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 agenti [...]

Evals are the new PRD, Expedia’s AI chief tells VB Transform 2026

“The new PRD are the evals,” Xavi Amatriain, Expedia Group’s first chief AI and data officer, told the VB Transform 2026 audience last week in Menlo Park. “So basically, you encode what you wa [...]

Two startups want to replace how AI learns: one just raised $180M, another is seeking up to $1B

Two new AI labs want to reinvent the foundations of AI development: Flapping Airplanes is raising 180 million dollars, Core Automation is looking for up to a billion. Both believe that AI development [...]

UiPath’s new orchestrator guides AI agents to follow your enterprise’s rules

UiPath's agent orchestration layer Maestro moves prompts through three layers: the agent, a human and the robotic process automation system. [...]

Former Google, Meta leaders launch Palona AI, bringing personalized, emotive customer agents to non-techie enterprises

Palona’s approach suggests that customer relationships don’t have to be sacrificed for automation—instead, AI can enhance personalization. [...]

Forward-deployed engineering is how enterprise AI learns

Presented by ZetaEvery forward-deployed engineering (FDE) pitch sounds identical for the first ten minutes: an engineer embedded on-site, a workflow encoded within weeks, a demo that finally works on [...]

Apple’s new Siri AI is more than just a smarter assistant — it's a new enterprise app layer

Apple’s new Siri AI, unveiled yesterday at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2026), may look like a consumer product story on the surface. But for enterprise developers and I [...]

Agent Washing: Why Some Restaurant Operators Are Wary of Overhyped AI

For those in the restaurant industry, it seems like AI rollouts have hit a rocky road. In the Spring, Starbucks switched off a computer-vision system for counting inventory before it was a year old. I [...]

AI is old news. Generative AI is the future.

The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) is well known, often evoking futuristic movies like Robocop, Terminator and The Matrix. Yet what many don’t realize is that AI has been part of our lives [...]