Category: AI & Automation


  • As an employer, it’s essential to grasp the key HR laws that shape workplace practices. Familiarize yourself with the Fair Labor Standards Act, which establishes wage and overtime rules, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act that prohibits various forms of discrimination. Comprehension of the Family and Medical Leave Act guarantees you respect employee…

  • If you want to optimize your recruiting workflow, it’s vital to start by evaluating your current process. Identifying inefficiencies can lead to improvements that save time and resources. Collaborating with hiring managers to clearly define job roles is likewise important. Moreover, streamlining your screening methods and enhancing the candidate experience will make a significant difference.…

  • Black box AI isn’t enough: Why enterprise consulting is moving to grounded models

    Presented by SAP In an era where anyone can spin up an LLM, the real differentiator isn’t the AI technology itself, but the institutional knowledge it’s grounded in. Internal and partner consultants leading operational transformation can’t risk hallucinated guidance when their recommendations impact integrated processes across supply chain, manufacturing, finance, and other core functions. "Grounded…

  • Zencoder drops Zenflow, a free AI orchestration tool that pits Claude against OpenAI’s models to catch coding errors

    Zencoder, the Silicon Valley startup that builds AI-powered coding agents, released a free desktop application on Monday that it says will fundamentally change how software engineers interact with artificial intelligence — moving the industry beyond the freewheeling era of "vibe coding" toward a more disciplined, verifiable approach to AI-assisted development. The product, called Zenflow, introduces…

  • Zoom says it aced AI’s hardest exam. Critics say it copied off its neighbors.

    Zoom Video Communications, the company best known for keeping remote workers connected during the pandemic, announced last week that it had achieved the highest score ever recorded on one of artificial intelligence's most demanding tests — a claim that sent ripples of surprise, skepticism, and genuine curiosity through the technology industry. The San Jose-based company…

  • Bolmo’s architecture unlocks efficient byte‑level LM training without sacrificing quality

    Enterprises that want tokenizer-free multilingual models are increasingly turning to byte-level language models to reduce brittleness in noisy or low-resource text. To tap into that niche — and make it practical at scale — the Allen Institute of AI (Ai2) introduced Bolmo, a new family of models that leverage its Olmo 3 models by “bytefiying”…

  • Why agentic AI needs a new category of customer data

    Presented by Twilio The customer data infrastructure powering most enterprises was architected for a world that no longer exists: one where marketing interactions could be captured and processed in batches, where campaign timing was measured in days (not milliseconds), and where "personalization" meant inserting a first name into an email template. Conversational AI has shattered…

  • Korean AI startup Motif reveals 4 big lessons for training enterprise LLMs

    We've heard (and written, here at VentureBeat) lots about the generative AI race between the U.S. and China, as those have been the countries with the groups most active in fielding new models (with a shoutout to Cohere in Canada and Mistral in France). But now a Korean startup is making waves: last week, the…

  • Tokenization takes the lead in the fight for data security

    Presented by Capital One Software Tokenization is emerging as a cornerstone of modern data security, helping businesses separate the value of their data from its risk. During this VB in Conversation, Ravi Raghu, president, Capital One Software, talks about the ways tokenization can help reduce the value of breached data and preserve underlying data format…

  • Instagram and Facebook have unveiled a suite of enhancements aimed at improving account security and support, a move that holds significant implications for small business owners who rely on these platforms to connect with customers. The focus of these updates is to create a more streamlined and user-friendly experience for account recovery and support, which…