A decade of official labor statistics from the UK Office for National Statistics and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows no net aggregate job destruction nearly four years into commercial large la…
The Model Context Protocol's July 28, 2026 update made MCP fully stateless, replacing the initialize handshake and Mcp-Session-Id header with a portable session credential called a handle that lives i…
Block joined the x402 Foundation and contributed Bitcoin Lightning support to the open payment protocol used by AI agents, web services and applications, according to a September 24 announcement. A Se…
Block has joined the x402 Foundation and added Bitcoin Lightning support to the x402 payment protocol, expanding its push into payments for AI agents. Steve Lee, head of Block's Bitcoin development in…
Block is building Buzz, an open-source tool that lets community members share spare compute and run open models together over peer-to-peer networks using iroh's networking stack. Buzz integrates MeshL…
Block posted an on-site Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Modeling), Support role in Seattle, WA, requiring 10+ years of machine learning, applied AI, or product ML experience and skills in RAG, PyTorc…
ScopeTrail, a new Apache 2.0 TypeScript library, has launched to provide audit receipts for multi-hop agent delegation, minting Ed25519 signatures over JCS (RFC 8785) and storing them in an AT Protoco…
At the 2026 Fast Company Innovation Festival, Spotify senior director of product design Emily Galloway said human judgment is becoming more important as generative AI lowers the cost of invention, cit…
A developer advocate describes leading Developer Relations teams through the AI boom by taking unconventional, hands-on approaches — including building a Copilot talk that became one of O'Reilly Media…
The Cato Institute warned in a Monday blog post that a government-mandated pause on artificial intelligence development would shield dominant firms from competition and delay beneficial technology, wi…
Fast Company will host a panel on how AI is reshaping product design, featuring Carson Caprara, chief product officer at Brooks Running; Brooke Ellis, chief design officer at Block; and Emily Galloway…
A June 2026 working paper from Ramp economists Ara Kharazian and Ryan Stevens with Revelio Labs' Lisa Simon, pairing Ramp spend data with Revelio Labs payroll records across more than 21,000 US busine…
Block CFO Amrita Ahuja said at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia & Tech Conference that tech companies can balance user choice with AI safeguards, pushing back on Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who re…
OpenAI announced it used an internal model and millions of dollars of compute to solve the Navier-Stokes millennium problem, a claim immediately disputed by mathematicians Tristan Buckmaster and Levan…
Buzz, an open-source workspace from Block (created by Jack Dorsey), runs coding agents in a git worktree rather than a sandbox, allowing agents to operate with the same context as human teammates. The…
The Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) project released its fourth specification update on August 25, 2026, introducing grocery shopping features and breaking schema changes that require updates for ad…
SageOx has launched an open-source, Buzz-compatible Agent Toolkit that integrates team memory into hosted AI agents, enabling them to share context on decisions and conventions across a workspace. The…
Mesh LLM, an open-source project led by developer Michael Neale and endorsed by Jack Dorsey, pools idle Nvidia GPUs into a decentralized network for running large language models without cloud provide…
Nasdaq-listed Empery Digital (EMPD) reduced its Bitcoin treasury to 1,179 BTC while reporting $62 million in cash and $35 million in debt, reaffirming its Bitcoin accumulation strategy and expanding i…
Ninety percent of executives believe AI has not boosted productivity at their companies, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper cited by University of Pittsburgh professor M…