Instinct, the $10 billion personal AI agent, can now join group chats, even with friends who have never signed up. We explain its two-agent permission model, what its terms say about non-users and group purchases, how it compares with ChatGPT and Meta AI, and practical rules for families and teams.
Google Docs can now open, edit and comment on .md files without converting them, and Drive renders them as formatted previews. We explain what changed from the 2022 and 2024 features, why Google ties it to AI agents, what formatting is lost, the admin questions it raises and what teams should do this month.
Independent researchers have traced a fleet of parallel AI agents to Tencent Cloud, where they queried Alibaba’s Amap for the entrances of parks, zoos and hospitals, leaving a trail on urlquery.net. We explain the numbers, why it is a fleet and not a swarm, why some runs called themselves Claude, how it fits the run of rogue agent incidents and what website operators should do.
Brett Adcock says Hark, the personal AI assistant from his company Hark Labs, launches this week, with a free paid plan for the first 100,000 sign-ups. We set out what Hark’s App Store listing, terms of service and development builds reveal, how its Handoff browser agent scores on benchmarks, the $700 million behind it and the risks of handing an AI agent your logins.
In a virtual-reality office study presented at NordiCHI ’26, 189 workers split real money with AI assistants and gave the female-presenting agent, Johanna, 10.25% less than the identical male-presenting Johan. We explain the University of Limerick and Zurich research, how the gap compares with UK pay data, the say-do gap behind it, earlier evidence on gendered AI, and how businesses should design and test AI personas.
TechCrunch has listed 18 AI agents that live in your text messages, from Poke and Instinct to family organisers such as Fambot and Ollie. We go through every one: where you can reach it, what it costs, who is funding it and how it handles your data, and we correct six details in the original list using the companies’ own pages. We also explain what texting agents mean for businesses whose staff connect them to work email.
Microsoft’s Windows and Surface event in San Francisco on 7 October brings Satya Nadella, Pavan Davuluri and Jensen Huang on stage. Here is what is confirmed, what is likely and what is rumour: Surface Laptop Ultra pricing, the RTX Spark chip, local AI agents and execution containers, the Dev Box and Project Zenith, Windows 11 K2 work, the fading Copilot+ brand, and what UK businesses should do now.
Meta is building an Agent Engine for its Meta Model API, called Forge internally. We read the console code behind TestingCatalog’s screenshot, explain the two feature flags and the /forge route, set out what the product could be, compare it with Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and MongoDB, and say what developers and UK businesses should do now.
Apple has warned developers that AI agents make macOS Full Disk Access far riskier and promised new controls that require very explicit user action. We explain what the permission unlocks, why agents change the risk, the Meta Muse dispute that preceded the notice, and the steps Mac users and IT teams should take now.
Shopify has launched Canvas, a desktop workspace where merchants build or redesign their online store by chatting with Sidekick, its AI agent, while seeing every page at once. We explain how Shopify Canvas works step by step, what Sidekick does behind the scenes, how it builds on Shopify’s earlier AI tools, the limits at launch, what it means for agencies, and whether your business should try it now.
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