May 18-24, 2026:
• Taking conversational AI up a notch: Humanly raises $25M Series B to accelerate volume hiring;
• Redefining the beef: iHire finds candidates more likely to apply if ad cites employer core values;
• Clarifying the distinction: AI has made knowledge a commodity; only your wisdom is irreplaceable;
• Fighting to retain its relevance in a new era: Google Search as you know it is over;
• Urging caution and care: Pope Leo uses first major papal text to warn about dangers of AI.
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Humanly, the AI hiring platform for hourly, frontline, and high-volume recruiting, today announced $25 million in Series B funding. The round included participation from SEEK Investments, Drive Capital, MassMutual Catalyst Fund and Zeal Capital Partners. Humanly’s platform uses conversational AI across chat, phone, and video to engage, qualify, and move candidates through the hiring process—helping companies hire faster, retain talent, and stay fully staffed.
Humanly is a TAtech Network Member.
A new iHire survey showed that 81% of job seekers are more likely to apply for a job if a posting mentions the company’s core values – emphasizing the importance of highlighting an organization’s employer brand and culture during the recruitment process. The survey of 933 U.S. candidates also suggested that 45% of workers have been employed by a company that had a set of core values but didn’t live by them or actively demonstrate them in the workplace.
iHire is a TAtech Network Member.
AI can give you knowledge for free now. The only content worth paying for, showing up for, or building a community around is wisdom. They’re not the same thing. Knowledge is what’s true. Wisdom is what to do. Right now, everyone has access to infinite knowledge. What’s scarce is wisdom.
The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over. At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — what the company describes as the biggest change to this entry point to the web since the search box debuted more than 25 years ago. Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times. Google is also introducing tools that can dispatch “information agents” to gather information on a user’s behalf, along with tools that let users build personalized mini apps tailored to their needs.
Pope Leo XIV has issued the first major theological text of his papacy, warning about the growing power of artificial intelligence and calling for stronger regulation of the technology. Released Monday, the 42,300-word encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” marks Pope Leo’s most sweeping statement yet on the promise and dangers of AI, a topic he has repeatedly spoken about in the year since his election.
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