Google Took 6,000 Community Contributions, Then Locked the Door Pour one out for Gemini CLI. On June 18, 2026, Google pulled the plug on free and individual paid access to its open-source AI terminal tool — the one the company launched with splashy blog posts about community and collaboration, the one that accumulated over 100,000 GitHub stars and more than 6,000 merged pull requests from...

What Buzz Actually Is — and Why It Matters On July 21, Jack Dorsey's Block launched Buzz — an open-source workspace that bundles team chat, AI agents, automated workflows, and Git hosting into a single self-hostable package. The pitch is unusually direct: reduce Block's dependence on Slack and GitHub at the same time. That is not a "Slack alternative" play. Slack alternatives are...

Jack Dorsey's Buzz Is What Happens When a CEO Actually Dogfoods His Own Thesis Jack Dorsey launched Buzz yesterday. Block's new open-source workspace combines team chat, AI agents, and a built-in Git forge into one self-hostable platform built on signed Nostr events. It's ambitious, unfinished, and exactly the kind of product you'd expect from someone who's been saying AI should reshape how...