Inside Block's AI push that ended in pink slips

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

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2 founding members of Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab quietly left for Meta

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Murati's AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is seeking a $2 billion seed funding round, which could be the largest seed funding round in history.
Thinking Machines Lab CEO Mira Murati.

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OpenAI just hired back another employee from Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab

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Murati's AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is seeking a $2 billion seed funding round, which could be the largest seed funding round in history.
Thinking Machines Lab CEO Mira Murati.

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Salesforce is all in on AI. An internal survey reveals how employees feel about it.

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Marc Benioff said that the promise of AGI was a "TK"

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Meta says it won't chop the bottom 5% performers this year

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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Meta

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A recording of CEO Marc Benioff's keynote was posted on Salesforce's internal site. His jokes about ICE weren't included.

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Marc Benioff

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Slack's new head just denounced Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's ICE jokes in internal messages

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2025.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says Gemini 3 is so advanced that he has stopped using ChatGPT.

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Salesforce sent emails scolding employees for 'absence' at a company event after its CEO joked about ICE

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff speaks to thousands at the Moscone South Hall during Dreamforce in San Francisco on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. "This is the most exciting and most important Dreamforce," said Benioff.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff joked about ICE at an event, and employees are up in arms

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Marc Benioff speaks at the 2024 World Economic Forum in Davos
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff

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Google offers buyouts to staff in its business unit who aren't 'all in'

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Google chief business officer Philipp Schindler
Google chief business officer Philipp Schindler.

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