It was just last week when Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey, laid off 4,000 workers from his Block financial services provider, shedding around 40% of the global workforce in one stroke. The given reason? AI.
“We’re already seeing it internally. A significantly smaller team, using the tools we’re building, can do more and do it better,” Dorsey said at the time. “And intelligence tool capabilities are compounding faster every week.”
“To those staying…i made this decision, and i’ll own it,” he said.

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