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San Francisco cloud payroll, benefits and HR platform for small businesses, formerly ZenPayroll, with a Gusto Pro suite for accounting firms.
LinkedIn began a free 14-week course on starting a business in September, enrolling 30 of its own employees, Fortune reported. Because the students are LinkedIn staff, the pilot can test a syllabus but cannot yet show what outside workers will pay for it.
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Gusto made its multi-client MCP server available to all accountant firms and put a rebuilt Gusto Pro into early access. Every change still returns to an accountant for approval, so the saving sits in prep time and the review stays.
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Gusto opened a multi-client MCP link for accounting firms, putting AI payroll prep within reach of the 23,000-plus firms it says use Gusto Pro. Accountants approve each change, but Gusto's terms leave accuracy checks with employers and data handling to AI providers' own policies.
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Risotto launched an agent for ambiguous Tier-2 IT tickets that saves each new fix as a runbook, and says its customers auto-solve 40% to 90% of tickets. Its bet is that the knowledge from a hard fix, usually lost in a closed ticket, can be kept and run again.
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American Express is selling small businesses a savings account, a card whose 2% rewards can be redeemed as deposits, and from early 2027 a payroll system whose AI it licenses from Gusto.
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LinkedIn's numbers describe this year's requisitions, not an inherited headcount. Bridgewater's 18% displacement estimate is what makes the staffing default expensive.
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