AI News Digest, July 2: India’s Tech Services Size the Agentic AI Prize
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…
EOR & Compliance Digest, July 1: Australia Overhauls Parental Leave, Super, and Wages in One Day
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…
AI News Deep Dive, July 1: The Price of Running an AI Agent Just Dropped, and HR Should Care More Than Engineering
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…
EOR & Compliance Digest, June 30: India Holds PF Ceiling as a July 1 Wage Wave Hits
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
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
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…
AI News Digest, June 29: India’s Sovereign AI War Chest Just Got Bigger
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
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…
AI News Digest, June 28: AI Filmmaking Tools and the Trust Problem
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…
EOR & Compliance Digest, June 27: California Healthcare Minimum Wage Hits $25, France and Singapore Move Too
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…
AI News Digest, June 27: The AI Money Splits in Two Directions
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…
EOR & Compliance Digest, June 26: UK Criminal Liability for Senior Managers Goes Live
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,…
AI News Digest, June 26: The Workforce Data Cutting Against the AI Job Panic
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…
EOR & Compliance Digest, June 25: Pay Transparency and Salary History Rules Land Worldwide
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.…
EOR & Compliance Digest, June 24: The July 1 Cliff Hits Four Countries at Once
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
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
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…
AI News Digest, June 21: The G7 Writes AI Safety Rules Nobody Has to Follow
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
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…
AI News Digest, June 19: Adoption Is Loud, Trust Is Quiet
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…