China weighs export controls on its own AI models and chips, FT reports

China is considering tightening export controls on its home-grown artificial intelligence models and the chips that run them, according to the Financial Times, in a move that would push Beijing’s t [...]

Employer of record or entity: choose before someone chooses for you

Almost nobody plans how to employ people abroad. They solve one urgent hire, and three years later that improvised answer has become the company’s international employment structure. Fourteen contra [...]

How Coinspaid became one of fintech’s top remote-first employers

  Fintech is a sector known for speed and pressure. Employment is usually described in the language of momentum: rapid growth, market disruption, fast-paced decisions. However, this language has stop [...]

10 best ITGC tools and software for automated IT controls in 2026

Every SOX audit season, IT teams scramble to collect evidence across dozens of systems, validate user access permissions, and document change management procedures. IT General Controls (ITGCs) cover t [...]

Jumia is cutting another 10% of staff. AI is the framing. Profitability is the deadline.

Francis Dufay told Bloomberg TV the African e-commerce company is implementing AI across operations, logistics, finance, and marketing, and intends to be profitable by the end of the year. The 200 job [...]

Coutts raised its minimum to £3 million. Revolut just set its at £500,000. The mass-affluent gap is the point.

  Revolut is planning to launch a private banking unit in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe as soon as this summer, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The eligibility threshold [...]

A four-month-old startup just raised $650 million to build AI that improves itself

  The idea that an AI system could improve itself, then use those improvements to improve itself again, faster, in an accelerating loop that eventually outpaces every human researcher on earth, has b [...]

Seven million cameras on seven million faces: the smart glasses privacy crisis no one can stop

  The woman was shopping in London when she noticed something odd about the man approaching her. He wore sunglasses indoors, asked her name, told her she was gorgeous. What she did not notice was the [...]

The UK spent £900 million on Palantir. Now it is spending £175 million on a British AI company to fix the tax gap.

  HM Revenue and Customs has awarded a 175 million pound, ten-year contract to Quantexa, a London-based AI company, to modernise the tax authority’s data infrastructure and deploy artificial intell [...]