Block Introduces BuilderBot, an AI agent orchestration layer

Block, co-developers of the Model Context Protocol, has released Builderbot, an orchestration layer that manages multiple agents across the Block codebase.
Communications of the ACM

From Block-Based Programming to Vibe Coding

The path from block-based programming to vibe coding represents a shift from mastering the mechanics of implementation to ...
IEEE

Automatic Switch IoT Terminal for Elastic Block-Based Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading in Behind-the-Meter Systems

Abstract: Peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading presents a promising way for consumers to share excess energy and enhance community-driven energy systems. This paper introduces an elastic energy block (EB ...
IEEE

Towards Effective and Efficient Non-Autoregressive Decoders for Conformer and LLM-Based ASR Using Block-Based Attention Mask

Abstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often rely on autoregressive (AR) Transformer decoder architectures, which limit efficient inference parallelization due to their sequential nature ...