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Matt Mullenweg announced on Automattic’s Slack that he has been reinstated as chairman and chief executive after a brief paid-leave episode during which CFO Mark Davies was installed as interim CEO. The board confirmed his return with full support, ending the short-lived attempt to remove him from leadership.
Adobe has launched “Adobe for Slack,” an integration that makes more than 70 of its creative and productivity tools—including Firefly, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Acrobat, InDesign, Lightroom, Express and Stock—accessible through Slackbot commands. The app, available to Slack Business + and Enterprise + customers, lets users generate and edit images, video, PDFs and other assets directly within Slack, requiring separate Adobe subscriptions.
Slack has introduced Slack Code, a new feature that adds dedicated, project-specific channels where teams can work alongside AI coding agents that act like teammates. The feature, available on all Slack plans, lets users create persistent AI-agent teams and colleagues simply by sending a single message, enabling continuous collaboration between humans and AI.
Jack Dorsey’s company Block has launched Buzz, an open-source collaboration workspace that merges team chat, AI agents and Git-style code hosting. Built on the Nostr protocol, the platform lets humans and AI agents share messages, code repositories, workflows and other collaborative content, positioning itself as a direct competitor to Slack.
Anthropic has introduced Claude Tag, an always-on AI teammate that lives inside Slack channels and operates autonomously. The agentic coworker learns the company’s context from Slack messages, monitors activity, and provides suggestions, with the service currently in beta for the Claude Team and Enterprise tiers.
Slack has added 30 new AI-powered features to Slackbot, the most extensive update since Salesforce’s acquisition. The overhaul includes a meeting-transcription tool and an operator mode that lets users complete multi-step tasks on the desktop. The changes are part of Salesforce’s broader AI-heavy makeover for Slack.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly condemned ICE’s tactics, saying the agency’s actions were “going too far” and urging President Trump to intervene. In an internal Slack message, Altman echoed this concern and expressed hope that the president would rise to the moment, joining other tech leaders in criticism of the immigration crackdown.