The AI boom runs on tens of millions of workers nobody has figured out how to pay, Papaya Global wants to fix that.
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If AI labs describe their workforce as a map of contractors and labelers, payroll and compliance become a global orchestration problem, not an HR afterthought. Anyone scaling AI operations across jurisdictions should treat workforce payments and classification as core infrastructure risk, not back office noise.
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