So far this year, 60% of global startup funding across stages — around $320 billion — went to rounds of $1 billion or more, per Crunchbase data, with such rounds instrumental in pushing global funding for the first half of the year to record levels.
Oracle, Amazon, Cloudflare and Block are all citing AI in 2026 workforce cuts. The reasoning behind each is not the same.
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OpenAI, AWS and the Pentagon are racing to embed forward-deployed engineers who redesign HR systems, largely without CHROs involved.
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Readiness isn’t a gate you pass through, and it isn’t a signal that arrives to tell you it’s safe to begin.
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Regulators are sifting through hundreds of comments about how a state should design its standard package.
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Eight in 10 HR professionals say their organization is not committing adequate resources to the professional development of their HR teams.
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Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medicines, therapies made from engineered proteins rather than synthetic chemistry (which are often used to…
AMD has agreed to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under an infrastructure agreement covering tens of billions of dollars’ worth of AI systems. Anthropic will deploy up to two gigawatts of capacity using AMD’s Instinct MI450-series accelerators, with deployment of the first gigawatt beginning in the first half of 2027. AMD’s investment will […]
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Nvidia’s new Medical Physics Simulation framework treats healthcare robots as physical AI systems that need embodied experience to learn, not just code. Physical AI is the term Nvidia and much of the robotics industry now use to describe machines that have to learn how the world behaves through contact, force, and consequence, rather than through […]
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Anthropic has released the Claude Security plugin for Claude Code in beta. The plugin runs a multi-agent vulnerability scan of a repository from inside an existing Claude Code session, then turns the findings you select into patch files that you review and apply yourself. Anthropic emphasized the tool’s versatility upon announcement, highlighting its capability to […]
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Gigatoken is an MIT-licensed Rust BPE tokenizer that encodes text at gigabytes per second. On a 144-core AMD EPYC 9565, it runs GPT-2 tokenization at 24.53 GB/s. That is 989x HuggingFace tokenizers and 681x tiktoken, against baselines already written in multithreaded Rust. The gains come from a hand-written SWAR pretokenizer and pretoken caching, not a faster BPE merge loop.
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Open speech recognition stopped being a Whisper monoculture in 2026. Cohere Transcribe, IBM Granite Speech 4.1, ARK-ASR and MOSS-Transcribe are now separated by less than one WER point on the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard — which means rank no longer decides anything. This roundup compares 16 open-weight models on word error rate, language coverage, streaming latency and license, and shows why the published averages cannot be subtracted from one another.
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With “blessings” from the original Jibo founders, iKairos is a wearable or desk-mounted “AI journal” that turns your family moments into AI images and video.
The episode has also intensified a broader debate in Washington over the influx of Chinese open models.
Google’s cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.
After IBM’s stock crashed last week on warnings of poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate hardware budget, temporarily.
ServiceNow’s investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.
AI group commits to buying tens of billions of dollars of AMD’s latest AI server chips
Designing and directing mixed human and agentic teams may be key to conducting the future of work
Increasing use of aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behaviour by leading models
Search giant says it will commit up to $205bn to AI investments in 2026
More entrepreneurs from China believe there are now greater opportunities at home than in Silicon Valley
Date & Time: Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 2:00 pm ET
Part of AI Week, this session features Cornerstone’s Kelly Carmody and Mike Siano who will explore invisible learning and how to move beyond traditional training to build skills continuously, in the flow of work.
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Date & Time: Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 2:00 pm ET
Part of AI Week, this session features Cornerstone workforce readiness experts and HR practitioners who will share first-hand experience building adaptive workforces inside real organizations:.
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In this tutorial, we explore EdgeBench as a practical benchmark for evaluating advanced AI agents across diverse task categories, runtime environments, and interaction-time budgets. We begin by downloading the dataset snapshot from Hugging Face, parsing the released task specifications, and examining the benchmark taxonomy, execution settings, internet requirements, judging logic, and scoring metadata. We then […]
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Cursor has made Cursor Router generally available for Teams and Enterprise plans. The system classifies each request on query, context, task complexity and domain, then routes it to the most suitable model. Cursor reports frontier-quality output at 60% savings in online A/B tests, and 30–50% savings for three early-access enterprise accounts measured against Opus 4.8 rates.
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NTT DATA Group uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to help 9,000 employees automate work, cut incident analysis to 30 minutes, and scale secure AI adoption.
Introducing OpenAI Presence, a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and chat agents for customer and internal workflows.
OpenAI outlines its commitment to advancing American science working with the U.S. Department of Energy and national labs to use frontier AI to accelerate discovery.
OpenAI announces Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia, with commitments to responsible energy, community investment, jobs, and access to Codex.
News organizations are using AI to strengthen reporting, grow audiences, and improve business operations, with OpenAI tools supporting journalists and publishers worldwide.
As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable.
There’s a debate going on in the Trump administration over how to handle increasingly powerful Chinese AI models.
In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do something about it. The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 200 organizations have signed President Donald Trump’s “rate payer protection pledge” that’s meant to […]
IIn March, Meta’s Oversight Board called on the company to “meet its public commitments and employ its own tools” to help quell the spread of deceptive generative AI content across platforms. Meta responded in July by introducing Content Seal – an invisible watermarking technology that flags images generated by the company’s new AI model. But […]
AMD says it’s going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company’s computing power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. As part of the new partnership, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD’s Instinct MI450 AI GPUs using the chipmaker’s new Helios rack-scale system, as reported […]
