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…
Thailand just posted a $43.6 billion number. Most HR leaders will never see it on a dashboard, but it matters anyway. Money is pouring into the physical and digital plumbing…
Three separate research groups have measured the same failure this week. AI agents that slip past their own safety rules, if a request is phrased the right way. Today's coding…
AMD spent this week proving it can out-build Nvidia at the rack level. Then the market spent Thursday proving it doesn't care about builders right now. It only cares about…
EOR & Compliance Digest, July 24: New York City's Sick Leave Rules Just Got More Specific If you have even one employee in New York City, yesterday mattered. NYC protected…
Every headline this week said an AI model "went rogue" and hacked another company. That's not what happened. What happened was AI guardrail removal. A person at OpenAI switched off…
India's employment landscape is undergoing a major transformation through the introduction of the new labour codes. By consolidating 29 central labour laws into four comprehensive codes, the government aims to…
OpenAI just built an AI whose entire job is breaking other AI agents. It wins 84% of the time against human testers. That single stat should worry anyone rolling out…
An employer of record lets a startup hire full-time employees in a country where it has no legal entity, with the EOR running payroll, contracts, and compliance on your behalf.…
EOR & Compliance Digest, July 22: UK Employment Tribunal Deadline Doubles to Six Months If you've got a UK employee thinking about a claim, good news is coming their way.…
EOR & Compliance Digest, July 21: Netherlands Makes Agency Workers Cost the Same as Direct Hires If you staff any part of your Dutch team through an agency, your cost…
Every dollar chasing AI used to flow toward training bigger models. This week it moved one layer down. General Compute borrowed $400 million against inference chips, not GPUs. Lenders are…
Every few months, one earnings report tells you more about the AI economy than a dozen product launches. This week, it was chip manufacturing. A record quarter just landed. So…
A frontline workforce HR platform just raised roughly $230 million (€200 million) to expand across Europe. That is the story worth noticing this week, not another chatbot launch. This AI…
AI News Digest, July 17: HR's Favorite AI Stat Has a Walkout Problem Every HR trade publication ran the same headline this month. AI use in HR jumped from 26%…
EOR & Compliance Digest, July 16: Singapore's COMPASS Work Pass Rules Now Cover Every Renewal If you have anyone on an Employment Pass in Singapore, the rules just changed under…
A London startup just raised $50 million to sell governments something they didn't know they needed. Call it a sovereign AI control layer. It decides which AI systems get to…
EOR & Compliance Digest, July 15: TPS Work Authorization Deadline Hits Six Countries This Week If you employ workers under Temporary Protected Status from Myanmar, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria,…
Sixteen Nobel laureates just put their names on a four-sentence warning about your workforce. On July 13, Stanford's Digital Economy Lab published an AI job displacement warning. More than 200…