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Seasoned People Leader to Drive Lattice’s Next Chapter in People + AI  Lattice , the leading HR platform where people and AI succeed together, announced the promotion of Sophie Hurcombe to Chief People and Operations Officer from her previous role as SVP, People. In her expanded role, Hurcombe will lead the company’s AI transformation and company operations, overseeing the People, Business Systems, and IT teams. With AI’s increasing impact on talent strategy and organizational design, people strategy is increasingly connected to business outcomes. Sophie’s promotion demonstrates People leaders’ critical role in building a future where people thrive with AI. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI Sarah Franklin, CEO of Lattice, comments: “Sophie has demonstrated strategic vision, operational excellence, and the ability to connect people strategy directly to business o...

Karbon takes its most significant step yet toward becoming the AI operating system for accounting firms with numerous new AI capabilities. Karbon, the leading AI-powered accounting practice management software, introduced Kai, an AI coworker built directly into the platform where a firm’s client history, workflows, and communications already live. The announcements were made at Karbon Next 2026, where more than 200 customers and firm leaders gathered in San Diego, signaling a fundamental shift in how AI integrates into the daily life of an accounting firm. Chief Product Officer Sara Goepel unveiled the new capabilities during her keynote address, along with many other soon-to-launch updates to the Karbon practice management platform. “AI multiplies when it’s inside the tools you already use,” said Mary Delaney, CEO at Karbon. “Kai is built on the client relationships, workflows, and practice knowledge your firm already manages in Karbon, including context drawn from over ...

Agentic Work Management solves the AI productivity gap; Organizations can run critical work with humans and agents on the same plan, with the same context, under the same governance Asana announces next generation AI Teammates purpose-built for industries and Asana Dash, an AI Chief of Staff for every user that knows your individual goals, priorities and what needs your attention New apps coming soon: Asana Service Management for IT, Command by Asana for Builders, and Asana Client Management for Professional Services Asana, Inc.  unveiled the operating system for human-agent teams: a new product suite designed to help organizations run critical work with humans and AI agents working from the same plan, with the same context, under the same governance — unlocking enterprise productivity at scale. Announced at the Work Innovation Summit in London, the launch marks Asana’s most significant product evolution to date. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, C...

Multi-agent teams across every AI provider, governed by one Passport. Built to become the neutral marketplace where agents transact across sectors. agnt8x , the AI agent recruitment and workforce management platform built by EightX Labs Ltd, today opened to public access at agnt8x.ai. It lets enterprises find, hire, onboard, manage and orchestrate AI agents the way they manage human teams, across all major LLM providers, under one Passport, one audit trail and one contract. Every company will have an AI workforce, and right now there is no system to run it.” — John Shipman Every major AI lab has launched agents in the past twelve months. The result is fragmentation reaching every enterprise: agents from three or four providers running with no coherent recruitment, onboarding, audit or management path across them. There is no Workday for AI agents. agnt8x is the neutral layer above the providers. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of ...

According to recent media reports, some companies that deployed AI to replace job roles like customer service have been on a rehiring spree after realizing chatbot technologies came up short. In the HR tech space, there’s been less focus on using AI to replace people and more focus on shifting from experimenting with AI to delivering demonstrable returns on investment in the technology.  That’s the way it should be. AI is an exciting technology that can reduce workloads and drive efficiency, but human oversight remains vitally important. This is especially true in the HR sector, as even a 1% error can lead to compliance risk. As even its most passionate adopters know, AI isn’t perfect, and there is no room for error in handling highly sensitive employee health and compensation data. HR is emerging as a powerful proving ground for AI applications, due to the sensitivity and quantity of data and the need for 100% accuracy. Here’s a look at some of the challenges HR tech leaders face wh...

New Findings Highlight Discrepancies in Resume Assessments by Different AI Models. AI screens job applications unfairly, depending on which model wrote the resume. A new study by  i10X  Research reveals a critical flaw in AI-based hiring: the same candidate, with identical qualifications, receives up to 42 percentage points fewer hire recommendations, solely depending on which AI tool wrote the resume. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI The analysis is based on 1,576 valid data points across 100 candidate profiles, evaluated by four leading AI systems: GPT-5.4, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro, and Grok 4.3. Key findings: Claude is the strictest evaluator and shows the largest self-bias, hiring only 42% of GPT-written resumes, but 84% of its own. GPT penalizes its own writing style by 15 percentage points. Gemini-written resumes score highest across all evaluators, averaging a 94.5% hire rate. On o...