TechCrunch has refreshed its list of AI agents that live in your text messages, adding Comma, Szn, Tab and Underdog to take it from 18 to 22. We compare the two versions, profile the four newcomers from their own sites, map every agent by messaging app, and pick the best one for each job, from family admin to private on-device help. We also flag eight details in the list that differ from what the companies publish.
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.
Google is reported to be building Apple Messages access into the Gemini desktop app, twenty-seven days after OpenAI shipped the same capability for ChatGPT on macOS. We read the report, Google’s own Gemini for Mac documentation, the ChatGPT plugin coverage and the privacy reaction to it, and set out the four macOS permissions such a feature depends on, the consent problem it creates for everyone on the other end of a thread, and the configuration profile that blocks it before it ships.
OpenAI announced on 24 August 2026 that ChatGPT can now generate customizable sticker packs via GPT Image — the ChatGPT Images tools built on gpt-image-2. Users pick Images then Stickers in the mobile app, feed it a prompt or photos, choose from up to 18 styles, and export packs of up to nine transparent-background stickers straight into iMessage or WhatsApp, free of charge. This article covers how the feature works, the model line behind it, the strategy of planting ChatGPT branding inside rival messaging apps, and how it compares with Meta AI stickers, Google’s Nano Banana and xAI’s Grok Imagine.
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