John Robinson Block got a shocking phone call from his twin brother, Allan, in 2023. The editor in chief and publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Toledo Blade, John Robinson had recently ...

A lot of healthy diets are considered to be just as good for your brain as they are for your body. But one in particular, which is usually recommended for lowering blood pressure, may be particularly ...

The CEO said he cut the company’s workforce by 4,000 people – almost in half – because of gains in AI productivity Mark remembers the first time he wondered whether he was teaching Block’s AI tools ...

Bianchi’s new Infinito embraces the latest endurance bike trends that have appeared since it was last updated in 2024. The previous generation saw only subtle changes, with Bianchi keeping the ...

When the bombs hit in Iran, I thought of Jack Dorsey. In 2009, he and I were both part of a contingent of technology people sent by the US State Department to Baghdad, in the wake of another ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jack Dorsey has long been an open admirer of Elon Musk. Now, it seems, he may have been taking notes. On Thursday, Dorsey announced that Block, the payments company he founded that operates Square, ...

About 4,000 workers will lose their jobs as the payments company does more work with new artificial intelligence tools, its top executive said. By Natallie Rocha Reporting from San Francisco Block, ...

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 ...

Block, the company behind Square, Cash App and Afterpay, is cutting its staff by 40%. The reason: “intelligence tools,” according to a letter to shareholders by co-founder Jack Dorsey. Dorsey thinks ...

Block is letting go of over 4,000 employees, cutting the company nearly in half, cofounder and CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday. "I had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays ...