The parent company of Cash App, After Pay and Square laid off nearly half its staff this week. Wall Street cheered, sending the stock up nearly 20%. Get used to headlines like this. Owner Jack Dorsey — the founder of Twitter — claims AI enabled the workforce slashing. My hunch [Keep reading]
The next time you fire up your favorite streaming service, the music you hear might be made by a robot. Maybe you don’t care; you’re just looking for something to help you kill those 30 minutes on the treadmill. But you should care. The sound you might not hear is [Keep reading]
Want to cut your rent in half? There’s a new, easy way to do that! Just pay the second half in two weeks. Sound crazy? Many landlords are offering this option now, just the latest incursion of buy now, pay later into consumers’ lives. If you haven’t yet encountered the [Keep reading]
Bob Sullivan