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White-collar workers, beware.CEO Jack Dorsey is departing from the classic tech layoff playbook — and it could be a sign of what’s to come.In a post on X on Thursday, the billionaire said he’s slashing nearly half Block’s workforce, cutting its over 10,000-person staff to just under 6,000. He said…

Fixation on futuristic AI catastrophe scenarios is allowing companies to evade accountability for the very real harms their technology is already causing, a professor says.In an essay published this week, Tobias Osborne, a professor of theoretical physics at Leibniz Universität Hannover and a cofounder of the scientific communication firm Innovailia,…