
Jack Dorsey is quietly having one of the craziest weeks in tech. Weeks after India tried to block Bitchat, the offline messaging app is now the #1 social networking app in France as protests continue. No internet. No SIM card. Just encrypted Bluetooth communication between nearby phones. And at the exact same time, Dorsey’s Block just unveiled Dessa, an AI that learned to talk from human speech alone and can listen, interrupt, laugh and respond in real time. One project is rethinking how humans talk to each other. The other is rethinking how humans talk to AI. Jack Dorsey might be building something much bigger than it looks.
