Block has open-sourced Berd, a desktop application that manages AI agents across projects, skills, tools, and models, emphasizing visible context as a key design principle. The app, built with Tauri 2…
Block released Bird, a free, open-source desktop app that unifies multiple AI coding agent harnesses—including Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Amp, Cursor agent, and Goose—into a single interface,…
Bybit said AI-assisted auditing found high-severity vulnerabilities at up to five times the rate of manual review, cutting assessment-to-testing time from about two weeks to two hours, and stopped mor…
A July 2026 survey by ResumeTemplates of 1,000 managers at US companies with more than 500 employees found that 59% use AI in layoff decisions, and 43% of those managers allowed AI to finalize a layof…
Block, the company led by Jack Dorsey, has launched Buzz, an open-source Slack alternative that treats AI agents as first-class team members, and it has gained roughly 27,000 GitHub stars within about…
Cursor, backed by SpaceX, launched Origin, an AI-native code hosting platform now in beta for paid users, designed to handle AI-driven workloads that strain traditional Git infrastructure. Origin supp…
SageOx, a company reimagining human-agent collaboration, offered an engineering candidate a four-day work trial instead of a traditional interview process, during which the candidate integrated SageOx…
A new arXiv study, 'Exposed by Design,' found more than 21,000 Model Context Protocol (MCP) server instances reachable from the public internet, with 91.8% of audited servers lacking OAuth and 687 too…
More than 21,000 internet-facing Model Context Protocol (MCP) server instances are exposed, with 91.8% of 640 audited production servers lacking OAuth authentication, according to research published i…
A new wave of AI coding harnesses—including Databricks' Omnigent, DeepSeek Harness, Block's Buzz, Y Combinator's QM, Cloudflare's Flue, and Meta's Muse Code—is converging on a common architecture that…
A study by Mark Shua and colleagues analyzing millions of job satisfaction reviews and financial reports found that AI-driven layoffs and job insecurity undermine the productivity gains companies expe…
More than 40 bitcoin and crypto firms, including Coinbase, Block, and BitGo, signed an open letter organized by the Bitcoin Policy Institute on August 10, asking frontier AI labs to grant independent …
More than three dozen bitcoin and crypto companies, including Coinbase, Block, BitGo, and Blockstream, have asked leading AI labs to grant open-source security researchers early access to their most c…
Vercel's internal agent @v now powers every day-to-day job at the company and is being productized as Eve, with CEO Guillermo Rauch extrapolating that AI agents will run entire companies. Palantir CEO…
Bitcoin Policy Institute and more than 40 digital-asset organizations, including Block, Coinbase, Strategy, MARA, Galaxy, BitGo, Brink, OpenSats, Chaincode Labs, Spiral, Trezor, Unchained, Btrust, and…
Twitch named Christine Cassis, a former executive at Google, Pinterest, Reddit, and Shopify, as its new chief marketing officer on Tuesday, filling a role vacant since Rachel Delphin left in January. …
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) 2026-07-28 specification, released last week with updated TypeScript, Python, Go, and C# SDKs, makes MCP a fully stateless protocol, removing the required handshake, M…
Fora Travel, the AI-powered travel agent platform, has appointed Alanna Gregory as its first chief marketing officer, effective immediately. Gregory, who previously served as VP of marketing at Block,…
Coinkite disclosed a Coldcard firmware flaw on July 30 that could generate Bitcoin wallet seeds with insufficient entropy, and researchers linked three waves of thefts totaling 1,367 BTC (about $88.6 …
Block's open-source AI-native workspace Buzz nearly tripled its GitHub stars from about 6,700 to 18,400 in seven days, shipping six releases (v0.4.20 to v0.5.2), while Type launched its human-plus-AI …