HR Tech

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Editorial summary

• SAP is buying Belgian skills-intelligence company TechWolf to ground its SuccessFactors HR agents in data about the work employees actually do, a sign that skills and work data are becoming the strategic layer under HR AI.
• SAP made its Autonomous Enterprise architecture generally available, with Joule Work and Joule Desktop and consumption-based AI pricing, moving agents from in-app assistants to a cross-system work layer.
• Workday's latest workforce data points to jobs being reshaped rather than cut, with demand shifting from basic to advanced AI skills and a widening gap in employer skills support.
• It was a quiet period outside SAP Connect: no other in-period story met the quality threshold, so the feed is deliberately short.

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THE NEW STACK – M&A · Europe, Global · Companies: SAP, SAP SuccessFactors, TechWolf, Workday

• #1 SAP acquires TechWolf to feed more context into its HR agents

SILICONANGLE – Vendor Strategy · Global, Europe · Companies: SAP, SAP SuccessFactors

• #2 SAP expands Joule into an agentic work layer as Autonomous Enterprise goes live

WORKDAY – People Analytics · Global, USA · Companies: Workday

• #3 Workday Global Workforce Report: AI is rewriting jobs more than it is cutting them

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Editorial summary

• A quiet weekend period: only one story met the quality threshold, so the feed is deliberately short.
• Agentic recruiting keeps moving from pilots into mainstream products: LinkedIn reports more than 20,000 companies using its agentic hiring tools.
• Candidate fraud and identity verification are becoming a core design concern for AI-driven hiring platforms.
• Recruiting agents are expanding from sourcing into screening, scheduling and ATS integrations.

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ERE MEDIA – Recruiting · Global, USA, Europe · Companies: LinkedIn, Microsoft, Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters

• #1 LinkedIn's Hiring Assistant 2 Aims to "Just Be Smarter"

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Editorial summary

• Agentic recruiting continues to attract large venture rounds, with Metaview moving its autonomous recruiting coworker to general availability.
• Early-stage European HR tech funding is favouring AI agent layers that sit on top of existing HR systems rather than replace them.
• Even leading HCM vendors are restructuring: Workday's second layoff round of 2026 targets product and technology teams and lowers its near-term outlook.
• A quiet period for major vendor launches and regulation; no new EU AI Act developments surfaced beyond the already-adopted delay of high-risk obligations to December 2027.

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YAHOO FINANCE (PRESS RELEASE) – Investment · Europe, USA, Global · Companies: Metaview, Insight Partners, GV

• #1 Metaview Raises $60M Series C to Lead the Shift to Agentic Recruiting

HR TECH FEED – Vendor Strategy · USA, Global · Companies: Workday

• #2 Workday to cut 2.5% of workforce

TECH.EU – Investment · Europe · Companies: Ahron, Cusp Capital, Celonis

• #3 Ahron raises €2.2M to automate HR processes with AI

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Editorial summary

• A quiet 48-hour window: only two stories met the quality threshold and could be verified from accessible sources.
• Skills assessment and verification is attracting strategic buyers, with Pearson moving to acquire Workera.
• Agentic HR is increasingly delivered as an overlay on incumbent HCM platforms, with best-practice research embedded into agents that run inside SAP SuccessFactors and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

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PEARSON – M&A · Global, Europe · Companies: Pearson, Workera

• #1 Pearson Acquires Workera, a Pioneer in AI-Native Enterprise Assessment and Skills Verification

BUSINESS WIRE (GLOAT) – AI in HR · Global, Europe · Companies: Gloat, The Josh Bersin Company, SAP SuccessFactors, Microsoft

• #2 Gloat and The Josh Bersin Company Partner to Bring Galileo Inside Gloat AI Agents for Enterprise HR

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Editorial summary

• Microsoft escalated the battle for the enterprise AI 'front door' by relaunching Copilot around persistent, autonomous agents, a shift with direct implications for how HR service delivery and administrative work get automated.
• Legal entanglements among fast-growing global HR and payroll platforms continue to surface, with a federal court ruling keeping Deel's corporate-espionage dispute with Rippling alive and adding to vendor-risk considerations for enterprise buyers.
• New research continues to highlight a gap between how confident HR leaders are that they understand future skill needs and how confident they are that their workforces actually possess those skills.
• This was a comparatively quiet 72-hour period for HR Tech overall, spanning a weekend, with no major European-specific product launches, funding rounds or regulatory developments meeting the bar for inclusion.

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MICROSOFT – AI in HR · Global, Europe · Companies: Microsoft

• #1 Microsoft Relaunches Copilot Around Home, Code and Autopilot

THENEXTWEB – Vendor Strategy · USA, Global · Companies: Deel, Rippling

• #2 Judge Rejects Deel's Bid to Block Key Witness, Sends Counterclaims Against Rippling to Arbitration

UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX – Learning · USA

• #3 Survey Finds a Wide 'Skills Visibility Gap' Among US HR Leaders

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Editorial summary

• Major HCM vendors are pushing agentic AI further into benefits and payroll, historically two of the most fragmented and trust-sensitive HR domains.
• Employee trust remains a real adoption barrier: multiple new surveys this period show workers are uneasy about AI handling payroll and often don't understand why AI tools were introduced at all.
• Pay equity is emerging as a side effect of the AI skills race, with new hires commanding AI-related pay premiums that risk friction with existing staff.
• No major European-specific HR Tech news broke during this particular 48-hour window; European developments continue to be shaped by the EU AI Act's delayed high-risk compliance timeline rather than new events.

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WORKDAY – Employee Experience · USA, Global · Companies: Workday, DailyPay

• #1 Workday Launches Total Benefits, Unifying Health, Wealth and Wellbeing Support

HR DIVE – AI in HR · USA · Companies: PayrollOrg, UKG

• #2 Nearly Half of US Workers Uncomfortable with AI in Payroll, PayrollOrg Survey Finds

HR DIVE – AI in HR · Global, USA · Companies: Culture Amp

• #3 Most Employees Use AI at Work but Don't Understand Why, Culture Amp Finds

HR DIVE – People Analytics · USA, Global · Companies: Payscale

• #4 Payscale Research Warns of Pay-Equity 'Retention Time Bomb' Over AI Skills

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Editorial summary

• This run covers an unusually short 19-hour window, and no significant Europe-specific HR Tech developments were identified within it; all four stories originated from US vendors and research, though each has global product relevance.
• AI agents in recruiting and people analytics kept shifting from single-task features toward end-to-end, evidence-backed work products, with new agentic launches from Findem and Joveo.
• New industry survey data pointed to a widening trust gap in hiring, with employer-reported applicant fraud, job-seeker exposure to fake or 'ghost' postings, and continued candidate skepticism toward AI keeping employer AI adoption roughly flat year over year.
• Workforce-management vendors continued extending skills-based HR into frontline and deskless roles that core HCM systems, built primarily around office-worker data, have historically underserved.

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IHIRE – Recruiting · USA · Companies: iHire

• #1 iHire's 2026 State of Online Recruiting Report reveals a widening trust gap between employers and job seekers

FINDEM – People Analytics · USA, Global · Companies: Findem

• #2 Findem launches Studio, an AI agent platform that delivers finished people-intelligence work products

JOVEO – Recruiting · USA, Global · Companies: Joveo

• #3 Joveo unveils an agentic recruiting platform spanning the full hiring funnel

KAHUNA WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS – Workforce Management · USA, Global · Companies: Kahuna Workforce Solutions, Oracle, Workday, SAP, UKG

• #4 Kahuna Workforce Solutions launches Skills Aggregator to bring frontline workers into skills-based HR

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Editorial summary

• This is the first run of the feed, covering a quiet 48-hour weekend-to-Tuesday window with a limited but verifiable set of developments rather than a full news cycle.
• AI agents continued moving from demos into live recruiting workflows, with ZoomInfo launching an autonomous candidate-sourcing agent and European startup Spott raising fresh funding for its AI-native recruitment agency platform.
• New IBM research highlighted a widening gap between what CHROs say AI-era work requires (judgment, critical thinking) and what employees themselves prioritise, a tension HR Tech and L&D vendors will need to design around.
• Established HCM and workforce-management vendors kept broadening their platforms, from Dayforce's US federal compliance milestone to further bolt-on consolidation in vertical workforce-scheduling technology.

Sources used in this episode

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TECH.EU – Investment · Europe, Global · Companies: Spott, Balderton Capital

• #1 Spott raises $21M Series A to build an AI-native operating system for recruitment agencies

IBM – People Analytics · Global · Companies: IBM

• #2 IBM study finds CHROs and employees disagree on which AI-era skills matter most

ZOOMINFO – Recruiting · USA, Global · Companies: ZoomInfo

• #3 ZoomInfo launches Talent Autopilot, an autonomous AI recruiting agent

DAYFORCE – Vendor Strategy · USA · Companies: Dayforce

• #4 Dayforce enters FedRAMP Marketplace in US federal expansion push

ASCEND LEARNING – M&A · USA · Companies: Ascend Learning, M7 Health, StaffGarden, Laudio

• #5 Ascend Learning acquires AI workforce-scheduling platform M7 Health