Here is the number that matters this week. The price of running a near-frontier AI model just fell. It is now $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million…
July 1 resets the compliance clock in half the countries you hire in. Before it does, India locked one number in place. The India EPFO wage ceiling stays at Rs…
AI News Digest, June 30: The $206 Billion Bet on Agents That Still Flunk the Job Here is the tension this week. AI agent software spending is about to jump…
EOR & Compliance Digest, June 29: July 1 Wage Rises Hit Australia, the US and the Netherlands July 1 is a hard deadline this year, not a soft one. The…
India foundation model funding just crossed a line that matters. A homegrown lab raised a war chest big enough to train a frontier model. And most of the money came…
EOR & Compliance Digest, June 28: Singapore CPF Platform Workers, EU Pay Gaps, and a Big July 1 If you pay anyone through a gig platform in Singapore, this one…
Editor's Note This week, AI tools kept showing up in places people assumed were off-limits. A studio known for hand-made cinema took money to build AI filmmaking tools. India scrambled…
If you employ anyone in California, France, or Singapore, July 1 is the date to circle. The California healthcare minimum wage steps up again. France just reset the salary floors…
The AI money moved in two directions this week, and the gap tells you something. On one side, private inference compute funding hit a record, as a single platform raised…
UK Senior Manager Liability Goes Live June 29 If you run a distributed team with anyone in Britain, this week matters. UK senior manager liability becomes real on June 29,…
The Workforce Data Cutting Against the AI Job Panic All week the headlines read like a countdown to mass unemployment. One enterprise software giant confirmed 21,000 job cuts and pinned…
Pay transparency stopped being a coastal experiment this month. On July 1, the Virginia salary history ban takes effect. At the same time, the EU's pay transparency deadline has passed.…
Four countries just lined up the same deadline. If you hire across the UK, the US, Singapore, or Australia, July 1 is not a normal Wednesday. In Britain, the new…
AI News Deep Dive, June 24: AI Job Cut Disclosures Go on the Record For three years, executives blamed layoffs on "macro headwinds" and "efficiency." This week the language changed.…
EOR & Compliance Digest, June 21: Australia's Payday Super Deadline Lands Two compliance clocks are running down this fortnight, and both reset how you run a distributed team. The biggest…
Governments and AI labs spent the week trying to agree on rules nobody is legally bound to follow. At the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, heads of state shared a…
EOR & Compliance Digest, June 19: UK Guaranteed Hours Contracts Move From Paper to Deadline If you employ anyone in Britain on flexible shifts, this week matters. The UK government…
Every chart this week pointed up. SHRM told a room of 20,000 HR pros in Orlando that 92% of CHROs want deeper AI. Investors handed $60 billion to a single…
EOR & Compliance Digest, June 17: Germany's Active Pension Goes Tax-Free as US Overtime Rolls Back If you run payroll in Germany, the rules for older workers just changed. The…
Microsoft just turned an experiment into a billing line item. On June 16 it moved Copilot Cowork, its agent for long-running, multi-tool work, to worldwide general availability after a three-month…