Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Block, announced Buzz, a new open-source group chat platform for teams and AI agents, on Tuesday. Built by Block, Buzz aims to challenge Slack and GitHub by merg…
Block open-sourced Buzz, a workspace platform that fuses team chat, Git hosting, CI, and AI agents into a self-hosted Nostr relay where both humans and agents authenticate via cryptographic keypairs i…
Block, the company led by Jack Dorsey, launched Buzz, an open source group chat and collaboration platform designed to let employees and AI agents work together in the same workspace, aiming to reduce…
Block is launching Buzz, an open-source workspace that combines team chat, AI agents and Git hosting, CEO Jack Dorsey announced on X on July 21st. The platform, built around a self-hostable Nostr rela…
Block launched Buzz on July 21 as a free, open-source workspace where people and AI agents share chat channels, code repositories, and automated workflows. The Nostr-based system gives agents separate…
About 82% of the 156,975 tech jobs eliminated globally in the first half of 2026 came from US companies, according to a new report from TradingPlatforms, a UK-based research firm. Almost half of the c…
CNBC's Jim Cramer said Wednesday that companies must provide 'cold hard return facts' proving artificial intelligence investments are paying off, warning that without tangible revenue gains or cost sa…
The open-source agent framework goose, built at Block and hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, can run fully offline on an NVIDIA DGX Spark with 128 GB of unified memory, us…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a recent interview that the more AI is used, the more companies will need to hire, arguing that AI agents create new jobs rather than eliminate them. Huang dismissed AI…
Equinix CEO Adaire Fox-Martin confirmed that approximately 60% of the company's largest contracts now involve AI-related workloads, as the data center operator invests heavily in AI infrastructure. In…
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said the bank has cut 30% to 40% of jobs in some departments due to AI, with most affected employees offered other roles within the company. Dimon made the disclosure du…
A new CNBC survey shows a majority of U.S. workers support requiring AI companies to transfer equity to a public wealth fund, driven by over 150,000 tech layoffs in 2026 attributed to AI. The proposal…
Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in November 2024 as an open standard that lets AI models connect to external tools and data without custom integrations. By early 2025, OpenAI and G…
Mentions of AI disruption on earnings calls surged 310% to a record 780 in the first half of 2026, according to Deutsche Bank. Major tech companies including Block, Oracle, Amazon, Coinbase, Cloudflar…
In 2026, over 150,000 tech workers have been laid off across 363 events, with companies explicitly citing AI as the primary driver while posting record profits. Cloudflare cut 20% of its workforce dur…
Block has designed a system called User Identity Delegation to give downstream services a clearer answer about who is making a request through an AI agent, addressing the problem of identity and autho…
Block's Square integrated ChatGPT and Claude for direct restaurant orders, allowing consumers to browse menus and place orders without marketplace fees. The AI-powered ordering system uses Square's pr…
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora warns that 90% of employees at large companies lack AI skills, creating a 'Darwinian moment' where workers must evolve or face career obsolescence. Arora is hiring …
TIDAL will strip royalties from fully AI-generated tracks starting July 15, 2026, becoming the first major streaming platform to demonetize such content. The policy, which includes automatic detection…
Tidal announced a new AI policy requiring artists to label music wholly or substantially created using AI, and banning royalties from such streams, effective July 15. The policy aims to protect authen…