Santa Monica Daily Press

Block Party to Feature Live Music, DJs on Third Street Promenade

Downtown Santa Monica Inc., in partnership with Yappy Studios, will transform the Third Street Promenade into a free nightlife and music festival Saturday, February 14. Santa Monica Block Fest Vol.
The Guardian

Biden’s bid to block release of recordings made with ghostwriter fails

Judge finds public interest outweighs privacy rights in request made by staffer at Heritage Foundation A federal judge on Friday rejected Joe Biden’s attempt to block the Trump administration from ...
News Medical

Researchers explore "block and lock" strategy for functional HIV cure

For millions of people living with HIV, a daily regimen of medications is a lifelong necessity. If they stop taking the drugs-commonly referred to as antiretroviral therapy-the virus usually rushes ...
Comicbook.com

29 Years Ago, Cartoon Network Changed Forever by Delivering Its Best Programming Block of All-Time

29 years ago today, Cartoon Network was changed forever with the debut of its best programming block, and the anime world has never been the same since. In the 1990s and 2000s, Cartoon Network was the ...
The New York Times

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...
CNBC

Block cuts about half its workforce — how to move forward after a mass layoff, career experts say

Block said Thursday it is laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount. Layoff announcements among U.S. employers in January were the highest to start a year since 2009, ...
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 ...
The New York Times

Block Cuts 40% of Its Work Force Because of Its Embrace of A.I.

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, ...