Slack announced today that is acquiring the popular ASTRO app, an email client with heavy AI integration. Slack has already removed the ASTRO app from the Google Play Store, and will permanently ...

While unexpected, the purchase of Astro by Slack isn’t as weird as it seems. One of Slack’s goals is to see its messenger channels usurp email as a business communication method of choice. Astro’s ...

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Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. It may seem curious for Slack, the giant chat app with the goal of killing email, ...

If there’s one source of technological frustration at work, it’s email. Getting a job done often still relies on sending chains of messages back and forth to the extent that it would be nice to have ...

Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Astro is the latest email app to add a built-in calendar so that you can flip ...