Ashby buys Talent Llama

- Recruiting platform Ashby acquired AI-interview startup Talent Llama to embed structured, AI-driven interviews into its unified hiring product. - Ashby said it will unveil an "AI Interviewer" at its Ashby One conference this week; TestGorilla finds 59% of organisations made a "bad AI hire" in the past year. - The deal lands while Phenom reports 70%+ of companies fail to engage applicants immediately, highlighting risks of automating interviews without better evaluation. (prnewswire.com) (businesswire.com) (pharmiweb.com)