Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents

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Jack Dorsey’s Block launches Buzz, an open‑source, model‑agnostic group chat that lets humans and AI agents collaborate alongside Slack‑style workflows and GitHub integration.

Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
Jack Dorsey unveiled Buzz, a new platform that merges team chat, AI-powered agents, and Git-based code hosting into a single collaborative workspace.
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Block - Introducing Buzz: where humans and agents work together
Block launches Buzz, an open‑source Nostr‑based workspace where humans and AI agents collaborate as peers with shared context and flexible tooling.
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Inside the Rolling Layoffs at Jack Dorsey’s Block
Block employees describe a deteriorating culture with ongoing rolling layoffs, mandatory generative AI use, and performance anxiety after hundreds were fired.
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we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.####today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our
Block is laying off nearly half its workforce (over 4,000 people) citing AI-driven efficiency, while claiming strong business fundamentals.
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AI-Assisted Development at Block
Block Engineering's AI Champions program and repo readiness initiatives boosted AI-authored code by 69% and time savings by 37% in three months.
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