CHRO Appointments: Sharps Medical Waste Services named Silvia Costa as Chief Human Resources Officer, tasking her with talent acquisition, leadership development, engagement and workforce planning as the firm expands. Workforce & Skills: The British Academy warned that humanities and social sciences cuts are shrinking degree options, with nearly 4,000 academic posts axed in a year, raising concerns for social mobility. HR, Immigration & Compliance: Immigify, a Nigerian-founded AI immigration platform, raised $1m pre-seed to help skilled workers, employers, attorneys and HR teams navigate U.S. immigration paperwork and changing rules. Labor Rights & Union Push: Twenty-two trade union leaders urged Rockstar to recognize the IWGB Game Workers union and start bargaining, spotlighting HR and workplace representation in gaming. Data Governance: Vietnam’s proposed Data Security law would ban export of “core” data and require approvals for “important” and large personal data transfers, a major compliance shift for multinationals. Workplace Safety/Privacy: An ambulance trust investigation is probing whether staff accessed Southport attack victims’ records without authorization, fueling scrutiny of staff conduct and patient data handling. AI & Hiring: A report on frontier AI disclosure laws in U.S. states (Illinois, New York, California) points to new governance expectations that will affect HR risk management and vendor oversight.