Personal AI agents that can do everything from booking hotels to organizing your calendar are the hot new thing — risks be damned. Muse, Meta’s new AI agent, shot to the top of Apple’s App Store on Friday after launching last week. The Instinct personal AI agent, an independent startup, saw its popularity surge in
Developers are worried about AI. The creator of Claude Code has a response. On Thursday, Anthropic’s Boris Cherny posted an email a developer wrote to him on X. The email was titled: “What to do about slop?” Cherny wrote that he receives emails like this every day and that he tries to respond to as
Hardware crypto wallet maker Trezor is warning customers for the second time in as many months that one of the companies it relies on was hacked, exposing the data of Trezor’s customers to hackers. In a blog post this week, the hardware wallet maker said a cyberattack on Brevo, a marketing tech company that Trezor
Anthropic posted — and then deleted — a job listing for a salesperson tasked with selling to Meta, its AI rival and one of its largest customers. The listing, titled “Mega Account Executive, Meta,” appeared on Anthropic’s job board at a delicate moment for the companies’ relationship. Meta still spends hundreds of millions of dollars
Instinct, the buzzy new AI assistant now valued at $2.5 billion, is rolling out a new feature that will allow it to do more on its users’ behalf: it’s giving everyone Instinct email addresses. The company’s founder Noah Shinn said on Tuesday that the new email addresses let the agent create and run its own
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