5,000+ Tech Workers Laid Off This Week. It's Just The Beginning. | E2286

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Yanez https://www.yanez.ai/

Bittensor Subnet 54 on TAOstats https://taostats.io/subnets/54

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News Links:

Cloudflare lays off 20% of its staff https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/07/cloudflare-net-q1-2026-stock-earnings-layoffs.html

Coinbase cuts 14% of its staff https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/coinbase-cut-about-14-workforce-2026-05-05/

Block post on how it is rebuilding its company https://block.xyz/inside/from-hierarchy-to-intelligence

Block’s earnings, including its raised guidance https://s29.q4cdn.com/628966176/files/doc_financials/2026/q1/Block_Q1-2026-Shareholder-Letter.pdf

WHOOP’s new on-demand clinicians https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/whoop-on-demand-clinician-access.html

Stripe Atlas’s growth https://x.com/patrickc/status/2050206647793144098/photo/1

Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction: Jason in Brooklyn, Knicks playoffs

1:54 Go Abacus joins: AI infrastructure for regulated industries

2:49 The Go1: 2,000-user on-prem AI appliance

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6:28 Pricing the Go1: How far does $250,000 go?

6:48 1,600 orders and the hardware delivery challenge

9:38 Sentry - New users can get $240 in free credits when they go to https://sentry.io/twist and use the code TWIST

19:47 Every.io - For all of your incorporation, banking, payroll, benefits, accounting, taxes or other back-office administration needs, visit https://every.io

26:46 Chicago tech scene and in-office culture

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34:35 Yanez joins: How to prove personhood and uniqueness

37:56 How biometric capture and bio-keys work

39:29 Agent delegation: proving humans authorized AI agents

43:43 Bittensor Subnet 54 and incentivizing adversarial miners

46:35 Founder University Japan Cohort 2 applications open

48:39 Tech layoffs: Cloudflare cuts 20%, Coinbase cuts 14%, Block raises guidance

1:01:38 Anthropic's $50B round at $900B pre-money

1:03:46 WHOOP adds on-demand clinicians

1:06:06 Federalism, state-level regulation, and AI policy

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