Poland B2B Reclassification Powers Take Effect July 8 If you engage contractors in Europe, the rules changed this week. Poland B2B reclassification powers go live on July 8. They let…
AI News Digest, July 7: Open-Weight AI Just Pulled In $800 Million Open weight model funding just had its loudest week of the year. A cloud built for open-source models…
If you run payroll anywhere near India, this week matters. The India EPF Scheme 2026 came into force on July 1. Specifically, it changes what employers file, when they file…
AI News Digest, July 6: The AI Job Cuts Surge Just Set a Record The AI job cuts surge is no longer a talking point. It is now the single…
If you run payroll across borders, this week hands you two hard deadlines and one quiet enforcement shift. In the United States, new overtime tip payroll reporting rules become mandatory…
Editor's Note Two threads ran through this week's AI news, and they pull in opposite directions. On one side, money. Video intelligence funding just hit a new high. Korea lined…
The theme this week is teeth. Rules that governments announced months ago now carry real penalties, and the deadlines land in July. The UAE Emiratisation wage rule is the sharpest…
Two years ago, "AI welfare research" sounded like a punchline. This week it reads like a job posting. The Washington Post reported that Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta each hired…
If you run delivery, ride-share, or any app-based work in Canada, the rules changed under your feet. Ontario gig worker rights are now fully enforceable, and they apply whether or…
Everyone spent this week cheering the money. A neocloud doubled its valuation to $8.3 billion in 16 months. Blackstone lined up $30 billion for data centers. Microsoft dropped $2.5 billion…
Four jurisdictions moved the goalposts on hiring this quarter. The Singapore Workplace Fairness Act is the one that changes how you write a job ad. Meanwhile, the UK locked in…
Three stories this week point at the same gap. The money and the mandate for agentic AI are arriving faster than the readiness to use it. India's tech services AI…
July 1 is Australia's compliance new year, and this one is heavy. Australia parental leave super is now real. The government will pay 12% super on top of Parental Leave…
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…