# hr technology (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover hr technology. Page: Feed: --- ## [Employees Turn to AI for Advice Instead of Their Bosses](https://www.hrotoday.com/news/ticker/employees-turn-to-ai-for-advice-instead-of-their-bosses/) _2026-08-21 · Gillian.Manning@sharedxpertise.com · HRO Today_ A new survey found that the large majority of employees turn to ChatGPT rather than their team members. They say it understands their work better. By Gillian Manning Who understands an organization better than the people working in it? Well, according to new data from Resume Now, 70% of employees say that ChatGPT understands their work challenges better than their managers. Another 72% say that… ## [AI Integration: The Mistakes, The Pivots, The Wins](https://www.hrotoday.com/hrota-livestream/ai-integration-the-mistakes-the-pivots-the-wins/) _2026-08-20 · Connor Feeney · HRO Today_ You must be logged in to access this page, please enter your details below. Username Password Remember Me Forgot Password? The post AI Integration: The Mistakes, The Pivots, The Wins appeared first on HRO Today . ## [The 5 Biggest Concerns for HR Leaders Right Now](https://www.hrotoday.com/news/ticker/the-5-biggest-concerns-for-hr-leaders-right-now/) _2026-08-20 · Gillian.Manning@sharedxpertise.com · HRO Today_ A new study found what areas are of the highest priority to companies as businesses head near the end of the third quarter. By Gillian Manning The state of business is always changing, but a report from Surface analyzed data from 650 companies across various industries and pinpointed the primary focuses of HR leaders today. According to the report, the core workforce priorities for the next 12… ## [Human Resources New Technology Quarterly Summary: Q2 2026](https://www.hrotoday.com/market-intelligence/research/human-resources-new-technology-quarterly-summary-q2-2026/) _2026-08-20 · Alexis Whyte · HRO Today_ Year-round, the HR space develops and funds new technologies. This quarterly report provides monthly updates to track movement within the HR technology sector and the innovation they bring. For a successful and future-ready global workforce, HR technology announcements should reflect labor market needs and provide critical information about shifts in the HR space. By Alexis Voglino-Whyte Key… ## [Space Raises $2.4 Million Led by a16z Speedrun to Build the Ai-Native Filesystem for Humans and Agents](https://technologyaiinsights.com/space-raises-2-4-million-led-by-a16z-speedrun-to-build-the-ai-native-filesystem-for-humans-and-agents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=space-raises-2-4-million-led-by-a16z-speedrun-to-build-the-ai-native-filesystem-for-humans-and-agents) _2026-08-18 · AI Media Room · technologyaiinsights.com_ Space is building a distributed filesystem that lets humans and agents instantly access and work across petabytes of live data while using zero local disk space. Cloud storage was supposed to make computers feel limitless. Yet workflows remain constrained by the disk inside each device. The cloud gave data another place to live, but not... The post Space Raises $2.4 Million Led by a16z Speedrun to… ## [HRO Today EMEA July/August 2026](https://www.hrotoday.com/magazine/hro-today-emea/hro-today-emea-july-august-2026/) _2026-08-18 · Gillian.Manning@sharedxpertise.com · HRO Today_ Read the full HRO Today EMEA July/August 2026 edition here! The post HRO Today EMEA July/August 2026 appeared first on HRO Today . ## [2026 Baker’s Dozen Customer Satisfaction Ratings: Employee Recognition](https://www.hrotoday.com/magazine/hro-today/2026-bakers-dozen-customer-satisfaction-ratings-employee-recognition/) _2026-08-18 · Gillian.Manning@sharedxpertise.com · HRO Today_ View the top-rated providers of recognition in the industry. By The Editors HRO Today’s Baker’s Dozen Customer Satisfaction Ratings™ are based solely on feedback from buyers of the rated services; the ratings are not based on the opinion of the HRO Today staff. We collect feedback annually through an online survey, which we distribute to buyers directly through our own mailing lists and indirectly… ## [Stuck in the Middle?](https://www.hrotoday.com/magazine/hro-today-emea/stuck-in-the-middle/) _2026-08-18 · Gillian.Manning@sharedxpertise.com · HRO Today_ Middle management gets a bad rep—here HR experts share how to implement strategy around these critical roles. By Simon Kent “Middle management is where strategy meets reality,” says Omowunmi Adewusi, general counsel and human resource director for AXA Mansard Insurance in Nigeria. “If we get it right, we unlock organisational velocity. If we neglect it, we create a bottleneck.” Adewusi’s… ## [Understanding Cultural Intelligence](https://www.hrotoday.com/magazine/hro-today-emea/understanding-cultural-intelligence/) _2026-08-18 · Gillian.Manning@sharedxpertise.com · HRO Today_ As organisations build their workforces from talent across the globe, managing cultural differences must be considered. By Simon Kent Since trade winds started blowing heavily laden ships around the world, business has been global. However, today’s organisations have to deal with a further dimension of globalisation: multinational talent. With few real geographic barriers, organisations can now… ## [Fostering Connection](https://www.hrotoday.com/magazine/hro-today-emea/fostering-connection/) _2026-08-18 · Gillian.Manning@sharedxpertise.com · HRO Today_ Organisations that leverage strategic peer-to-peer programmes will benefit from improvements in employee well-being, collaboration, and values reinforcement. By Simon Kent A strategic recognition and rewards approach is key to getting the best performance from employees. However, recognition from others within the workforce, like fellow colleagues and team members, can go even further. Such… ## [CLI-first decentralized GPU compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/4UZ7fAaecCcZ) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Pay workers or run your GPU for FFmpeg transcode and AI inference. ## [Editor’s Note: Unseen HR](https://www.hrotoday.com/magazine/hro-today-emea/editors-note-unseen-hr/) _2026-08-18 · Gillian.Manning@sharedxpertise.com · HRO Today_ The work of HR frequently goes unseen. There are parts of people management which are not visible to many in the organisation HR serves – unseen support structures felt by those who need them, but unappreciated by others. All of the subjects in this issue of have elements of this. Peer-to-peer appreciation at first seems like an easy thing to do: Simply enable fellow employees to highlight and… ## [Bridging the Divide Between C-Suite Expectations and AI Workforce Readiness](https://www.hrotoday.com/news/current-features/bridging-the-divide-between-c-suite-expectations-and-ai-workforce-readiness/) _2026-08-18 · Gillian.Manning@sharedxpertise.com · HRO Today_ There is a growing disconnect between executives’ AI ambitions and HR’s reality. Bridging this gap means leaving transactional operations behind and prioritizing strategic workforce enablement. By Gillian Manning The gap is widening. According to Protiviti’s latest AI Pulse Survey, while nearly 80% of C-suite executives are banking on AI to deliver rapid revenue growth and margin improvements… ## [Alloy Robotics Raises $8 Million to Debug Growing Robot Fleets With AI Agents](https://technologyaiinsights.com/alloy-robotics-raises-8m-ai-agents-robot-fleet-diagnostics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alloy-robotics-raises-8m-ai-agents-robot-fleet-diagnostics) _2026-08-11 · AI Media Room · technologyaiinsights.com_ AITech Insights Snapshot: Alloy Robotics has raised $8 million at an $80 million valuation to expand its AI agent platform for robot fleet diagnostics. The platform analyzes logs, telemetry, video, and sensor data to identify failures, regressions, and recurring patterns across growing fleets. Alloy Robotics, which builds AI agents that analyze robot data to identify... The post Alloy Robotics… ## [Echovane Raises $1M to Automate End-to-End Market Research With AI Agents](https://technologyaiinsights.com/echovane-raises-1m-ai-market-research-agents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=echovane-raises-1m-ai-market-research-agents) _2026-08-10 · AI Media Room · technologyaiinsights.com_ Market research is meant to accelerate decisions. The operation behind it often does the opposite, with researchers spending more time coordinating the process than interpreting what customers are actually saying. Echovane is building to change that. Today, the company announced $1 million in funding co-led by Titan Capital and Neon Fund to expand a permanently done-for-you... The post Echovane… ## [Endra Opens in New York, San Francisco, and London to Break the Engineering Bottleneck Holding up Construction](https://technologyaiinsights.com/endra-expands-ai-mep-platform-us-uk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=endra-expands-ai-mep-platform-us-uk) _2026-07-31 · AI Media Room · technologyaiinsights.com_ After a $50 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, Endra is scaling its AI-powered design platform for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering as data centers, electrification, and net-zero infrastructure put new pressure on a constrained global engineering workforce. Every building eventually runs into the same constraint: the engineering capacity required to make it real.... The… ## [Onton Debuts a New AI Model for Trustworthy Product Discovery](https://technologyaiinsights.com/onton-debuts-a-new-ai-model-for-trustworthy-product-discovery/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=onton-debuts-a-new-ai-model-for-trustworthy-product-discovery) _2026-07-29 · Kisankumar Sahani · technologyaiinsights.com_ The San Francisco company unveils proprietary research and a from-scratch model designed to help AI systems cut through synthetic content and manipulated recommendations as purchasing decisions increasingly shift from humans to agents. Onton today announced the launch of Ontology 1, a trust and authenticity model for the emerging agentic web, where AI systems increasingly research,... The post… ## [Freehand Raises $75M to Scale AI Teams Managing Supply Chain Spend for Fortune 500 Companies](https://technologyaiinsights.com/freehand-raises-75m-ai-supply-chain-teams/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=freehand-raises-75m-ai-supply-chain-teams) _2026-07-29 · AI Media Room · technologyaiinsights.com_ Freehand AI Agents autonomously manage supply-chain spend for Meta, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Dunkin’, Pfizer and Cardinal Health Freehand, whose AI agents manage supply-chain spend for the Fortune 500, today announced $75 million in funding co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners, with participation from PSP Growth — the fund led by former U.S.... The post Freehand Raises $75M… ## [Zuriq Raises $25.5 Million to Scale New Groundbreaking 2D Quantum Architecture](https://technologyaiinsights.com/zuriq-raises-25-5m-2d-quantum-architecture/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=zuriq-raises-25-5m-2d-quantum-architecture) _2026-07-28 · AI Media Room · technologyaiinsights.com_ The ETH Zürich spin-out is building trapped-ion processors on a novel two-dimensional architecture. The new funding will grow the team and expand its research efforts as the company works to increase the number of qubits it can put on a single chip. ZuriQ, a Swiss quantum computing company spun out of ETH Zürich, today announced... The post Zuriq Raises $25.5 Million to Scale New Groundbreaking 2D… ## [Liquidnitro Games Names Ex-Tencent Games Global CTO to Go Big on AI-Powered Game Production](https://technologyaiinsights.com/liquidnitro-games-cedrick-collomb-cto-series-a/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=liquidnitro-games-cedrick-collomb-cto-series-a) _2026-07-22 · AI Media Room · technologyaiinsights.com_ Fresh off its $19.1 million Series A, Liquidnitro Games brings onboard Cedrick Collomb, former CTO of Tencent Games Global and EA Mobile, as Chief Technology Officer, a signal of how far the company intends to push its platform-led model for building, launching, and scaling games worldwide. The old production math in gaming is broken. Bigger teams, larger... The post Liquidnitro Games Names… ## [Netchex Launches Mesh: AI HR Teammates for the Deskless Workforce](https://technologyaiinsights.com/netchex-mesh-ai-hr-teammates/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=netchex-mesh-ai-hr-teammates) _2026-07-20 · AI Media Room · technologyaiinsights.com_ Six AI specialists proactively handle payroll, compliance, scheduling, and HR work for restaurants, hotels, dealerships, and other real-world businesses, inside Netchex and inside ChatGPT & Claude Netchex, a payroll and human capital management (HCM) platform for businesses with deskless workforces, today announced Mesh, a team of AI HR teammates that anticipate problems and complete work... The… ## [Daily plans, scheduled by AI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/T9IQCbRHHXZ4) _2026-07-20 · **Sponsored**_ AI-made daily plans that schedule tasks and protect focus time. ## [Ex-Ultrahuman Exec Raises $5.5m for Aina, a New Hardware Interface for the Age of AI Beyond Touchscreens and Keyboards](https://technologyaiinsights.com/ex-ultrahuman-executive-raises-5-5m-for-aina-ai-hardware-interface/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ex-ultrahuman-executive-raises-5-5m-for-aina-ai-hardware-interface) _2026-07-16 · AI Media Room · technologyaiinsights.com_ Consumer hardware company Aina has announced a $5.5M seed round to build a general purpose interface for the age of AI beyond phone touchscreens and keyboards. Aina was operating as an HCI Lab for the last few months and is the company behind Dune, a popular three-key context-aware keypad, launched earlier this year. AI is... The post Ex-Ultrahuman Exec Raises $5.5m for Aina, a New Hardware…