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Federal Judge Allows AI Hiring Bias Claims Against Workday to Proceed as Collective Action

In Mobley v. Workday, Inc. (Case No. 3:23-cv-00770-RFL) in the Northern District of California, Judge Rita Lin declined Workday's motion to dismiss and permitted the suit to proceed as a collective action. At issue is Workday's AI recommendation system, which screens, scores and ranks applicants and automatically issues recommendations or rejections.

Plaintiffs argue the system produced disparate impact based on protected attributes. Workday counters that its tools do not learn or identify protected characteristics such as race, age or disability and only implement employer-set criteria, but the court is proceeding on the view that the company participates in decisions and may be liable as an employer's agent. In June 2026, Judge Lin also indicated Workday will likely face state-law claims under California's Fair Employment and Housing Act.

The case is among the first large suits seeking to hold AI hiring tool vendors accountable, testing how existing laws such as Title VII, the ADEA, the ADA and FEHA apply in the AI era. Many Fortune 500 companies route hiring through Workday, and AI recruiting tools are used by more than 80% of US firms.

OpenAI's Light Balance Sheet and Off-Balance-Sheet Commitments Become IPO Focus

OpenAI filed a confidential S-1 with the US SEC on June 8, 2026, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as lead underwriters and a possible autumn 2026 listing reported. The timing is not confirmed, and OpenAI has said it will take a while.

Recent statements show near-zero debt, just $46 million in quarterly capital expenditure and lease liabilities under $75 million, resembling a software company. Behind that, however, are off-balance-sheet compute commitments reportedly reaching $665 billion at the end of 2025 and extending to 2030, covering future payments for chips, power and data centers.

The structure reflects OpenAI's reliance on partners' balance sheets, with strategic partners including Microsoft carrying large data-center debt. The nonprofit OpenAI Foundation's control and related-party deals with Microsoft and NVIDIA are also expected to face disclosure scrutiny. OpenAI reported roughly $13.1 billion in 2025 revenue, with Q1 2026 revenue of $5.7 billion against $3.7 billion of cash burn and a gross margin of 39%.

OpenAI Releases Full GPT-5.5-Cyber and Codex Security Plugin Under Expanded Daybreak Program

The new GPT-5.5-Cyber scored 85.6% on the CyberGym vulnerability-reproduction benchmark, above the 81.8% of the underlying GPT-5.5. The model graduates from a limited preview to a full version, offered as a restricted release for vetted defenders working on critical infrastructure under the top Trusted Access for Cyber tier, with added verification, scoping, logging and controls.

The Codex Security plugin, available to Codex users, can scan, verify and patch vulnerabilities and prepare evidence for human review, with authorized red teaming, penetration testing and exploit validation. Patch the Planet works with open-source maintainers to apply fixes, with partners including Trail of Bits and HackerOne.

OpenAI had classified GPT-5.5, released in late April, as "High" cyber capability under its Preparedness Framework and prepared dedicated safeguards. CNBC reported availability to vetted security teams began around May 7. Daybreak frames the work as an agentic AppSec workflow of scan, verify, patch generation and evidence preparation.

Google Makes Interactions API Generally Available for Gemini and Agent Building

The API is positioned as a main interface for building agents on Gemini models, with added managed agent and orchestration capabilities. Together with AWS's Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, which also reached GA, developers can build agents without assembling their own RAG pipelines.

Google also separately announced a research partnership with film studio A24, aimed at having creators help shape next-generation AI tools. The company demonstrated AI voice ad generation using Gemini and BigQuery across 18 languages, reporting improved click-through rates and completion rates above 90%.