Low drama, amazing support, compliance first: @remote for payroll anywhere in the planet, and everything else your HR team needs (like recruiting from 800 million profiles, or device management, or performance management, or compensation benchmarking)

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving. Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these." "They just come with the table, man." They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared. "Did we…?" "Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless." Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude." Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most. Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

However worrying today's news on Anthropic and Fable 5 were, I'm 1000x more tense about the dependency the EU has on foreign technology - and how far behind it really is, and the gap is increasing exponentially.

Some snaps of a recent out of home campaign we did! There’s LOTS coming from us and our design team, stay tuned or, you know, come build it with me.

Fable writes mega dense. It's hilariously unskimmable for anything that you're not at least somewhat familiar with.

Greg “Joz” Joswiak talking about why Apple won’t ship Siri AI on iPhone & iPad in the EU at launch. EU’s rules would require Apple to give third-party AI assistants broad access to users personal context, something it believes would compromise privacy and security. “We hope other governments don’t follow the failed European experiment, the DMA” 📸: EFTM / YouTube

Today I'm publishing a new essay, Policy on the AI Exponential. AI is progressing extremely fast—much faster than the policy process was built to handle. The essay lays out where I think the technology is now, and the action needed to close the gap: darioamodei.com/post/policy-…

A band called Cor64 plays Nintendo 64 video game theme songs live and their GOLDENEYE cover is fantastic 🔥

We thank guests of our @Remote podcast, Total 180, with a gift made in partnership with Burel Factory. 🇵🇹 Burel is a wool from the Serra da Estrela mountains in Portugal. Shepherds have worn it for centuries because it holds up to the cold and rain. It's made by weaving on century-old looms, then felting slowly: the cloth is beaten with water and heat until it shrinks and locks into itself, which makes it dense and weatherproof. It's the sort of thing that can outlive you - the way more things used to be made. The craft almost disappeared when synthetics arrived. Old mills in the region closed down one by one until two people bought the Império factory in Manteigas to keep the 19th-century machines running and have the last master weavers teach the next generation. They then grew Burel Factory into a thriving brand that brings jobs back to the mountains and sends a piece of Portugal out into the world. That level of care is something you feel in the cloth and it's what we look for in the people who join the T180 podcast. In three questions and three minutes, guests like Nadia Vatalidis Head of People at @doist, Hannah Pritchett CPO at @AnthropicAI , and Cristina Cordova COO at @linear have shared what they've learned doing people work the right way. Thank you to our guests, to Nadia for sharing her gift, and to the team at Burel Factory. High quality that is felt. I'm proud this one comes from home.

"new siri ai features not available in the EU" asfd;ljksdfal;kjasfd

You give your team equity to reward them. Then you go global and unlock a new level: taxes. Equity is taxed where your employee lives, not where you're based, and depending on the country and the type of grant, it can hit at vesting or exercise, before anyone has sold anything. Get the setup wrong and it goes further. Your company can end up with what tax authorities call a permanent establishment: they decide you're operating in their country and owe taxes there, with registration and filings, even though you never opened an office there. So if done wrong, the perk ends up cutting both ways. Your employee can get a surprise tax bill on the upside you gave them and the company can pick up exposure in countries it never meant to operate in, usually surfacing in an audit or fundraise diligence, when it's expensive to fix. Doing this right is the whole job and it's what our team and infrastructure are built for. We carry the withholding and the local compliance, country by country, so the equity does what you meant it to do. Give equity. Just don't go in alone. Take this: 🔵 @Remote

For the second year in a row, Payroll Specialist of the Year went to someone at @Remote. Last night in Barcelona, it was Amruddin Sahray. Well done Din, congrats!!! 🚀 And he wasn't our only finalist in the category. Big congratulations to Yallappa Shekshindi and Rahul Shesh who were also shortlisted for the same award. Grateful for the people we get to work with every day including all the Remoters who attended the Global Payroll Awards: Charlotte Rawicz, Filipa Matos, Victoria Thatcher, David Spencer, Pedro Monteiro de Barros, Simone Terranova, John Papagiannis, Tanya Gosling, Yulia Artamonova, Kehinde Anthony Adepoju, Alexandra Read, and José Arthur Botelho. Our people just know payroll.

People assume a company like @Remote gets built from behind a laptop. For the first few years, @Jobvo and I were getting on planes. We flew country to country to set up our own legal entities, open bank accounts, document compliance, and learn the local details that make payroll work. Here's us in 2023, celebrating Japan, the latest country expansion at the time, with our favorite food. When we started, people told us we were nuts. "Just buy some local companies, duct-tape something on top, and sell that." We didn't want to. Payroll has no shortcuts, and the shortcut always comes due for the person on the other end: someone gets deported, or doesn't get paid on time, or opens their payslip to a surprise. So we did the slow thing. We went into every country we operate in and built the stack from the ground up, one country at a time, laying those rails by hand. We're the only company that did it that way. Now everyone's racing to put AI on top of payroll and finding out useful AI only works when there's something real underneath it. Seven years of flights, entities, and paperwork, so that one day this could feel effortless. Now we've opened it up and the best is yet to come. Any company, any tool, any workflow, any AI agent can plug into Remote and run on the global payroll infrastructure we spent seven years building: okt.to/pvabZ8 Let's go!

Incredible work on making the worst interior displays ever

We cancelled a $60,000 contract this year because someone on the @remote team built the replacement in an afternoon. It took 3 hours and 17 minutes. Total cost: $216. The tool tracks where our people are, surfaces live travel advisories, and automates the outreach workflow when something needs attention. This is the part of AI that I care about: A person close to the problem saw a workflow that did not fit how the team worked, used the tools available, and built something better. No long procurement cycle. No waiting for a vendor roadmap. No pretending that a generic tool would understand the exact edge cases we needed. Remote has spent years building the boring infrastructure underneath global employment: payroll, contracts, entities, payments, local rules, permissions, approvals, and workflows. Boring is good here. Boring means the system knows enough to be trusted. When you put agents on top of that kind of infrastructure, they become a way to get very real work done. The hard questions in HR are usually messy. What does this country require? What does payroll need? What needs approval? What happens next? Most software makes people stitch those answers together across tabs, exports, dashboards, and Slack messages. Agents should shorten the distance between the question and the work. That is the part I am excited about: teams building what they need, on top of the same data, permissions, and guardrails already inside Remote. Get started: okt.to/bx8OyH

Remote Agents are powerful enough to - on the fly right in our payroll platform - build DOOM. Coming soon to all @remote customers (also useful for paying people)

SpaceX had achieved nothing of note after 3 years and was written off as dead after 6 years with 3 consecutive launch failures. But you may have noticed that things are different now.

My map shows shipping traffic density. Or, as pirates called it: market research

moved a pretty complicated home server from one machine to the other (different version OS) by giving claude ssh access to both and said "make the new server like the old" worked.

Most sci-fi thing I’ve seen

Everyone hating on this design, but I actually like it. However not being able to turn off the fake engine noise is ridiculous.