AI News, August 20: Lab Validated AI Claims Are Rarer Than the Press Releases
Editor's note Almost every AI number you read this week came from the company selling the thing. That is normal, and it is not fraud. But it does mean the…
Editor's note Almost every AI number you read this week came from the company selling the thing. That is normal, and it is not fraud. But it does mean the…
An AI inference price hike is coming from the one company nobody expected to raise prices. DeepSeek is the Chinese lab that triggered the global collapse in token costs. Last…
EOR & Compliance Digest, August 21: Singapore Stops Treating Salary as the Only Number That Counts Every work visa regime on earth runs on one number: fixed monthly salary. Singapore…
Expanding a business across international borders can give it access to broader talent pools and new sales markets that may not have been reachable before. Managing human capital across multiple…
The Malaysia labour market test just widened, and it caught the exact salary band most startups use to hire senior engineers in Kuala Lumpur. Meanwhile, Ireland's grace period for expired…
EOR & Compliance Digest, August 6: H-1B Fee Vacated Again as Canada and Australia Reset Employer Costs Three countries, three different cost signals this week. In the United States, the…
A paper landed on arXiv Monday that should change how you read every AI vendor deck. It found that between 8.2% and 44.1% of the answers frontier models got "right"…
EOR & Compliance Digest, August 3: Saudi Arabia Turns Every Salary Into a Court Order A late payroll run in Riyadh used to mean an awkward email. This month it…
Three stories landed this week that don't look connected at first. A construction-compliance startup raised $15 million. A card network cut thousands of jobs. And a chemistry dataset quietly fixed…
EOR & Compliance Digest, August 2: UK Trade Union Balloting Rules Go Digital If you run a UK team with union representation, the rules for calling a strike are about…
EOR & Compliance Digest, August 1: Singapore Raises Its Re-Employment Age to 69 If you employ anyone in Singapore, your workforce planning just changed. The Singapore re-employment age rises from…
EOR & Compliance Digest, July 31: UK's Immigration Rules Overhaul Hits Visa Sponsors If you sponsor visas in the UK, this week's news changes your compliance calendar. The UK immigration…
EOR & Compliance Digest, July 31: UK's Immigration Rules Overhaul Hits Visa Sponsors If you sponsor visas in the UK, this week's news changes your compliance calendar. The UK immigration…
AI News Digest, July 30: South Korea Just Showed What Real AI Compliance Looks Like South Korea flipped a switch this week that most companies hiring globally haven't noticed yet.…
EOR & Compliance Digest, July 30: DHS Ends "Duration of Status" for Foreign Students and Scholars The DHS duration of status rule change is the story every startup with F-1…
EOR & Compliance Digest, July 29: The H-1B Cap Reached for FY2027, Now What? The H-1B cap reached its full 85,000 slots for fiscal year 2027 on July 17. USCIS…
AI News Digest, July 29: The AI-Discovered Cryptographic Flaw That Should Worry Your Security Team Claude just found an AI-discovered cryptographic flaw in a scheme the U.S. government's own standards…
Sixteen months. That is how much breathing room European employers just got on AI hiring tools. It landed while most HR teams were still bracing for an August 2 deadline.…
Three numbers dropped this week. None of them are about a new model. $250 billion. $1.65 trillion. 466%. Together they describe circular AI financing. Chipmakers are guaranteeing debt for the…
EOR & Compliance Digest, July 27: EEOC Moves to Scrap EEO-1 Race and Sex Reporting Four separate compliance clocks started ticking this week. In Washington, the EEOC voted to begin…