Forget Python Or Java: What You’re Speaking Is Code

Scripting languages like Python and JavaScript quickly gained popularity and pushed further toward human readability. They ...
Wall Street Journal

‘I Will Destroy You’: The Battle Inside a Midwestern Media Dynasty

John Robinson Block got a shocking phone call from his twin brother, Allan, in 2023. The editor in chief and publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Toledo Blade, John Robinson had recently ...
PBS

Judge blocks RFK Jr. from scaling back childhood vaccine recommendations

A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked federal health officials from cutting the number of vaccines recommended for every child, and said U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likely ...
Human Rights Watch

NHS England Blocks Access to Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapies

England’s National Health Service (NHS) has announced it will block new referrals for gender-affirming hormone therapy for transgender youth under 18, restricting access to evidence-based care and ...
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 ...
ABC7 San Francisco

Jack Dorsey's Oakland-based fintech company Block cutting 4,000 jobs over AI shift

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Shares in the Oakland-based financial technology company Block soared more than 20% in premarket trading Friday after its CEO announced it was laying off more than 4,000 of its ...
CNN

Block lays off nearly half its staff because of AI. Its CEO said most companies will do the same

Block, the company behind Square, Cash App and Afterpay, is cutting its staff by 40%. The reason: “intelligence tools,” according to a letter to shareholders by co-founder Jack Dorsey. Dorsey thinks ...
CNBC

IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat

International Business Machines stock is getting slammed Monday, becoming the latest perceived victim of rapidly developing AI technology, after Anthropic said its Claude Code tool could be used to ...
blockchain

Elisa Visual Programming for Kids Uses Claude Agents to Generate Real Code — Latest Analysis and 3 Opportunities

According to Claude on X (Twitter), Jon McBee’s Elisa is a block-based visual programming environment for children where snapped blocks trigger Claude agents that generate the underlying production ...
TechCrunch

European Parliament blocks AI on lawmakers’ devices, citing security risks

The European Parliament has reportedly blocked lawmakers from using the baked-in AI tools on their work devices, citing cybersecurity and privacy risks with uploading confidential correspondence to ...
Morningstar

Lunai Bioworks (NASDAQ: LNAI) Launches Sentinel, an AI Safeguard to Block Large Language Models from Generating Novel Chemical Weapons

Transformer-based biosecurity layer embeds directly into foundation models, using Lunai's proprietary toxicology and in-vivo datasets to detect and prevent creation of previously unknown threat agents ...