Tech & AI
UKG adds AI tools for frontline staffing gaps and payroll checks
The company is also working to let employees and managers start selected workforce tasks through outside AI tools, while keeping access controls and workflows inside UKG.
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Tech & AI
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Tech & AI
Tenstorrent raises $1.5 billion after takeover interest from Intel and Qualcomm
Jim Keller’s 1,150-person AI chip company is valued at $6.2 billion as it funds Galaxy server manufacturing, chip licensing and global hiring.
Tech & AI
Nvidia releases open Nemotron models for private workplace AI
The lineup includes a 120-billion-parameter enterprise model for company infrastructure and smaller Bolt models for local research, coding and voice assistants.
Tech & AI
Hunt Scanlon Ventures backs millionways’ AI behavioral-assessment tools
The New York company is developing Thorsten-4, a model Hunt Scanlon says draws on 35 million tagged words of behavioral data.
Tech & AI
Veeva summit puts AI into drug-development workflows
Lilly, UCB, Pfizer, Sanofi and others are slated to present projects tied to submissions, safety-case processing, lab systems, clinical data and learning.
Tech & AI
Lantern launches Glo as AI-native staffing platform
The ATS and CRM replacement pitch centers on ranked recruiter work queues, shared client and candidate rooms, and human review for consequential automation.
Tech & AI
AMD’s Su seeks more AI memory in Seoul as MI455X load jumps 50%
AMD has begun shipping MI455 accelerators and Helios systems with HBM4 from Samsung and SK hynix, Su said during the visit.
Tech & AI
Tempo opens capacity and labor-cost data to AI assistants
The MCP Server gives Tempo Cloud customers read-only access through tools including Claude Code, Codex and Cursor at no additional charge.
Tech & AI
Yoodli moves AI roleplay platform into corporate training
The Oct. 7 expansion adds course creation, in-app coaching and skill measurement as customers use the software for onboarding, AI-tool training and certifications.
Tech & AI
Cigna targets $3 billion in savings by 2030, with AI aimed at employee tools and supplier management
The program, which the company says will self-fund, leans on automation, tighter supplier management and AI tools for employees. Part of the savings goes straight to earnings targets.
Tech & AI
Six AI developers sign a White House safety pact that carries no legal weight
The accord's four layers of controls target hacking, cyber, biological and chemical threats, and the auditors are chosen by the companies. Employers deploying the tools are left with the legal frame the administration keeps pointing to: laws already on the books.
Tech & AI
AMD agrees to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion in stock
Li will become AMD's chief scientist, and her cofounders will keep leading the lab AMD says will help shape its chip roadmap.
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