Jack Dorsey's "Buzz" Gives AI Agents a Seat at the Table
Jack Dorsey wants to pull your team off Slack and into Buzz — a group chat platform where humans and AI agents share the same conversations. It's open-source, model-agnostic, and runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux. The pitch: seating AI agents in the channel next to your people changes where work actually happens. Block built it, which means this isn't a side project.
Read on TechCrunch →Forbes AI 50: $305.6B Market — 80% Controlled by Two Companies
The 2026 Forbes AI 50 reveals a staggering concentration of capital: OpenAI and Anthropic together account for $242.6 billion of the $305.6 billion raised across the entire cohort. Anthropic just crossed $30B in annualized revenue. OpenAI surpassed $25B. The foundational model market is increasingly a two-horse race — and every enterprise procurement team is effectively making a platform bet on one of two ecosystems.
Read on Forbes →The AI Market Enters Its "Application Phase"
The Motley Fool reports that the market has shifted from "picks and shovels" to applications. The critical metric is no longer "parameter count" but "workflow efficiency." Companies that can demonstrate measurable cost reduction or revenue increase through AI-driven automation are now the primary drivers of market value. Meanwhile, the "implementation gap" persists — many enterprises are stuck in perpetual piloting without integrating AI into core processes.
Read on Motley Fool →Grok Voice 2.0: 0.7-Second Latency, Real Sales Results
xAI's newest voice model thinks out loud while it talks — reasoning runs in parallel with speech. Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 answers in 0.70 seconds (down from 1.25), with transcription 1.5-2x more accurate than Deepgram and ElevenLabs. The real proof: xAI A/B tested it on Starlink's sales line, lifting conversion and calls closed without a human. At 8 cents per minute, the math for automating sales calls just changed.
Read on xAI →MCP Gets Its Biggest Rewrite — Easier Scaling for AI Integrations
The Model Context Protocol — the wiring that lets AI assistants reach your company's tools and data — just got its biggest revision since launch. The rewrite removes the sessions and startup handshakes that made scaling painful, moving state into visible "handles" (the same trick shopping carts have used for 20 years). Beta kits for Python, TypeScript, Go, and C# are out now. Final spec lands July 28.
Read on The New Stack →💡 My Take
Read this one: The Motley Fool piece on AI's "Application Phase." The hype cycle is stabilizing — the market now demands utility, energy efficiency, and architectural integration. The winners are companies moving past chatbots into "agentic workflows" where AI can autonomously execute multi-step tasks. That requires data architecture overhauls most enterprises haven't started yet.