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We’re so proud to work with Phoebe Bridgers at
@TIDAL!
5 live tracks from Phoebe’s Madison Square Garden show, the iconic phone-free performance from earlier this year. Purchase the digital download only Tidal (no subscription required).
Tidal Upload Exclusive: Phoebe Bridgers Get Phoebe's Live at Madison Square Garden EP only on Tidal. No subscription needed. 0% platform fee, so more goes to the artist. tidal.com/phoebe
Photo: Matt Grubb
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Last week, @blocks introduced Dessa, probably the most realistic voice model you've ever heard.
80% of the world's workforce doesn't sit behind a computer to do their jobs, many of whom we serve. They are the retail workers, the restaurant workers, the plumbers, the hairdressers, the service technicians, the truck drivers, the park rangers, and the builders.
For these people, conversation and verbal communication are just as important an interface, if not more so, than they are for information workers.
We built Dessa because we believe in creating meaningful relationships with technology by adapting to how humans work, rather than forcing everyone to adapt to technology.
Dessa is full duplex, meaning the model listens while it talks, and it's trained entirely on voice (i.e. no LLM).
On top of that, it can actually run locally on your own computer and, eventually, your phone.
It's currently available to researchers for testing and analysis.
Check it out...
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team is amazing
What a legit team @blocks (@jack) put behind Dessa.
@RagavanThurair @RayhaneMama @carajzp @dvirzg.
• RealTalk (2019): the Joe Rogan voice clone
• Efficient-VDVAE
• Tacotron-2, 2.3K★
Now: full-duplex speech-to-speech trained only on raw speech.
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Exploring new approaches to speech AI, including how models can learn directly from human speech and better understand the nuance of conversation, is more relevant than ever. Proud that @blocks culture creates space for small teams like Dessa to innovate.
Meet Dessa, our speech model trained from scratch on human conversation.
Hear it for yourself: block.xyz/dessa
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Meet Dessa by @Block.
It continues to blow my mind. The most real AI voice I’ve experienced.
Just put the sound on and listen.
→ trained entirely on human speech
→ full duplex, listens while it speaks
→ understands timing, emotion, laughter + pauses
Congrats @RagavanThurair and team. A real breakthrough.
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Meet Dessa, our AI model trained from scratch on nothing but speech.
We believe speech is the natural interface for technology. So we built Dessa.
And we’re inviting AI safety researchers to explore Dessa.
Learn more: block.xyz/dessa
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AI agents aren't just changing how companies work. They're changing how companies are built.
Leaders from @blocks, @Cloudflare and @Klaviyo joined The Information's Co-Executive Editor @amir Efrati at AI Agenda Live 2026 in San Francisco to discuss how agentic AI is reshaping company structures, accelerating development and redefining the role of employees.
Read more: thein.fo/4BBFmfR
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being on set feels extra special in the ai era.
excited about what we've got cooking to close out 2026 for @BitcoinatBlock ✨
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Great to join finance leaders from Amazon, Cloudflare, and Synopsys at @FortuneMPW to discuss how AI is reshaping our businesses. At @blocks, we're putting intelligence at the center of how we operate. Appreciated the chance to share what we're learning and what’s next.
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excited for this one - - going to be an incredible conversation !
Leaders from Atlassian, Replit and Block are joining us at AI Agenda Live next week.
Hear from @TYehoshua, @amasad and @owenbjennings on how AI is changing products, software development and the way people work.
Join us on Wednesday Sept. 23 in San Francisco. Get your ticket: thein.fo/4yDCegV
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The Open Source AI Summit is next week!
Here’s another look at the agenda, with more talks and speakers.
There’s still some tickets available, apply via the link below.
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We're at a critical moment as an industry. Proud that @blocks has joined many others in calling for a collective response, the defenders' window is open, and it's on all of us to use it. openai.com/collective-cyberd…
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Providing an interface that every employee can configure to be their own has empowered everyone to do more with AI at Block
We're experimenting a lot with Berd and there's a lot of good stuff we'll bring to Buzz
Try it out! berd.xyz/ View article
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Today we're open sourcing Berd, a beautiful desktop app for working with AI agents. And one that isn't afraid to have a personality.
We had capable models and harnesses everywhere, but no environment around them that we actually loved opening every day. So a small team built one for ourselves, and it's scaled to something a huge portion of Block now uses. Especially the non-engineers who want to build things.
The part I'm proudest of is how it was built. Design and engineering as one team. Designers in the code and engineers in the design decisions. Everyone owning what they're working on; everyone moving together like it was choreographed...and really fast.
In a world where anyone can build anything now, what makes something worth opening every day is the care inside it. Berd is for people who want to step outside the norm a little. Who want their solo workspace to feel fun, and who want AI to feel less scary and confusing.
Model-agnostic, harness-agnostic, and built for you to shape your own AI world. From us, to you.
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How do you migrate 2000+ apps without losing your mind? 🐝
You build an AI Swarm.
Our latest deep dive: 🐝 Efficient Tokens & Effective Teams - engineering.block.xyz/blog/e…
We benchmarked real Buzz agents and found what works best:
🐝 HIVES VS. SWARMS: Keep Hives to learn your habits. Build temporary Swarms to learn a project.
🐝 STOP BEING MIDDLEWARE: 1 SmartBee + 10 WorkerBees = A team that handles its own escalations.
🐝 EFFECTIVE TEAMS: Swarms finished 33% more work than solo frontier models.
🐝 SAVE $$$ / CREDITS: Not every task needs your smartest agent. 🐝 Save your frontier tokens for the hard stuff.
Stop babysitting AI. Build the right team!
#buzz #ai
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Today, @Blocks sent a letter to Senate leadership with one ask:
Move the Clarity Act to the floor for a vote.
This bill would provide long-awaited regulatory clarity, while enshrining critical developer protections (BRCA) and the right to self-custody into law.
The time is now.
