Dorsey’s Block Turns AI Agents Into Real Employees

Block on Tuesday (July 21) released Buzz, an open-source collaboration platform where employees and artificial intelligence (AI) agents work side by side in the same channels. Block CEO Jack Dorsey said on X that Buzz is “model-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign and open source.” He said Block built it to cut the company’s dependence on Slack and GitHub. The launch answers a question most workplace software has not caught up with: where do digital workers sit once a company hires them?