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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

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Agentic AI dominated today's HR-tech headlines, with Accenture launching a Workday engineering programme for the technology, Metaview expanding its Workday integration to bring agentic recruiting to Fortune 500 employers, and TalentNeuron adding agentic capabilities to its Synapse platform for boardroom-ready workforce analysis. Fresh funding continued to flow into the space, with Scuba closing $34M in total funding and Duvo securing $32M in a Series A, while Humanly's acquisition of CareerArc signals growing appetite for combining recruitment marketing with AI-driven hiring. On the candidate experience front, new research highlighted a stark disconnect, finding job seekers are eight times more likely than talent leaders to rate an interview process poorly.

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UK regulationHR Grapevine· 12:15 AM PDT

IR35 invoice | Cabinet Office on the hook for £38.5m bill to HMRC over IR35 non-compliance

The UK Cabinet Office faces a £38.5 million tax bill plus up to £8.9 million in penalties from HMRC after the government department reportedly failed to take reasonable care in applying IR35 off-payroll working rules dating back to 2017, according to HR Grapevine. The case is a high-profile reminder for HR and procurement leaders of the compliance stakes around contractor classification under IR35.