C&EN

Modular syntheses: Putting function first

And Schafmeister isn’t the only chemist turning to modular methods of synthesis to explore vast regions of chemical space. It ...
The Cheat Sheet

‘Rock the Block’ Star Brooke Hogan Waited Tables as She Worked to Get Home Design Business Off the Ground

“I was never like, wanting to take daddy’s money,” the daughter of pro wrestler Hulk Hogan says in the April 13 season premiere of HGTV’s Rock the Block. While Brooke is best known for her time on ...
Seeking Alpha

Cipher Digital's $9B Pivot To AI Infrastructure Is Still Undervalued

Cipher Digital is transforming from a Bitcoin miner to a large-scale AI infrastructure provider, securing $9.3B in long-term contracts with AWS and Google/FluidStack. CIFR's flagship Black Pearl and ...
CoinTelegraph

Dorsey shares AI-integrated workplace vision weeks after Block’s 40% staff cut

Block cut 4,000 of its staff in February as part of its AI-driven pivot. A new post by Block's Jack Dorsey has shed light on how the company and others might operate in the future. Block co-founder ...
Wired

Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Explain the Block Layoffs

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 ...
Newsweek

Read Jack Dorsey’s Full Statement As He Lays Off Thousands of Workers

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In a lengthy note shared on X, the Block co‑founder said the company ...
TechCrunch

Jack Dorsey just halved the size of Block’s employee base — and he says your company is next

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, ...
Los Angeles Times

Block to cut more than 4,000 jobs amid AI disruption of the workplace

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 ...
Business Insider

Jack Dorsey says he's cutting nearly half of his staff — 4,000 jobs — at Block. Read the memo.

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 ...
Reuters

Jack Dorsey’s Block to cut nearly half its workforce in AI overhaul, shares surge

Block to cut over 4,000 jobs CEO says AI has changed how a company is run Stock surges 25% after market Analysts call cuts a "seminal moment" in AI era Feb 26 (Reuters) - Block (XYZ.N), opens new tab ...
CNBC

Block shares soar as much as 24% as company slashes workforce by nearly half

Block said Thursday it's laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its head count. Shares of the payment company skyrocketed as much as 24% in extended trading. It was last seen up nearly ...
CNN

Block lays off nearly half its staff because of AI. Its CEO said most companies will do the same

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 ...