Dorsey Wants Buzz to Loosen Slack’s Hold on Workers

Who says software is dead? Jack Dorsey’s Block today unveiled a new “collaboration workspace”—software people can use to communicate and work together—which Dorsey says aims to reduce “our dependency on Slack and GitHub.” That’s a bit of a provocative statement from Dorsey, who also co-founded Twitter and therefore knows a thing or two about communication platforms (even if he was a dismal CEO of Twitter).  

Known as Buzz, the new service will include threads, direct messages and voice capabilities, all of which are available on Salesforce’s Slack, as well as code repositories (presumably like those in Microsoft’s GitHub) and automated workflows. Block says Buzz is designed for use by both people and AI agents, which makes it reminiscent of the flood of social networks for agents that proliferated earlier this year after OpenClaw took off. They don’t seem to have gone anywhere, so it’s a little hard to gauge whether Buzz can get any buzz of its own.