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January 22, 2026 News

New Benchmark Reveals AI Agents Still Far From Replacing White-Collar Workers

A new benchmark called Apex-Agents tests leading AI models on real white-collar tasks from consulting, investment banking, and law, revealing that even the best models achieve only about 24% accuracy. The models struggle...

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Humans& Raises $480M to Build Foundation Model for AI-Powered Team Coordination

Humans&, a startup founded by former employees of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, has raised a $480 million seed round to develop a foundation model focused on social intelligence and team coordination...

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Google DeepMind Acquires Hume AI Leadership Team to Enhance Voice Emotion Recognition

Google DeepMind has hired the CEO and approximately seven engineers from voice AI startup Hume AI through a licensing agreement, aiming to improve Gemini's voice features with emotional intelligence capabilities. This "a...

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Claude AI Models Now Outperform Humans on Anthropic's Technical Hiring Tests

Anthropic's performance optimization team has been forced to repeatedly redesign their technical hiring test as newer Claude models have surpassed human performance. Claude Opus 4.5 now matches even the strongest human c...

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