Hacker 'trying to sell stolen data after breaching Chinese supercomputer'

A security expert said a hacker has allegedly stolen sensitive information from a Chinese supercomputer and is trying to sell ...
CNET

Anthropic's Claude Can Now Take Over Your Computer to Do Tasks for You

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...
The Globe and Mail

Analysts Offer Insights on Technology Companies: Super Micro Computer (SMCI) and Block (XYZ)

Companies in the Technology sector have received a lot of coverage today as analysts weigh in on Super Micro Computer (SMCI) and Block (XYZ). According to TipRanks.com, Merchant is a top 25 analyst ...
The New York Times

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...
AOL

I talked to one of the laid-off Block employees. He gave me a sobering warning.

In late 2022, when ChatGPT was first blowing everyone's minds, Kenji didn't really get it. Sure, it did some pretty cool things. But so had plenty of other generative AI models he'd tinkered with over ...
Forbes

Block Lays Off 40% Of Staff And Blames It On AI. Don’t Buy The Excuse.

Payments company Block announced it’s laying off 40% of its staff. According to Chairman and founder Jack Dorsey: “This decision comes from a position of strength. Intelligence tools have changed what ...
Fox Business

Jack Dorsey cuts nearly half of Block workforce amid major AI overhaul

Block on Thursday announced that it will cut nearly half of its workforce as the payments firm works to embed artificial intelligence (AI) throughout its operations. The layoffs will affect over 4,000 ...
Reuters

Block shares soar as Dorsey leans on AI to trim workforce

Feb 27 (Reuters) - Block (XYZ.N), opens new tab shares soared more than 16% on Friday after the fintech firm announced it would nearly halve its workforce as part of an overhaul to embed artificial ...
The Independent

Jack Dorsey fires nearly half the staff at Block as he goes fully in on AI

Block, which owns payment service Cash App, went from more than 10,000 employees to just under 6,000 Thursday in what Dorsey called “one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company.” “We're ...
Business Insider

Here's what smart people are saying about Jack Dorsey slashing Block's workforce

Jack Dorsey announced major layoffs at Block, cutting nearly half of its workforce. Dorsey said AI was behind the cuts, and the company's stock rose over 20% in after-hours trading. Tech and VC ...
BBC

Jack Dorsey's Block cuts thousands of jobs as it embraces AI

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey says his technology firm Block is laying off almost half its workforce because artificial intelligence (AI) "fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a ...