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42 stories across 18 beats, Oct 12–18, 2026 — each wired to the companies it names.
Metaview has expanded its two-way integration with Workday, enabling enterprise and Fortune 500 employers to run AI recruiting agents directly inside their existing Workday environ
Autopilot agents, Sana as the new Workday Home and inside Claude, Copilot, Teams and Slack, a headless agent platform, Decision and Work Intelligence, Candidate Profile and an Anth
SAP has agreed to acquire TechWolf, an AI-powered skills and work intelligence platform, according to SAP Community. The move is positioned as a significant expansion of AI-driven
SAP SuccessFactors has announced its second-half 2026 product release, positioning the update around the concept of 'Autonomous HCM.' Central to the release are Joule Assistants —
The HR consulting and HRIS group buys an AI-compliance start-up as the EU AI Act classes recruitment and employee-management AI as high-risk.
At Workday Rising, Dow Chemical reportedly flagged Workday's Flex Credits pricing model as a meaningful obstacle to scaling the platform's agentic AI capabilities across the enterp
Accenture has reportedly launched an engineering programme aimed at embedding agentic AI capabilities into the Workday platform. The move signals a push to bring autonomous, agent-
Skillsoft research finds that more than half of managers acknowledge assigning work that exceeds their employees' current skill levels — with the company warning that the resulting
SAP's 2H 2026 update to the SuccessFactors app for Microsoft Teams adds leave deduction transparency, a redesigned continuous feedback flow, admin-controlled calendar-sync consent,
Josh Bersin and Workday have announced a formal research partnership, unveiled at Workday Rising, focused on the 'HR 2030' framework — Bersin's concept for an agentic AI-powered HR
Upwork has announced it will release its third-quarter 2026 financial results on November 2, 2026, after market close. No financial data or platform developments were disclosed in
Duvo has reportedly closed a $32M Series A round, according to FinSMEs. No product description, sector classification, or investor details were disclosed in the source report.
Scuba, a data analytics company, has reportedly raised $34M in total funding, according to FinSMEs. No details on round type, investors, or intended use of capital have been disclo
Accenture and Workday are joining forces to deploy AI agents inside enterprise workplaces, with insights from those live rollouts feeding directly back into Workday's product roadm
Deel has partnered with AI-native ERP vendor DualEntry to bridge global HR and financial operations. According to Business Wire, the integration combines Deel's cross-border payrol
Workday is reportedly expanding its agentic AI capabilities designed for HR teams, according to TechTarget. The move signals a deeper push by the HCM giant to deploy autonomous age
Workday has launched 'Decision Intelligence,' a new capability within its HCM and finance platform reportedly designed to help HR and finance teams evaluate workforce and financial
SAP's Community HCM blog has published a configuration guide detailing how HR and compliance teams can set up Form I-9 task delegation inside SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding — allowi
From AI fraud in hiring to a California pay-data penalty that could hit seven figures, today's news keeps circling back to one question: who do you actually trust?
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1237 on September 30, 2026, raising the maximum penalty for a repeated failure to file a required pay data report from $200 to $1,000 per
Workday announced at its Rising 2026 conference that Sana — its agentic experience and orchestration engine — will operate inside Claude, Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise, Microsof
Workday announced Workday Candidate Profile at its Rising 2026 conference, a feature that lets job seekers save their professional information once and reuse it across every applic
At Workday Rising 2026 in Las Vegas, Workday announced its Trusted Agent Platform has gone headless, allowing customers to build, deploy, and govern AI agents across HR and finance
Agentic AI is no longer a roadmap promise inside enterprise HCM — it's shipping, and Workday's orbit is the proving ground.
SAP Community's HCM blog has published a practical guide to the standard pre-built product connectors that come bundled with the SmartRecruiters–SAP SuccessFactors integration. The
Business Up North has published a listicle outlining five alternatives to Deel for employer-of-record (EOR) services. The piece is aimed at companies evaluating global hiring platf
From payroll giants to HRIS upstarts, autonomous agents are moving from recruiting into the messier territory of HR compliance and cross-functional operations.
SAP SuccessFactors is set to deliver eight enhancements to the rehire workflow within its Onboarding module as part of the 2H 2026 release cycle. According to the SAP Community HCM
SAP Community's HCM blog has published a step-by-step configuration guide for the On-Demand E-Verify Status Change Report inside SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding, giving partners and
The Hartford has closed its acquisition of Equitable's employee benefits business, picking up approximately $500 million in non-medical benefits premium and Equitable's employee be
Announced at Workday Rising 2026: sign in with an email and a one-time code, pre-fill about 80% of standard fields and apply about 40% faster, Workday says. Generally available to
AI recruiting platform Humanly has acquired CareerArc, a recruitment marketing and outplacement technology company, according to GeekWire. The deal is designed to bring candidate a
Nucleus Research has released its 2026 Value Matrix for standalone talent acquisition technology, offering HR-tech buyers a comparative view of vendors across the recruiting and AT
Workday has announced a suite of autonomous 'autopilot' AI agents for hiring, payroll, and accounting — marking a strategic pivot from prompt-driven AI assistants to proactive agen
HireClix, a career site services firm, has joined the Workday Partner Program and listed its career site optimization offerings on the Workday Marketplace, giving Workday customers
SAP Community's HCM blog has released Episode 2 of a podcast series focused on helping SAP SuccessFactors customers navigate the transition to SmartRecruiters. The episode and acco
Eightfold AI's Chief Product Officer Sachit Kamat sat down with Pulse 2.0 to discuss the company's strategic emphasis on agentic AI and talent intelligence — offering a window into
A practitioner guide published on SAP Community's HCM blog urges HR teams moving from SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting to SmartRecruiters to approach the transition as a net-new platf
Harmonic Security has reportedly raised a $50M Series B focused on data security for SaaS environments. No HR technology or workforce management angle is evident from available det
Accenture has launched a Forward Deployed Engineering Program with Workday to embed agentic AI capabilities directly into HCM workflows, according to Business Wire. The initiative
HRchitect has released a practitioner-focused implementation guide for Dayforce HCM, covering six phases from defining organizational goals through post-go-live expectations. The g
UKG has articulated a strategic vision for responsibly scaling AI across frontline workforce operations, according to Business Wire. The company is positioning its platform as a pr
The week's HR-tech moves — funding, launches, and the vendors behind them — every week.
