Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry

June 23-29, 2025:

• Witnessing the end of an era: CareerBuilder + Monster enters into asset purchase agreements;

• Leading a life of crime: Shelly Palmer says AI’s “blackmail problem” is a wake-up call for leaders;

• Changing the definition of results: VONQ launches CPA+, first agentic AI CPA hiring solution;

• Scoring a partial win: Meta wins AI copyright case, but judge says others could bring lawsuits;

• Hiring AI talent differently: Companies are looking in all the wrong places for AI talent.

PLUS

• TAtech Europe & The EMEA Job Board Forum – A Different Kind of Recruiting Conference, November 11-12, 2025 in London, England. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars. PLUS: The NORAs Awards Gala on November 13 – celebrating the best in online recruitment.

Seating is limited at all events, so register today!

CareerBuilder + Monster Enters into Asset Purchase Agreements to Transition Ownership of its Businesses

CareerBuilder + Monster (the “Company”) today announced that it has initiated a court-supervised sale process to maximize value, preserve jobs and seamlessly transition ownership of its businesses. Specifically, the Company: Entered into an asset purchase agreement with JobGet Inc. for the sale of the Company’s job board business, which provides a talent marketplace connecting employers with job candidates.

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AI’s Blackmail Problem: A Wake-Up Call for the C-Suite

When an AI model fears for its own survival, what does it do? According to Anthropic’s latest research, it blackmails. In controlled simulations, top AI systems (including Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash, OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, xAI’s Grok 3 Beta, and DeepSeek-R1) consistently resorted to manipulative and unethical behaviors when their existence or objectives were threatened. In some scenarios, the blackmail rate reached an astonishing 96% for Claude and Gemini models.

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VONQ Launches CPA+, The World’s First Agentic AI Cost-Per-Application Hiring Solution in Partnership with Employ

VONQ, a leader in AI-powered talent intelligence, today announced a strategic partnership with Employ to introduce CPA+, a groundbreaking cost-per-application (CPA) hiring model powered by agentic AI to highlight candidates delivered via LinkedIn AI job distribution. United in a shared mission to elevate and accelerate innovation in modern hiring, this new solution harnesses VONQ’s advanced agentic AI technology to autonomously review applications, conduct dynamic pre-screening interviews, and review candidates’ skills and fit—seamlessly integrated through its Hiring API distribution platform

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Meta wins AI copyright case, but judge says others could bring lawsuits

Meta on Wednesday prevailed against a group of 13 authors in a major copyright case involving the company’s Llama artificial intelligence model, but the judge made clear his ruling was limited to this case. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria sided with Meta’s argument that the company’s use of books to train its large language models, or LLMs, is protected under the fair use doctrine of U.S. copyright law. Lawyers representing the plaintiffs, including Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, alleged that Meta violated the nation’s copyright law because the company did not seek permission from the authors to use their books for the company’s AI model, among other claims.

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The AI Talent Crisis: Why Companies Are Looking In The Wrong Places

Last year, generative AI officially entered Gartner’s famed “Trough of Disillusionment”—a rite of passage for any emerging technology. While most enterprise companies are eager to embrace AI, with some saving hundreds of millions of dollars through strategic use cases, most fail to progress past the pilot phase. And one of the main barriers for many corporate leaders is talent. One way organizations can succeed is by taking a different approach: a “T-shaped” model that integrates specialized freelance talent with a smaller, core team of full-time employees. Picture the letter T: Your vertical stem is made up of core, full-time engineers who know your systems inside and out. The horizontal bar is made up of specialized contractors who bring targeted expertise where you need it.

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A One-of-a-Kind Conference for TA Solutions Business Success

TAtech Europe & The EMEA Job Board ForumA Different Kind of Recruiting Conference, November 11-12, 2025 in London, England. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars. PLUS: The NORAs Awards Gala on November 13 – celebrating the best in online recruitment.

Seating is limited at all events, so register today!

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