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Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools

TechnologyFebruary 27, 2026
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Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools
CEO says "most companies are late" to realize how much technology will affect employment.
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Block, the fintech group headed by Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, will cut its workforce by “nearly half” in one of the clearest signs of the sweeping changes AI tools are having on employment.

Shares in the payment company soared more than 25 percent in after-hours trading on Thursday as it announced it would shed more than 4,000 jobs from its 10,000-strong workforce.

“Intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company. We’re already seeing it internally,” Dorsey wrote in a letter to shareholders.

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