Fresh off AI layoffs, Block now wants to whack Slack with agent-human collab tool
AI and ML
Because what could be more appealing to humans than sharing virtual space with AI?
After cutting over 4,000 jobs due to AI, fintech biz Block is back with Buzz, a shared workspace where humans and bots can collaborate in ways that are more auditable, sovereign, and secure than what you can do in chat tools such as Slack.
Block's human-bot co-op is built upon a turducken of tech jargon: The platform is free and open source. It's based on the decentralized Nostr protocol, so there's cryptographic identity. It's "sovereign," a naively optimistic term readers of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash should recognize, which in this context means self-hostable. And it's intended as a replacement for Slack, GitHub, and various other communication and collaboration tools.
If "Buzz" sounds familiar, that's because Google used that name in a social media faceplant more than 15 years ago. For those who...
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