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May 19-26, 2025:
• Involving many millions of people Workday AI bias lawsuit to proceed as collective action;
• Playing the tarantula: ‘Venom Spider’ targets hiring managers & recruiters in phishing scheme;
• Growing too much and too fast: Austin’s reign as a tech hub might be coming to an end;
• Feeling the need for speed: Parliamentary Hiring Taskforce to make UK hiring fastest in world;
• Defying copyright laws: Google instantly sued over AI Mode: justified, but missing the point.
• TAtech North America & The World Job Board Forum, June 3-5, 2025 in Oceanside just north of San Diego, California. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars.
• TAtech Europe & The EMEA Job Board Forum, November 11-12, 2025 in London, England. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars.
Seating is limited at all events, so register today!
Workday Inc. will have to face a collective-action lawsuit alleging that the company’s artificial intelligence-based applicant recommendation system discriminated against workers age 40 and older (Mobley v. Workday, Inc.), a federal judge ruled Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Judge Rita Lin granted the applicant’s request for preliminary certification of a collective action on the age discrimination claim because applicants “are alike in the central way that matters: they were allegedly required to compete on unequal footing due to Workday’s discriminatory AI recommendations,” according to the order.
A threat actor tracked as “Venom Spider” is targeting HR staff like recruiters with a complex phishing scheme that capitalizes on the need for such staff to open email attachments. Researchers at security vendor Arctic Wolf tracked the campaign, which targets hiring managers and recruiters with specialized spear-phishing emails. As Arctic Wolf Labs explained in a May 2 blog post, employees responsible for the hiring process can be some of the most vulnerable in these kinds of cyberattacks.
Nearly five years after Austin, Texas, became a darling of the tech industry, luring companies out of California with the promise of lower taxes and a better quality of life, the city is now bleeding tech talent that is flowing back to the coasts. A new report from venture-capital firm SignalFire shows that in 2024 Big Tech employment declined 1.6% in Austin, and startup employment fell 4.9%. Tech employment in Dallas and Houston also declined, along with cities like Denver and Toronto. Tech employment grew, on the other hand, in New York and San Francisco.
The UK’s Hiring Taskforce has been created by Parliament and industry to transform hiring by utilising the latest technology to make UK hiring the fastest in the world. By exploring the use of digital credentialing, AI, and the latest hiring concepts the aim is to develop a new way for people to find and get into work.
The News/Media Alliance’s blistering statement that Google “just takes content by force” and that its new AI Mode is “the definition of theft” lit up every tech feed yesterday. The publishers are right to be angry; Google’s latest search UI hides the familiar blue-link list behind a tab and surfaces a Gemini-generated answer built from their stories without compensation. The Alliance has asked the Justice Department to fold this issue into the remedies phase of the government’s search-monopoly case. If the DOJ agrees, Google could face structural changes or compulsory licensing. That matters because search advertising still funds the internet. Marketers spent about $252 billion on search ads worldwide in 2022, according to Statista. Alphabet reported about $198 billion in “Search & Other ad revenue” in 2024.
• TAtech North America & The World Job Board Forum, June 3-5, 2025 in Oceanside just north of San Diego, California. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars.
• TAtech Europe & The EMEA Job Board Forum, November 11-12, 2025 in London, England. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars.
Seating is limited at all events, so register today!
