summary. It can help you spend less time scrolling, but of course, there are privacy drawbacks to consider.
A “thought experiment” about the impacts of AI sent stocks tumbling earlier this week. It’s probably going to keep happening.
Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.
OpenAI has closed another round of funding, totalling $110 billion being newly committed to the maker of ChatGPT, which it says has more than 900 million weekly active users and over 50 million consumer subscribers. Amazon is investing $50 billion and striking a deal that includes plans for custom models and more. Nvidia and SoftBank […]
In many ways, Samsung’s new phones are fairly normal upgrades. The S26 lines come with some useful new things – particularly the Privacy Display on the S26 Ultra, which looks like an extremely cool bit of tech and a really useful new feature – and a lot of iterative year-over-year changes. The new camera features, […]
It’s the day of the Pentagon’s looming ultimatum for Anthropic: allow the US military unchecked access to its technology, including for mass surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons, or potentially be designated a “supply chain risk” and potentially lose hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts. Amid the intensifying public statements and threats, tech workers […]
Can AI firms set limits on how and where the military uses their models? Anthropic is in heated negotiations with the Pentagon after refusing to comply with new military contract terms that would require it to loosen the guardrails on its AI models, allowing for “any lawful use,” even mass surveillance of Americans and fully […]
The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion valuation.
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While Anthropic has an existing partnership with the Pentagon, the AI company has remained firm that its technology not be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weaponry.
Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, “unifies every current AI capability into a single system.”
Suno lets users create music using natural language prompts, making it possible for people with little experience to generate audio with little effort.
The Pentagon is playing chicken with Anthropic over who gets to control how the military uses AI while communities across the country are blocking data center construction. As the AI debate has been flattened to “doomers versus boomers,” one state legislator is attempting to walk a middle road. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Alex Bores, a New York State Assemblymember and candidate for U.S. Congress. Bores sponsored New York’s […]
OpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding.
Anthropic and the Pentagon are clashing over AI use in autonomous weapons and surveillance, raising high-stakes questions about national security, corporate control, and who sets the rules for military AI.
Plus, Keir Starmer neutralises potential Send rebellion
Without careful handling, AI power demand could push up electricity prices and sink net zero plans
Results from chip group gave Wall Street indices an early knock but ‘progress’ in US-Iran talks aid afternoon recovery
