Block, the parent company of payment apps Square, Cash App and Afterpay, is laying off more than 40 percent of its staff, pointing to recent advancements in AI that are “enabling a new way of working.

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 ...

As Newark grapples with extreme heat, chronic flooding and some of the lowest tree canopy coverage in the region, city officials are asking residents to help design solutions for their own ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to block the DC Council's decision to divorce from some of the tax breaks included in President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful bill. The 49-47 vote ...

Fans responded well to Turning Point USA’s Halftime show. Turning Point USA’s “All-American Halftime Show” brought all of the glitz and glamour. Millions of football fans tuned into the ‘All-American’ ...

PayPal and Block are competing for share in the $2.5 trillion global payments market as both push into new technologies and services. PayPal is expanding through AI shopping tools, global wallet ...

Amid a push toward AI agents, with both Anthropic and OpenAI shipping multi-agent tools this week, Anthropic is more than ready to show off some of its more daring AI coding experiments. But as usual ...

Congress took steps on Wednesday toward blocking changes to D.C.’s local tax code, even as District officials warned it could wreak havoc on tax season and smash a hole in the city’s budget. The House ...

OpenAI just lobbed a grenade at vibe-coding startups like Cursor and Windsurf. The company behind ChatGPT has announced the Codex MacOS app, its take on an integrated development environment (IDE) ...

Turning Point USA and another nonprofit founded by Charlie Kirk will match the federal government's $1,000 contribution to Trump Accounts, a program created with the intention of giving newborns a ...

OpenAI is releasing a new app called Prism today, and it hopes it does for science what coding agents like Claude Code and its own Codex platform have done for programming. Prism builds on Crixet, a ...