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- AI finished the task, so why isn't it what I wanted?
This is a commentary published on the WeChat account “我是张大朵啊” by Zhang Qiduo, prompted by another essay, “Thoughts on AI-Native Organizations.” The author argues that when AI takes over more work, the output often gets “done” without being what the user actually wanted, and attributes the difference to accumulated personal context — she says her years of dialogue with her own AI, which she describes as more than ten million words, taught it her standards of judgment, while a company's internal AI lacks that history. The piece also argues that AI-native organizations push employees to deposit decisions, discussions and judgments as organizational assets, which can standardize individual skills and reduce an organization's dependence on any one person, and suggests individuals build their own production systems.
虎嗅 AI · 🔥 5 - Square launches $1,999 AI kiosk with conversational voice ordering
Square has unveiled the Square Kiosk, a 21.5-inch touchscreen ordering terminal with what the company calls an "agentic, conversational voice layer." Square says the voice layer "fully understands a seller's menu and listens and responds in real time," letting customers order the way they would naturally talk to staff, including asking questions or requesting modifications and substitutions. The pill-shaped device uses presence detection to greet customers as they approach and supports a contactless payment reader or card slot. It is available starting today at $1,999 for businesses with a Square Plus or Premium subscription, plus a $99-per-device monthly software fee.
The Verge AI · 🔥 0 - Block taps OpenAI Daybreak for AI-powered security operations
In a customer story published by OpenAI, Block — the company behind Square, Cash App and Afterpay — says its security team uses the OpenAI Defense Factory and has built its security harness on OpenAI Daybreak to handle vulnerability discovery, detection and response, with humans validating every result and deploying changes. OpenAI reports that Block can now replay a proposed detection change against seven months of production telemetry in under an hour, that a recent red-team exercise went from a high-level vulnerability submission to an automated proposed patch in about 18 minutes, and that the team saw a 50% boost in triage throughput, a 50% increase in intelligence gathering and investigations, and roughly 1,100 analyst-hours of investigation per quarter. Block CISO James Nettesheim said the team now picks different models for different tasks and plans to raise the risk level for more sensitive systems as AI judgment is proven out.
OpenAI · 🔥 0 - Cerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warnings, urges focus on upside
Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman pushed back on the prevailing AI doomsday narrative, quipping that "some of the leaders in the AI world maybe shouldn't be allowed to talk in public." He argued the industry is over-focused on AI risks while potential benefits are overlooked, offering the example of grandchildren who would "never meet anybody who dies of cancer." Feldman said powerful technologies inevitably raise the question of misuse and should be reasonably regulated, acknowledged that the data center industry has done a poor job engaging US local communities, and named Brazil, Canada, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Mexico and Sweden as markets more welcoming to data center construction. The report notes that Cerebras customers include OpenAI, Block, Figma, GSK and Lovable, giving Feldman a commercial stake in AI's success.
TechCrunch AI · 🔥 0 - Block, Cloudflare and Klaviyo on rebuilding companies for the agentic era
In a panel moderated by The Information co-executive editor Amir Efrati, leaders from Block, Cloudflare and Klaviyo described how agentic AI is reshaping how their companies are organized. Cloudflare chief strategy officer Stephanie Cohen said the company had to redesign the work itself rather than bolt AI onto existing processes, cutting whole functions and building a “harness” layer that connects models to security, systems of record, company context and employee identities so models can be swapped. Block business lead Owen Jennings said that once agents could write production code in complex systems, the company rebuilt its functional model so engineering, product, design and sales work across Square, Cash App and Afterpay on shared capabilities; Block says it shipped about three times as many Square features in the first half of 2026 as a year earlier. Block also open sourced Buzz, a workspace where each agent has its own identity, permissions and context, while Cloudflare hired 1,111 interns this year and Klaviyo places engineers alongside partner functions as domain experts. Cohen said she personally expects more employees in five years.
The Information · 🔥 0 - Block uses Claude Fable 5 to orchestrate code migrations across thousands of pull requests
In a Claude Blog Q&A published October 8, 2026, Block's head of AI capabilities Bradley Axen described how the company uses Claude Fable 5 to orchestrate company-wide code migrations: the model does high-level design work such as data models, API specs and algorithms, then directs up to dozens of cheaper models like Opus or Sonnet to make file edits and run tests. A single migration can span multiple repos and millions of lines of code, with as many as roughly a thousand pull requests merged, all coordinated in Buzz, Block's open-source workspace for human-agent teams. Axen said merges to main and production deploys still require two human approvals, and that in Block's own testing Claude refuses to try to bypass that dual-approval system.
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