A host of interesting, under-the-radar recently funded startups caught our attention in the past month: one that’s developing nuclear-waste generated electricity on the moon, and another that aims to use AI to extract business intelligence from enterprise contracts. Let’s take a closer look.
AI anxiety is everywhere, but Sam Altman and Yale’s jobs data agree: The disruption isn’t here yet. But that doesn’t mean HR can rest.
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Only one in three orgs are effectively using data analytics to evaluate compliance, suggesting HR needs to move from merely reporting metrics to extracting insight.
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A new report finds that mandatory full-time RTO policies are adding almost six weeks of commuting time for employees—a loss of $8,158 per employee annually. It’s an impact that experts say could affect productivity, performance and, ultimately, retention.
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Hospitals, clinics and home health services lead hiring, offsetting weaker gains in other industries.
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Too often, workforce decisions are improvised, debated repeatedly or revisited after execution is already underway.
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A recent demonstration from Mastercard suggests that payment systems may be heading toward a future where software agents, not people, complete purchases. During the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Mastercard showed what it described as its first fully authenticated “agentic commerce” transaction. In the demo, as reported by Times of India, an AI agent searched […]
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OpenAI announces Frontier Alliance Partners to help enterprises move from AI pilots to production with secure, scalable agent deployments.
SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and mismeasures frontier coding progress. Our analysis shows flawed tests and training leakage. We recommend SWE-bench Pro.
This episode of Uncanny Valley covers the people resigning from AI companies and the humans getting hired by AI agents. Plus, we attend a soiree thrown by a conservative women’s magazine.
Last November, the House Oversight Committee had just released 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, and Luke Igel and some friends were clicking around, trying to follow the threads of conversation through garbled email threads and a PDF viewer that was, frankly, “gross.” In the coming months, the Department of Justice […]
As 2025 drew to a close, Instagram head Adam Mosseri ended the year by doom-posting about AI. “Authenticity is becoming infinitely reproducible,” Mosseri lamented. “Everything that made creators matter – the ability to be real, to connect, to have a voice that couldn’t be faked – is now accessible to anyone with the right tools.” […]
Anthropic claims DeepSeek and two other Chinese AI companies misused its Claude AI model in an attempt to improve their own products. In an announcement on Monday, Anthropic says the “industrial-scale campaigns” involved the creation of around 24,000 fraudulent accounts and more than 16 million exchanges with Claude, as reported earlier by The Wall Street […]
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon for a tense discussion over the military’s use of Claude. Hegseth has threatened to designate Anthropic a “supply chain risk.”
Citrini Research imagines a report from two years in the future, in which unemployment has doubled and the total value of the stock market has fallen by more than a third.
Five days to save up to $680 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket. These lowest rates of the year disappear on February 27 at 11:59 p.m. PT.
Spotify continues to test its AI-powered “Prompted Playlist” feature, now rolling out the tool to Premium subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden.
AI news app Particle can now pull in key moments from podcasts, letting readers instantly play short, relevant clips alongside related stories.
The company open sourced an 8-billion-parameter LLM, Steerling-8B, trained with a new architecture designed to make its actions easily interpretable.
OpenAI is partnering with four consulting giants in an effort to see more adoption of its OpenAI Frontier AI agent platform.
AI models are pushing against three frontiers at once: raw intelligence, response time, and a third quality you might call “extensibility.”
Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of using 24,000 fake accounts to distill Claude’s AI capabilities, as U.S. officials debate export controls aimed at slowing China’s AI progress.
Face-recognition tech is to be avoided, but there could be other potential wins
Could it ever replace human advice?
As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly
ByteDance, Alibaba and Moonshot among those targeting consumers with a promotional blitz during the week-long new year holiday
The world’s most populous country continues to struggle to find its place in an industry dominated by the US and China
Research that shows LLMs memorise more training data than previously thought raises questions about copyright infringement
Companies are seeking advice on how to provide energy to data centres and profit from artificial intelligence
New tools automating inbox management could ease a loathed productivity burden. But do they work?
Agencies are rushing to rate the debt of projects still under construction
Drones are reshaping the frontline with Russia — and the future of warfare
After receiving “substantial inbound investor interest,” AI-powered robotics company Apptronik says it raised $520 million in an extension of its $415 million Series A in February 2025, bringing the total round to over $935 million.
Now that AI infrastructure is absorbing hundreds of billions in annual spend, writes guest author and strategic adviser Itay Sagie, investors are no longer rewarding ambition alone — they are demanding proof that capital turns into durable cash flow.
Startup investors are increasingly turning to nuclear fusion and fission startups to supply our power-hungry era, and they’re not afraid to write big checks. The latest evidence of that confidence is a $450 million Series A that fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises announced Wednesday.
