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Build more housing. Pretty simple.
In his first presser as Governor-elect, @XavierBecerra appears with Senate Pro Tem @MoniqueLimonCA & Asm Speaker @RobertRivas_CA, where they note voters’ “clear mandate” on affordability as the priority, but offer no specifics on their policy proposals to address these issues.
join me and us at @blocks builderlab event in SF next tuesday nov 10th! builderlabstudio.rsvpify.com
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More control in the kitchen, at the table, and across your businesses. Nine new features start going live next week:
→ Drag a kitchen ticket to the top of the screen so it gets made next
→ Fire held courses right from the Expo screen, with a countdown to cancel a mis-tap
→ Run more than one business? Switch between them from any page in Dashboard
→ Seat a party in Resy Powered by Tock and the check opens with the guest name, table, and server already on it
Check out all of our newest tools and features here: squareup.com/us/en/release-n…
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Lots more cooking for Afterpay
Another bunch of updates rolling into the @AfterpayUSA app.
We’ve been rebuilding the entire app. Shop tab was first, now we’re tackling orders, repayments, gift cards and everything in between.
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Cash App took over @ComplexCon last month, onboarding thousands of new bitcoin users.
Visitors fished free BTC from Lightning Lake, claimed via @CashApp, and bought merch with BTC using @Square.
Missed your chance to go fishing? Stay tuned... 🕹️
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Can confirm building is very fun at @blocks right now…
Block's @RagavanThurair says Jack Dorsey still operates like a startup founder, personally diving into AI model architecture and pushing his team to "build the crazy thing":
"@jack takes huge risks, and he's quite visionary. We work directly with him."
"He still has this founder attitude of, we should build the crazy thing, we shouldn’t shy away from it, we should take more risks."
"I don't know how he manages all of this stuff, cause Block is a big company. And still he has time to literally deep dive into the architecture of the model with us."
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audio in, audio out
Block trained its new voice AI entirely on speech, without using any text.
Dessa lead @RagavanThurair says even his team didn't expect it to develop such strong language understanding:
"It's trained entirely on speech, which is crazy. This company's training it just on speech, they have less data, it's a lot harder, how the hell are they gonna learn language like that? But somehow ours ended up better."
"I thought we would have to have text to get to this level of conversation understanding. We didn't expect it would learn language this good."
"People have done this before, like GSLM and Hertz-dev. The big gap is ours has a really strong understanding of language and you can actually have a realistic conversation with it."
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Block's @RagavanThurair tested AI voice models by making sounds of pain. They thought he was stretching or waking up.
He warns that this could become a serious safety problem as AI-powered robots gain more autonomy:
"I tried to make sounds of pain. I had this experience recently where my toddler stepped on a sensitive part of my body, and I couldn't say words. All I could do is make sounds of pain. Imagine a Unitree robot steps on me the same way. I can’t say words to say, get off of me."
"These models fail at that. It's like, oh, it sounds like you're stretching. Did you just wake up? It doesn't understand crying and things like that. There's a reason why we can hear emotion in voice."
"I think it's actually a huge safety issue as well. These AI models are taking more and more control of things."
"They're extremely smart, but if they don’t understand what we actually want or what we're trying to communicate, they can end up doing things we don't want."
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jack retweeted
Block's @RagavanThurair says Jack Dorsey still operates like a startup founder, personally diving into AI model architecture and pushing his team to "build the crazy thing":
"@jack takes huge risks, and he's quite visionary. We work directly with him."
"He still has this founder attitude of, we should build the crazy thing, we shouldn’t shy away from it, we should take more risks."
"I don't know how he manages all of this stuff, cause Block is a big company. And still he has time to literally deep dive into the architecture of the model with us."
@blocks
jack retweeted
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see you all there!
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On Nov 10 in San Francisco, hear from @jack on how we’ve been rebuilding as an intelligence company, and how other companies can too.
We’re introducing Builderlab, an enterprise intelligence toolkit built by Block.
Join us for a hands-on afternoon at the Builderlab Studio: builderlabstudio.rsvpify.com…
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Building the foundation for Block’s foundational models
From our eng team: engineering.block.xyz/blog/s…
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Now we'll finally learn what's in the Epstein files. Mike Johnson is no longer in a position to shut down the House in order to prevent votes on measures to force their release. It's time. It's past time.
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How is AI changing the way we design?
On Nov 10, @hams and Alex take us inside Block’s design practice: the experiments, the tools we’re building around how we work, and how it all feeds into Builderlab.
Come hang in SF builderlabstudio.rsvpify.com…
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We are just getting started.
Ain’t seen nothing yet.
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Come try Builderlab with the team 📷Nov 10, San Francisco
The stack so far:
- @jack on intelligence
- @bradleyaxen on how Builderlab works in practice
- explore and experiment with Builderlab live
Join us for a hands-on afternoon at the Builderlab Studio: builderlabstudio.rsvpify.com…
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8 years in of doing music professionally, 14 years since my first mixtape. Good things take time ! Grateful for the journey. Thank you Jesus ! Thank Yall ! Still more work to do !
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On Nov 10 in San Francisco, hear from @jack on how we’ve been rebuilding as an intelligence company, and how other companies can too.
We’re introducing Builderlab, an enterprise intelligence toolkit built by Block.
Join us for a hands-on afternoon at the Builderlab Studio: builderlabstudio.rsvpify.com…