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Jack Dorsey’s Block cuts 40% of staff, 4,000+ people — and yes, it’s because of AI efficiencies

Former Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s new company Block — the parent of merchants payment system Square, mobile peer-to-peer payments Cash App, music streamer Tidal, and open source AI agentic system Goose — is sending shockwaves across the business world tonight after announcing a more than 40% headcount, cutting its workforce by more than 4,000 people …

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Perplexity launches ‘Computer’ AI agent that coordinates 19 models, priced at $200 a month

Perplexity, the AI-powered search company valued at $20 billion, on Wednesday launched what it calls the most ambitious product in its three-year history: a multi-model agent orchestration platform called Computer that coordinates 19 different AI models to complete complex, long-running workflows entirely in the background. The product, currently available only to Perplexity Max subscribers at …

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Claude didn’t just plan an attack on Mexico’s government. It executed one for a month — across four domains your security stack can’t see.

Attackers jailbroke Anthropic’s Claude and ran it against multiple Mexican government agencies for approximately a month. They stole 150 GB of data from Mexico’s federal tax authority, the national electoral institute, four state governments, Mexico City’s civil registry, and Monterrey’s water utility, Bloomberg reported. The haul included documents related to 195 million taxpayer records, voter …

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Google’s Nano Banana 2 takes aim at the production cost problem that’s kept AI image gen out of enterprise workflows

For the last six months, enterprises wanting to deploy high quality AI image generation at scale have faced an uncomfortable trade-off: pay premium prices for Google’s Nano Banana Pro model, or settle for cheaper (sometimes free), faster, but noticeably inferior alternatives — especially in terms of enterprise requirements like embedded accurate text, slides, diagrams, and …

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ServiceNow resolves 90% of its own IT requests autonomously. Now it wants to do the same for any enterprise

ServiceNow is handling 90% of its own employee IT requests autonomously, resolving cases 99% faster than human agents. On Thursday it announced the product technology it wants to use to do the same for everyone else. Organizations have spent three years running pilots that stall when AI gets to the execution layer. The agent can …

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Alibaba’s new open source Qwen3.5-Medium models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers

Alibaba’s now famed Qwen AI development team has done it again: a little more than a day ago, they released the Qwen3.5 Medium Model series consisting of four new large language models (LLMs) with support for agentic tool calling, three of which are available for commercial usage by enterprises and indie developers under the standard …

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Gong launches ‘Mission Andromeda’ with AI sales coaching, chatbot and open MCP connections to rivals

Gong, the revenue intelligence company that has spent a decade turning recorded sales calls into data, today launched what it calls Mission Andromeda — its most ambitious platform release to date, bundling a new AI-powered coaching product, a sales-focused chatbot, unified account management tools, and open interoperability with rival AI systems through the Model Context …

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8 billion tokens a day forced AT&T to rethink AI orchestration — and cut costs by 90%

When your average daily token usage is 8 billion a day, you have a massive scale problem. This was the case at AT&T, and chief data officer Andy Markus and his team recognized that it simply wasn’t feasible (or economical) to push everything through large reasoning models. So, when building out an internal Ask AT&T …

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Visual imitation learning: Guidde trains AI agents on human ‘expert video’ instead of documentation

For years, the “last mile” of digital transformation has been littered with forgotten PDFs and ignored training manuals.  Organizations spend millions on sophisticated software like SAP or Salesforce, only for employees to struggle with basic navigation. Now, as the era of agentic AI arrives, companies face a double-edged sword: they must teach human employees to …

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Anthropic just released a mobile version of Claude Code called Remote Control

Claude Code has become increasingly popular in the first year since its launch, and especially in recent months, as developers and non-technical users alike flock to AI unicorn Anthropic’s hit coding agent to create full applications and websites in days, on their own, that would’ve taken months and technical teams without. It’s not a stretch …

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