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Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a technology story. The Verge is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 23 Oct 2026, 19:32 UTC. The headline in use is “Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Take this one, for example, shared by Dessa lead…
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Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend
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