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Consumer assistants that draw on a person's own mail, calendar and files to summarise, schedule and answer questions.
Zendesk will end the year with about $400m of AI revenue, mostly from agents paid only when they resolve a case, chief executive Tom Eggemeier told TNW. By his account, paying for outcomes is a working revenue line for AI agents and still a test for the contract as a whole.
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Brett Adcock says Hark launches this week and gives its first 100,000 sign-ups the paid plan free. What each user connects at sign-up decides how far one agent reaches into their inbox, calendar and payment accounts.
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Equs launched Equs X, a personal AI that reads only the files a user switches on, and it is free for the first 90 days. If the design works as described, switching a file off ends access outright, with no deletion request to file at a model provider.
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Instinct raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation on September 28, four times the $2.5 billion it carried a month earlier while still in early access. The mark repriced faster than any metric the company has published.
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The 5G bundle costs $2,395 with $10 a month for Verizon customers, and the Specs Intelligence app opened a waitlist today for people with no glasses at all, asking to connect the apps they already use.
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At Connect, Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang gave Meta's three-week-old agent its own email address, a face for video calls and control of desktop apps. The open question for anyone trying it is what it can reach.
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Noah Shinn gave venture capitalists the first invites to his AI assistant. Instinct now carries a $2.5bn valuation. The technique for making agents learn from their own failures is one Shinn published in 2023, before GPT-4.
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