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AI-powered hiring and workforce tools dominated today's headlines, with Xobin launching an AI Interview Auditor for greater transparency in automated hiring, SK AX debuting a tool capable of assessing 1,800 applicants in six hours, and Intellihr raising $303K to scale its AI recruiting platform. On the investment front, Fronted secured €1.7M to streamline global hiring and expansion, while Dayforce extended its agentic HCM platform to public sector clients through Carahsoft and Chegg Skills partnered with PowerTrain to deliver AI and workforce training across government and defense. Workforce equity and compliance also drew attention, with an equality watchdog calling for a ban on salary history questions and scrutiny mounting over unpaid pre-shift payroll risks.
KineDB has raised €850K to rebuild database infrastructure as AI changes how software gets built. The round is a developer-tooling story with no link to HR software, recruiting, or workforce management.
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Read the full storyEntourage has raised €100M for its second fund, aimed at AI, robotics and deeptech startups in Europe.
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Read the full storyRavical has raised $17M, according to Tech.eu, with a pitch to let accounting firms grow without adding headcount at the same pace. The round is a signal for HR and workforce buyers in professional services who are weighing AI tools as a substitute for hiring.
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Read the full storyDayforce is widening access to its agentic HCM platform for public sector employers through reseller Carahsoft. For HR buyers in government, this offers a new procurement route to an AI-enabled HCM suite.
Read the full storyNCS has launched an AI Mission Centre and plans to build a team of more than 300 forward-deployed engineers over the next two years. For HR leaders, the move signals how IT services firms are staffing up for AI delivery, though the item does not describe any HR software or workforce tool.
HR-tech vendor Phenom has launched a Women in Tech Leadership Council aimed at building AI readiness among women in the workforce.
Read the full storyChegg Skills, the workforce learning arm of Chegg, will offer its catalog of more than 200 courses to government and defense agencies through PowerTrain's Callisto learning platform. For HR and L&D buyers in the public sector, it is a new distribution channel for AI and cybersecurity training.
A SAP Community post explains how to re-trigger job approvals in SAP SmartRecruiters after a rejection, using the Approvals API and webhook events. It matters for recruiting ops teams that hit the platform's limit of re-triggering approvals only on protected field changes.
Read the full storyA Pennsylvania federal court let a former nurse's FLSA suit over unpaid preshift scrub-changing time proceed against Chestnut Hill Hospital, finding a factual dispute over whether clock-in caps and quarter-hour rounding excluded required work from pay. The ruling also lets an FMLA claim proceed over attendance points that an automated timekeeping system assigned for protected leave.
Fronted has raised €1.7M to help companies hire and expand internationally, a move that matters to HR leaders weighing global employment options.
Read the full storyThe UK Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has called for a ban on employers asking candidates about their past salary or pay expectations. The watchdog argues the practice carries existing pay gaps into new roles, which matters for recruiting teams that use pay questions in applicant screening.
Hungarian startup Intellihr has raised $303K to scale its AI recruiting platform, according to Dealroom. The round is small, but it adds another European AI-hiring vendor to the funding picture for HR buyers tracking the space.
Read the full storyXobin has launched an AI Interview Auditor aimed at making AI-led hiring more trustworthy, a tool HR buyers running automated interviews may want to evaluate. The announcement, carried via PR Newswire, does not include pricing, availability, or independent validation.
SK AX has launched an AI hiring tool that reportedly assesses 1,800 applicants in six hours, according to the Chosunbiz headline. The launch is a concrete AI-recruiting product move from a named Korean company, relevant to talent-acquisition buyers tracking AI screening throughput.
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