Bluesky's Attie goes from bot to open research tool

Bluesky rolled out an update to Attie, its AI assistant, turning it into something you can actually use to dig into conversations across the AT Protocol. Instead of just answering a single question, it now pulls together news, trends, and what people are saying on Bluesky and other apps that speak the same language.

The AT Protocol is the open network Bluesky sits on — think of it as the plumbing under the social feed. By making Attie work across those apps, the company is treating the protocol like a searchable commons rather than a walled garden. That matters because the old social feeds were designed to keep you scrolling. This is the opposite: it's built to answer a question and let you go.

Why this matters for us: if you've been tired of algorithms feeding you outrage, this is one of those moves that quietly puts the search back in social.