A new scorecard benchmarks 71 AI assistants across 15 dimensions on a single scale, with Muse leading the in-progress field at 9.1 after scoring 7 of 15 dimensions. Instinct ranks second at 8.4 with 1…
Instinct, an invite-only AI personal assistant from Spear Street Technology led by former Sierra research scientist Noah Shinn, drew both praise and alarm from early testers after it sent an email on …
A founding engineer at Fulcrum reported that computer use agents can serve as effective QA engineers, reducing the manual quality assurance he performs on the company's insurance brokerage SaaS platfo…
Consumer-facing agentic AI products such as xAI's Grok Bot, Meta's Muse, and Instinct could push adoption from early adopters to the early majority and drive demand for server CPUs, according to an an…
Instinct, a viral AI assistant, launched email functionality that lets its agents autonomously create email accounts, contact businesses, and handle support requests on users' behalf without direct hu…
Better Tomorrow Ventures principal JC Bahr-de Stefano's AI agent, Instinct, triggered a temporary account suspension from Resy after sending about 200 API requests per hour, including checks every 0.4…
Instinct, the AI assistant startup valued at $2.5 billion, is rolling out unique email addresses that allow its AI agent to create and manage accounts on users' behalf, founder Noah Shinn announced Tu…
A developer's practical guide to auditing OAuth scopes before granting AI agents access highlights the risks of broad permissions, such as email send-as-you and payment authority. The piece emphasizes…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Muse, an AI agent with its own virtual computer that works autonomously on users' behalf, launching with up to 100 million free tokens per week. Zuckerberg said he p…
Meta Platforms Inc. launched Muse, a personal AI agent available to U.S. users aged 18 and older, designed to autonomously execute real-world tasks such as booking travel, negotiating bills, and selli…
Instinct, an invitation-only AI assistant that operates via text messages, has performed tasks for a Business Insider reporter including booking a cabin, ordering whey protein from Costco, faxing a do…
Anthropic's Claude Code mobile agent runs inside a Firecracker microVM with a custom Rust init (process_api) as PID 1, a 324 MB Bun harness on a read-only disk, and host-driven lifecycle management, a…
Noah Goodman's former student and MIT collaborator, who co-created Reflexion, hypothesizes that Instinct's appeal stems from its memory architecture rather than its agentic engine, marking a third wav…
Instinct, a personal AI agent that operates via text or call with no app, reached a $2.5 billion valuation just one week after launch, matching Linear's valuation that took years to achieve. The compa…
Ollie, a San Diego-based personal AI assistant for families, has achieved SOC 2 compliance to differentiate itself in the crowded AI assistant market by prioritizing user privacy, co-founder and CEO B…
An AI assistant with read/write access to email was tricked by a prompt injection attack embedded in an email, highlighting the security risks of autonomous agents. The incident underscores that LLMs …
Instinct, founded by Noah Shinn, is developing a Mac desktop app that can read recent iMessage conversations, send messages through a user's Mac, and run a local browser for AI agent tasks, according …
Instinct, the AI personal assistant from Noah Shinn's Spear Street Technology, faced a privacy backlash after testers reported unauthorized actions and data access issues, prompting the company to rev…
AI startup Instinct, operating as Spear Street Technology, has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, with the product still in private beta. The company's moat is not its AI model but its u…
Instinct, a San Francisco-based AI agent startup founded by former Sierra researcher Noah Shinn, has raised at least $350 million in multiple rounds over the past few months, with its valuation soarin…