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Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents
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21 July 2026
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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.
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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