Block’s 40% layoffs spark questions about AI’s role and overhiring. Here’s what the data shows about headcount, compliance ...

Block beat views on growth in its consumer lending unit as writeoffs soared. With 40% of workers out, can AI replace them? If others follow, it could be AIpocalypse now.

Earnings season is wrapping up with a mixed bag of results across crypto miners, AI infrastructure plays and fintech names, ...

Name, image and likeness (NIL) deals have flooded college sports with hundreds of millions of dollars — but universities and team general managers have been operating with little formal oversight, ...

US tariff threat causes severe fuel shortages in Cuba Cuba plans to increase solar power and oil extraction Cuba open to US dialogue, demands non-interference HAVANA, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Cuban President ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — When people around the world are asked to name the single biggest problem facing their country, the answer is not war, climate change or politics. Instead, it’s something closer to ...

Google rolled out a brand new experimental AI tool last Thursday called Project Genie. By Friday, video game stocks were tumbling as a result. Gaming industry giants like Unity Software, Roblox, ...

NUUK, Greenland — President Donald Trump’s renewed demands for Denmark to hand over Greenland have received an icy response from locals on the remote Arctic island, usually far removed from world ...

BERLIN—The country on the front line of Europe’s rearmament effort is struggling to meet its military recruitment goals. The problem isn’t pacifism, but young people posing a new variation on the ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk's company xAI, as concerns grew among ...

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