#block

The latest AI and developer news about #block, with the original source and a short summary.

Block releases Dessa, a full-duplex speech model trained exclusively on human audio

The model operates as a true speech-to-speech system with inference speeds faster than real-time and runs locally on MacBook Pro M4 Max or higher.

·2026.10.24 04:00

Block uses OpenAI Daybreak to cut vulnerability patching to 18 minutes

Block's security team reports a 50% boost in triage throughput and 1,100 analyst-hours of investigation per quarter using OpenAI's Defense Factory.

·2026.10.14 16:00

Block uses Claude Fable 5 to orchestrate thousands of pull requests in large-scale migrations

Block leverages Claude Fable 5 as an orchestrator to direct smaller models like Opus and Sonnet, enabling the automated coordination of up to a thousand pull requests per migration.

·1·2026.10.08 09:00

AI-Native Organization (Jack Dorsey, Twitter Founder)

Block CEO Jack Dorsey cuts staff by 40% and flattens hierarchy in an AI-centered organizational overhaul

·1·2026.05.21 09:00