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Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents

Published

21 July 2026

Topic

market

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Collaboration ToolsAI Agents

Geography

United States

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Read at techcrunch.com

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Fusion42 · 21 July 2026 · Fusion42 review

Jack Dorsey's Block has launched Buzz, a group chat platform designed to integrate human teams with AI agents, positioning itself as an open-source, model-agnostic alternative to Slack and GitHub.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Collaboration Tools and AI Agents. Wire is Fusion42's founder-focused intelligence feed: each story is connected to the funds and startups it names — every one with a live profile on Raise or Scout — so founders can follow the capital and the momentum behind the headline rather than just the headline itself. Wire analysis is one of the live surfaces Arthur reasons over.

The Wire takeaway

If you're building AI agents for enterprise use, your chat layer just got commoditised by someone with Slack-scale distribution. Block's move signals that agent orchestration happens inside collaboration tools now, not on top of them—your integration moat is gone.

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Collaboration Tools · AI Agents · ai-agents · workplace-collaboration · open-source · slack-alternative · human-ai-teams