The abrupt rupture between Anthropic and the U.S. government is more than a political flashpoint. For enterprises that work with, or sell into, government and other highly regulated sectors, it is a live-fire stress test of AI supply chains, vendor… Read More »Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: How to De-Risk Your AI Stack With Interoperability and Backup Models
Block is executing one of the sharpest workforce resets in big-cap fintech, with CEO Jack Dorsey moving to cut nearly half of the company’s staff while asking investors to buy into an “AI-era” operating model and richer profit margins. The… Read More »Jack Dorsey’s ‘AI-Era’ Reset at Block: Halving Headcount to Double Down on Automation
Introduction: When PostgreSQL Statistics Quietly Break Your Performance Some of the slowest PostgreSQL databases I’ve tuned didn’t suffer from bad hardware or terrible SQL; they were held back by quietly broken PostgreSQL statistics. The planner was making perfectly logical decisions… Read More »Top 7 Ways PostgreSQL Statistics Go Bad and Make Queries Slow
Bitcoin’s latest rally has been running with a powerful tailwind behind it: a record build-up of margin debt in U.S. securities accounts, emerging recession signals, and a growing U.S. Treasury buyback program that is reshaping some of the macro plumbing… Read More »Bitcoin’s $1.2 Trillion Margin Tailwind: How Leverage, Recession Fears, and Treasury Buybacks Shape the Next Move
Block, the fintech company led by former Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and parent to Square, Cash App, Tidal, and the open source AI orchestration project Goose, has executed one of the largest workforce reductions the sector has seen: more than… Read More »Inside Block’s 40% Layoffs: How Agentic AI Is Reshaping Fintech Organizations