Block Inc. has open-sourced Berd, a desktop application for working with AI agents across projects, skills, tools, and models, designed to give agents distinctive visual identities to make them more a…
Amplitude, the AI analytics platform serving over 4,700 customers including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square, is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its UI Foundations team with a sal…
Google has added new agentic capabilities to its Gemini-powered Ask Maps assistant in Google Maps, enabling multi-step tasks such as ordering food for pickup, checking hotel availability, and receivin…
Google has expanded its conversational Ask Maps AI in Google Maps with agentic capabilities, including autonomous food ordering via Square and Toast integrations in the U.S., Gmail-powered personal in…
Google has launched 'agentic' food ordering in Google Maps' Ask Maps feature, powered by Gemini, which can add items to a cart via Square and Toast with Uber Eats support coming soon, but users must s…
Yelp's AI-powered phone service, Yelp Host, can now handle conversational food ordering by connecting directly to restaurant point-of-sale systems like Toast or Square, the company announced. The expa…
Block, the parent company of Square and Cash App founded by Jack Dorsey, has launched Buzz, an open-source collaboration platform built on the Nostr protocol that enables humans and AI agents to work …
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'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…
Block has launched Builderbot, a suite of AI-native tools that orchestrates multiple AI agents across its entire codebase to automate coding tasks. The tool executes over 200,000 operations daily and …
Block Inc. CEO Jack Dorsey co-authored an essay arguing that AI makes middle management obsolete, as the company cuts 40% of its workforce. The new model replaces managers with individual contributors…
Jack Dorsey's Block revealed that its internal AI engineering system, Builderbot, now accounts for 15% of all production code changes at the company. The system, built on Block's open-source framework…
Block open-sourced Goose, an AI agent that scaled to 60% of Block's ~12,000 employees across 15 job profiles including engineering, sales, and product management. The key to adoption was a YAML-based …
Arc, a voice AI startup founded by Square and Cash App veterans, has raised $10.76 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to power drive-thru ordering and business optimization. The compan…