Block’s new Apache 2.0 agent workspace Berd works across models and harnesses, stores conversation history locally

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Aug 18, 2026, 7:23 pm180 ptsTrendingTop
Block, the technology company founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that owns Square, Cash App and the music streaming service Tidal, is open-sourcing Berd, a desktop application it originally built to give its own employees a single environment for working with AI agents across different models, tools and…

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