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Leading global EdTech company  LingoAce announced the launch of Tutor Luna, an AI-native English learning platform designed for children ages 4–12. Built around a proprietary AI-native learning engine, Tutor Luna continuously understands each learner’s progress, adapts instruction in real time, and personalizes learning experiences to support long-term language development. As generative AI rapidly reshapes education, LingoAce believes the next wave of innovation won’t come from adding more AI features, but from rethinking how learning itself is delivered. Tutor Luna reflects that shift: rather than functioning as another AI tutor that answers questions or drills practice sets, it’s designed to be an active participant in the learning process, one that understands each learner, adapts instruction, and supports meaningful skill development over time. “Technology alone doesn’t transform education — better learning experiences do,” said Hugh Yao, Found...

Acquisition will accelerate The Hartford’s growth in its Priority Business segment focused on small and midsize employers Transaction includes Equitable’s Employee Benefits technology and approximately $500 million in premium The Hartford  has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Equitable’s 1  Employee Benefits business, which focuses on providing small and midsize employers with flexible, non-medical benefits. The acquisition, which accelerates The Hartford’s Employee Benefits growth strategy, represents approximately $500 million in premium, and is expected to close in the fourth quarter, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ “This acquisition reinforces The Hartford’s leadership in employee benefits and small business,” said The Hartford’s Chairman and CEO Christopher Swift. “Small and midsize employers represent a strategic grow...

New capability reduces errors, reconciliation time, and risk for teams calculating leave pay AbsenceSoft , a leading provider of leave and accommodations management SaaS solutions, announced Payroll Calculations, a platform module that connects leave administrators and payroll teams by bringing pay calculations into the same system used to manage employee leave. A single employee’s leave can trigger three, four, or five overlapping policies at once, each with a different pay percentage, salary cap, and eligibility window. Yet many HRIS platforms don’t handle these calculations, leaving organizations to rely on spreadsheets, manual handoffs, and institutional knowledge. Nationally, many HR teams continue to manage leave-related compliance manually with spreadsheets, according to AbsenceSoft’s 2026 State of Leave and Accommodations Report. Reliance on manual processes not only creates compliance exposure from overpayments or underpayments but a miscalculated or delayed...

Professional services organizations, such as consulting firms, technology services companies, tax and audit firms, have always competed on the quality of their thinking. That calculus is shifting. In other industries like manufacturing or hospitality, AI automates tasks that support the product. In professional services, AI is encroaching on the product itself: the expertise, the analysis, the recommendations that clients pay for. That’s what makes the human skills question so pressing for this industry specifically. The World Economic Forum’s 2025 Future of Jobs Report   estimates that 39% of existing skills will be transformed or outdated by 2030, with AI leading the change. Services organizations feel that sooner and more acutely than most. HR can’t slow that down. But HR can shape who’s ready for it. The question I keep returning to in my own role is what we need to deliberately build in people, now, so that our organizations grow stronger as AI absorbs mo...

With Microsoft 365 as its first ecosystem, WISE brings insights, guidance, and actions into the tools businesses already use WISE extends Paychex’s workforce intelligence beyond HCM software into collaboration and productivity tools Microsoft 365 is the first ecosystem in Paychex’s broader channel expansion strategy, with WISE now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams The platform is designed to help Paychex and its partners expand HCM capabilities across digital workflows Paychex , a leading provider of expert-enabled HR, payroll, and benefits, announced that WISE (Workforce Intelligence Strengthened by Expertise), the company’s AI-powered intelligence engine, is now available within Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams, expanding the company’s broader channel-agnostic ecosystem strategy. WISE is designed to bring trusted workforce insights, guidance, and actions directly into the tools businesses and employees already use every day. Built to operate across Paychex’s HC...

As the Global Exchange for Work, Multiplier eliminates hidden FX markups, surcharges, and surprise onboarding fees that often plague today’s global employers Multiplier , the Global Exchange for Work, announced the public unveiling of its transparent pricing model for Employer of Record (EOR) services. By publishing its complete pricing structure directly on its website, Multiplier furthers itself as a category leader by offering buyers complete cost predictability. For years, the EOR industry has operated under an opaque status quo where quoted headline rates quickly balloon due to unmentioned compliance surcharges, unexpected onboarding and termination fees. This lack of transparency leaves finance leaders, HR ops teams, and founders left with sticker shock and unable to accurately forecast global hiring bills, stalling critical cross-border growth. Multiplier is addressing this category-wide problem directly by putting real, structured pricing out in the open. Simplifying th...