Telangana’s new gig worker law does not resolve the employment-status question, but it does mark a break with the long regulatory absence that allowed platforms to govern labour with minimal accountability.
Oracle’s layoffs show how the AI transition is being financed: by cutting labour to fund capital-intensive cloud and data-centre buildout — with the contradiction especially sharp in India.
As AI systems become increasingly capable across cognitive work, the central issue is not only automation but the changing balance of dependence between capital and labour.