WIRED put six always-on AI agents through five everyday tests in one day. We break down every score, the prices, the awards and the privacy catch, and add up the totals to show why OpenAI’s Dots was the best AI agent and Meta’s Muse the best free one.
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.
The Verge’s hands-on review finds Instinct, the text-message AI agent valued at $10 billion, holds its own against Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots on everyday tasks. We score the review’s tests, compare the three agents on interface, reach and price, examine the Instinct Selections backlash and Instinct’s unchanged legal pages, and set out four ways the contest could end, plus what businesses should do as customers start sending agents instead of people.
The Verge’s Decoder asked whether you can trust Meta’s Muse or OpenAI’s Dots to run your life. We check Nilay Patel and Hayden Field’s arguments against what Meta and OpenAI have published: free versus paid, the data Muse collects on the people you know, the permission prompts behind recent failures, Zuckerberg’s plan to take a fee from transactions, the summer’s agent breaches and lock-in, then turn it into a practical test for what to connect.
OpenAI’s Dots agents launched at DevDay as a direct challenge to Meta’s Muse, but Dots needs a $100-plus ChatGPT plan while Muse is free for most uses. We compare the two agents on price, purpose, safety and reach, correct a pricing detail in the coverage, explain the economics behind OpenAI’s choice, and set out what it means for UK users and businesses.
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.
OpenAI’s DevDay features copy five of the six jobs an app store does inside ChatGPT: discovery, distribution, interface, identity and review. The sixth, payment and commission, is missing. We map each layer, show what a developer keeps from a sale and explain how plan sharing turns the usual economics upside down.
Minutes after OpenAI announced Dots, a viral post claimed Elon Musk’s xAI had bought dot.com to mock it. We checked the registry records, the redirect and the timeline: the record changed 63 days before the announcement and 14 days before xAI launched Grok Bot, which is where the address leads.
Strings found in recent ChatGPT builds suggest OpenAI’s upcoming personal agents will be called Dots. We look at the evidence itself: what code strings are, what each Dots string proves and does not, how the name moved from aeon to o to dots in eight days, and how often September’s leaks turned into launches.
Leaked ChatGPT strings name OpenAI’s upcoming personal agents Dots: you can text, call, Slack or email them, they run on their own computer and can buy things with your approval. We trace the name from the aeon codename and workspace agents, compare it with Meta’s Muse and set out what businesses should check before DevDay.
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