AI News Digest, May 27: What the 99% AI-Driven Layoffs Forecast Actually Means One number is everywhere this week. 99% of CEOs expect AI to drive layoffs within two years.…
The short version: Hiring in India through an Employer of Record does not automatically create a permanent establishment (PE), and it does not automatically shield you from one. PE risk…
India just rewrote how more than 30 crore workers reach their retirement savings. The EPFO withdrawal reform lets staff pull provident fund money through UPI and ATMs, with no employer…
Three stories this week point at the same problem from different angles. Investors just put $50M behind a startup whose entire pitch is getting companies out of stalled AI trials.…
Three compliance deadlines are about to bite for anyone hiring across the Gulf, Britain, and Canada this quarter. First, the UAE Emirati minimum wage rule now carries a hard June…
Three stories this week put the same question on the table: who actually sets the rules for AI at work? In Washington, the White House shelved its AI safety executive…
Two years ago, the Colorado AI Act was the boldest employment-tech law in America. This week it became a cautionary tale. On May 14, Governor Jared Polis signed a rewrite.…
Three product announcements landed within four days of Google I/O, and together they point in one direction. The AI creative studio is no longer a separate app you open. Instead,…
The Virginia pay transparency law is the story global employers cannot ignore this week. Governor Abigail Spanberger signed it in late April 2026, and it takes effect July 1, 2026.…
While Google flooded its developer conference with new models this week, the more telling AI story came out of Singapore. The country is turning a real, lived-in neighborhood into a…
If you run a distributed team, the Maine workplace surveillance law is the update to read first this week. Maine just became the fourth Northeastern state to police how employers…
Everyone spent this week cheering an AI that disproved an 80-year-old math conjecture and a compute deal worth more than $40 billion. Meanwhile, the news that actually lands on your…
Gulf employers got the clearest deadline of the year this week. The Saudi unified employment contract moves into its final phase on August 6. By then, every open-ended worker in…
Three moves this week point the same direction. The era of one general model for everything is closing. The money and the talent are flowing into vertical AI now. The…
EOR & Compliance Digest, May 20: Singapore Retirement Age Jumps as the EU Pay Clock Hits 18 Days If you employ anyone in Asia or Europe, this week brings two…
Most AI agent demos show the happy path. A new benchmark went looking for the opposite. Researchers built a set of tool-use tasks with shortcuts baked in. Then they watched…
Global hiring has become significantly easier over the past few years, but choosing the right Employer of Record (EOR) platform is still a major decision. Two companies that dominate the…
India's labour codes finally moved from theory to practice. Last week the Ministry of Labour and Employment notified two of the four central rule sets. These include the India industrial…
The week's biggest AI story is not a model release. It is an acquisition. Anthropic confirmed on Monday that it is buying Stainless. Stainless is a four-year-old NYC startup. Specifically,…
Think of payroll as the heartbeat of an organisation. Just as a healthy heart is vital for overall well-being, a well-managed payroll system is essential for maintaining the vitality and…