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…
Cash App's AI financial assistant Moneybot has automated bug fixing for its LLM-powered system, producing more than 40 verified fixes and establishing that more than 100 reported failures no longer re…
Block released BlockTabBench2026, an evaluation benchmark of over one hundred datasets from its production machine learning ecosystem, and found that tabular foundation models using in-context learnin…
OnlyFans creators are warning that AI-generated deepfake accounts using cloned voices and synthetic videos are tricking fans into paying for nonexistent content, causing financial losses and safety ri…
Block Inc., the fintech company led by Jack Dorsey, announced on February 26 that it will cut approximately 4,000 jobs, reducing its workforce from over 10,000 to about 6,000, a 40% reduction, as part…
OnlyFans creators are warning that AI-generated deepfakes are impersonating them to scam fans and create safety risks, with some fans sending money to scammers and others showing up at creators' homes…
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Block, announced Buzz, a new open-source group chat platform for teams and AI agents, on Tuesday. Built by Block, Buzz aims to challenge Slack and GitHub by merg…
Experts warn that AI-generated fake websites are targeting FIFA World Cup ticket buyers, with scammers creating convincing replicas of official ticketing pages and fraudulent holiday rentals. Emily Gr…
Block has launched Builderbot, a suite of AI-native tools that orchestrates multiple AI agents across its entire codebase to automate coding tasks. The tool executes over 200,000 operations daily and …
Block Inc. CEO Jack Dorsey co-authored an essay arguing that AI makes middle management obsolete, as the company cuts 40% of its workforce. The new model replaces managers with individual contributors…
Jack Dorsey's Block revealed that its internal AI engineering system, Builderbot, now accounts for 15% of all production code changes at the company. The system, built on Block's open-source framework…
Block open-sourced Goose, an AI agent that scaled to 60% of Block's ~12,000 employees across 15 job profiles including engineering, sales, and product management. The key to adoption was a YAML-based …
Arc, a voice AI startup founded by Square and Cash App veterans, has raised $10.76 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to power drive-thru ordering and business optimization. The compan…