The brutal metric companies are using to show their AI bets are justified

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Block CEO Jack Dorsey announced cuts to nearly half his workforce in a memo on X.

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Inside Block's AI push that ended in pink slips

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Jack Dorsey's Block is looking for more senior AI engineering talent amid a 40% workforce reduction at the company.

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Microsoft is considering a new AI-loaded software bundle for Microsoft 365, sources say

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at LlamaCon 2025, an AI developer conference, in Menlo Park, California, on April 29, 2025.
Satya Nadella says he studies startups to relearn the speed and agility Microsoft lost as it grew.

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AI has a millennial cringe problem

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Millennials, it's all our fault: The avocado toast, and the "cringe" talk from ChatGPT and other LLMs.

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OpenAI's record funding is essentially everyone against Google in the AI race

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

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Sam Altman navigates Anthropic's Pentagon fight as OpenAI pursues its own deal with the military

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

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Jack Dorsey says Block overhired during COVID, but to blame layoffs on that alone 'misses all the complexity'

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Jack Dorsey creator, co-founder, and Chairman of Twitter and co-founder & CEO of Square speaks on stage at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention.
Jack Dorsey told Block staff that the layoffs were not due to AI.

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Sam Altman says non-technical people can work on making AGI happen if they have taste

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has criticized The New York Times after its lawyers asked to see ChatGPT user logs as part of the legal discovery process.

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CEO Jack Dorsey issues a dire warning about AI's impact as he cuts Block by almost half

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Block CEO Jack Dorsey.
Block CEO Jack Dorsey.

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Google is dialing up the pressure for more employees to use AI — and not just engineers

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Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, told staff last year to ramp up their use of AI.

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