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  • In February, CEO Jack Dorsey announced that Block was eliminating approximately 40% of staff.
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Meghan Soman was laid off from the same company twice.
  • Meghan Soman, an event director, was laid off twice from the same company — once in 2020 and again in 2024.
  • She said the second layoff was especially hard and led her to leave the industry for a year and a half.
  • Now, two years later, she said her biggest takeaway is not to take layoffs personally.

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Apple held celebrations for its 50th anniversary in several cities.
  • Apple is celebrating 50 years since its founding.
  • The iPhone maker has hit milestones like a $4 trillion market cap and lows like regulatory troubles.
  • Here's a look at how Apple has evolved, in photos, since its inception amid numerous challenges.

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Artemis II, the first crewed mission under the Artemis program, is scheduled to launch today, April 1. NASA is opening a two-hour window for its lift off, starting at 6:24 PM Eastern time, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The agency said the forecast for launch day “shows an 80 percent chance of favorable weather conditions” and that, on March 31, its engineers had finished critical health


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  • For Love & Money is a column from Business Insider answering your relationship and money questions.
  • This week, a reader has been asked by her parents to pay for her sister's rehab — but she doesn't want to.
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Todd McKinnon, CEO of Okta, said AI companies need to build a "kill switch" into their models.
  • Okta CEO Todd McKinnon says companies deploying AI agents will need a "kill switch."
  • He explained that companies will want to instantly revoke their access if something goes wrong.
  • Okta is positioning itself as the security layer for these agents.

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The experienced Ukrainian soldiers getting the Western training have more battle experience than their trainers.
  • Ukraine's soldiers showed more tactical imagination than their Western trainers, one officer recalled.
  • The British officer said the Ukrainians were happier to break with doctrine and would take more risks.
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  • DOGE worsened an existing staffing low at Social Security.
  • Beneficiaries worry that long wait times and impending insolvency will affect their checks.
  • The agency said new technology is improving customer service.

Social Security has been through the wringer.

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Gas prices have climbed on average.
  • The US isn't in a recession, based on conversations with six economists.
  • The Iran war complicates the picture, depending on how long it lasts and the severity of its effects.
  • Even if the US doesn't enter a recession, people aren't feeling so great about the economy.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
  • Meta quietly reorganized its recommendations team last fall to form an elite AI research lab.
  • Yang Song, a former TikTok executive, heads the unit.
  • The crucial Meta division has been adding top talent from OpenAI, Google, and Amazon.

Meta is building a team of elite AI researchers to optimize the powerful algorithms that keep people's eyeballs glued to


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