Every week's briefing, archived in full. The current edition always lives at /briefing/.
Workday's headless agent platform · the skills race moves from jobs to tasks as Workday launches Work Intelligence and SAP buys TechWolf · SAP SuccessFactors' AI screening and interview agents · recruiters find candidates faster but trust them less · Colorado's rulemaking deadline · UK, Ireland and APAC rules on workplace monitoring.
Workday's "Autopilot" agents and the C1.ai deal · California signs SB 947, AB 1883 and SB 951 · Connecticut's AI law goes live · September hiring nearly stalls as AI falls to fifth among layoff reasons · Gartner: only 24% of leadership teams agree who owns AI agents · Q3 HR tech funding rebounds to $346M, with HiBob nearly half.
DHS proposes ending the 60-day H-1B grace period · Salesforce names its HR agent "Paige" · SAP promises 400 agents while 3% of firms say they're ready · ManpowerGroup: AI hasn't moved time-to-hire · Gallagher: 51% of HR teams use AI only in a limited way · AI notetakers in interviews become a compliance question.
Three California workplace-AI bills (SB 947, AB 1883, SB 951) wait on Newsom · AI drops to fourth on the August layoff list but remains 2026's #1 reason · Salesforce leads $166M into HiBob at $3.2B · tech employment up 86,000, mostly outside tech · "epistemic de-skilling" of AI-dependent managers · who owns the risk when the agent makes a mistake.
California passes the "No Robo Bosses Act" (SB 947) — Newsom has until September 30 · Connecticut's CART Act switches on October 1 · NY Fed: AI use at 61% of service firms, only 4% AI layoffs · EY's $100M bonus pool for human skills · Ema's HR/IT/Finance agent hub and UKG's 12,000 internal agents · IDC/SAS: trustworthy AI 15× more likely to pay off.
Digital Omnibus is law — high-risk HR AI deferred to December 2, 2027 · Article 50 transparency still lands August 2 · agentic AI gets its own EU legal category · Monday.com's 20% cut and the FT's AI-layoff discount · Ramp–Revelio: heaviest AI adopters grew headcount 10.2% · Squirro Agent Catalog.
EU AI Act's August 2 high-risk deadline and the proposed Digital Omnibus deferral · AI cited in 56% of 2026 layoff events · Workday–Sana $1.1B · Korn Ferry's judgment premium · Netchex Mesh · entry-level employment down ~13% in AI-exposed jobs.