In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block’s cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.”
Category: AI
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Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Explain the Block Layoffs
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‘With Wix Harmony we’ve redefined how people can build online’: Wix is harnessing ChatGPT to help you build your next website
- Wix launches ChatGPT integration for website creation
- Users can build and manage sites via natural language
- New app offers enterprise-grade features by default
Top website builder Wix has announced a new integration with ChatGPT that will allow…
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Liquid AI Releases LocalCowork Powered By LFM2-24B-A2B to Execute Privacy-First Agent Workflows Locally Via Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Liquid AI has released LFM2-24B-A2B, a model optimized for local, low-latency tool dispatch, alongside LocalCowork, an open-source desktop agent application available in their Liquid4All GitHub Cookbook. The release provides a…
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Anthropic to challenge DOD’s supply chain label in court
Dario Amodei said Thursday that Anthropic plans to challenge the Defense Department’s decision to label the AI firm a supply chain risk in court, a designation he has called “legally unsound.”
The statement comes a few hours after the…
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DiligenceSquared uses AI, voice agents to make M&A research affordable
A typical merger-and-acquisition process is time-consuming and expensive, even for the largest, well-staffed private equity firms. In addition to spending countless hours meeting with senior executives of potential targets and modeling financial…
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A Coding Guide to Build a Scalable End-to-End Machine Learning Data Pipeline Using Daft for High-Performance Structured and Image Data Processing
In this tutorial, we explore how we use Daft as a high-performance, Python-native data engine to build an end-to-end analytical pipeline. We start by loading a real-world MNIST dataset, then progressively transform it using UDFs,…
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Google AI Releases a CLI Tool (gws) for Workspace APIs: Providing a Unified Interface for Humans and AI Agents
Integrating Google Workspace APIs—such as Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and Sheets—into applications and data pipelines typically requires writing boilerplate code to handle REST endpoints, pagination, and OAuth 2.0 flows. Google AI…
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‘Uncanny Valley’: Iran War in the AI Era, Prediction Market Ethics, and Paramount Beats Netflix
Zoë Schiffer: Emil Michael, you should turn off your views on LinkedIn because people can see when they look at your phone.
Brian Barrett: Yeah, that’s a tip for Emil Michael if you’re listening. And then, if you listen to Uncanny Valley, which…
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OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is still in the hot seat this week after his company signed a deal with the US military. OpenAI employees have criticized the move, which came after Anthropic’s roughly $200 million contract with the Pentagon imploded, and…
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AWS launches a new AI agent platform specifically for healthcare
Amazon Web Services announced Thursday the launch of Amazon Connect Health. This AI agent-powered platform is meant to help healthcare organizations automate repetitive administrative tasks including appointment scheduling, documentation, and…
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