Meta says Muse was built from the ground up for privacy, and OpenAI wants Dots to set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI. We test those AI agent privacy promises against each company’s own documentation, Instinct’s revised terms, a month of Muse incidents and the UK ICO’s new scrutiny of AI agents, and set out what businesses should check before connecting an agent to their data.
Andreessen Horowitz partner Olivia Moore says almost all consumer AI is really prosumer AI. We break down her TechCrunch interview and a16z’s seventh Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps report: the new spending data, why the top 1% of payers average $903 a month, how subscriptions crowd out ads and transaction fees, what ChatGPT’s ad revenue and Instinct’s volume imply, and which consumer categories AI has still not reached.
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.
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.
DoorDash’s new AI agent lets US customers order food and groceries by texting DoorDash in Apple Messages: it knows your usual, builds group orders, sends photos and checks out in the thread. We explain how it works, what DoorDash’s Ask figures show, how it compares with Uber Eats, Instacart and Shipt, why a text agent protects DoorDash from general AI agents and what to check before you use it.
Muse, Dots and Instinct made consumer AI look hot again, but payment data says only 2% to 3% of US households pay for AI while a Menlo survey says 55% of users do. We reconcile the sources, correct a Netflix comparison that does not add up, explain why running costs are the real problem and compare how Meta, OpenAI, Instinct and Anthropic plan to make money.
Wajo has opened its Fo AI agent to the public with a free Fo Mini tier capped at 1,000 tasks a day, a free but invite-only OG Fo tier with unlimited tasks and call time, and a Pro plan priced on request. We set out what each tier includes, how to get an invite, what free does not cover, how Fo compares with Muse, Instinct and OpenClaw, and the risks to weigh first.
Instinct has raised $1 billion from Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue at a $10 billion valuation, 33 days after its Series B. We rebuild the funding timeline, work through the arithmetic of a 200-fold markup, and look at compute, Meta’s Muse, privacy and how the free agent might make money.
On 17 September 2026 two rival text-based assistants turned on outbound phone calls within hours of each other. Instinct announced Instinct Concierge, a white-glove tier that books restaurants without online reservations, joins cancellation lists and disputes bills. Meta’s Muse, nine days old, opened calls to United States businesses, rolling the beta out first to users who had asked their assistant for it. This article covers what each company shipped, the funding and download numbers behind the race, and the disclosure, authority and recourse questions neither announcement answers.
Instinct email addresses went live on 8 September 2026, and the pitch was simple enough to fit in a single post: your assistant gets its own mailbox, so it can open accounts, chase businesses and handle the admin that arrives as mail. Founder Noah Shinn announced it on X in 141 words. Seven of those […]
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