Jack Dorsey Block Tech Layoff Tech Sellof Artificial Intelligence

Описание: This week on The Learning Corner, we cover three reads that got our team talking. First, an Anthropic safety researcher named Mrinank Sharma published his resignation letter publicly, walking away from a $380 billion company because he felt the organization's values and its actions were no longer aligned. We layer in Anthropic's decision to quietly walk back its Responsible Scaling Policy, the central safety commitment it built its brand around, and what that says about where the AI race is actually headed.

Then we get into Jack Dorsey's note to Block employees announcing he is cutting the company's workforce nearly in half, from over 10,000 people down to just under 6,000. The business is profitable and growing. His reason: AI and smaller teams are a fundamentally new way of building, and he decided to act on it now rather than drag it out. Block's stock jumped 24% after hours. We talk about whether this is a catalyst for other companies or a one-off, and whether moves like this are about real progress or signaling.

We close with a sharp data-backed LinkedIn post from Nic Poulos at Euclid Ventures making the case that venture has a consensus addiction. Seed startups priced below $20M are nearly 4x more likely to produce a 50x return than those above, and yet the 95th percentile seed valuation just hit $80M, up 130% in one year. The data is uncomfortable for a lot of people in this industry.

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