Buzz Jack Dorsey: The Open-Source Workspace Uniting Humans, AI Agents, and Code
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Block (the company behind Square, Cash App, and other fintech products), has introduced a new platform called Buzz. Announced in July 2026, Buzz is positioned as a free, open-source collaboration workspace designed for teams of people and AI agents. It aims to reduce reliance on tools like Slack for messaging and GitHub for code hosting by bringing chat, project management, Git workflows, and agent collaboration into one shared environment. Built by Block and available at buzz.xyz, Buzz is model-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign, and open source under the Apache 2.0 license. Desktop apps are available for macOS, Windows, and Linux, with the source code hosted on GitHub at github.com/block/buzz. The platform treats AI agents as full participants rather than simple chatbots, giving them cryptographic identities so they can post messages, review code, open pull requests, and collaborate alongside humans in...