Block’s “audacious” move ignites debate over whether the company is using AI as an excuse to walk back reckless hiring.

Payments firm Block is firing nearly 50% of workers, saying automation lets it do more with less. It grew bloated during the pandemic and overpaid for questionable deals. A $6 bln stock jump ...

Block, Jack Dorsey's payments company, will cut 6,000 of its 10,000 workers as it embraces AI. CNBC's Steve Sedgwick says it's the biggest story of the week.

"Today we shared a difficult decision with our team," Jack Dorsey, Block's co-founder and CEO, wrote in a letter to ...

About 4,000 workers will lose their jobs as the payments company does more work with new artificial intelligence tools, its ...

Fintech company Block said Thursday that it’s cutting more than 4,000 workers or nearly half of its workforce as artificial intelligence disrupts the way people work. The Oakland parent company of ...

File-based apps, extension members, nameof improvements, and user-defined compound assignment operators make life easier for C# programmers. You’ll need .NET 10.

Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI. After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work—drafting routine documents, summarizing information, and ...

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BUT OTHER ELECTED OFFICIALS HERE SAY THE STATE SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING. GOVERNOR KELLY AYOTTE SAYS SHE UNDERSTANDS GRANITE STATERS COULD BE UPSET NOW THAT A FEDERAL JUDGE HAS THROWN THE REPEAL OF ...

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When I started at my current job, I was hired into a brand new unit. There were only three of us, and we each operated mostly in our own silo. There was no hostility or toxicity, but there wasn’t much ...