News Summary

• The release of Meta's Muse app earlier this month shot the tech squarely into the mainstream.
• Instinct, a personal AI agent released by an independent startup in August, has also become popular with users both in and outside the tech world.
• Some might understandably worry about AI agents exercising so much unsupervised control over their lives.
• Many of those already using the tools, however, say they are excited to have a machine do tasks for them.
• The agents work by accessing a user's emails, texts, calendar, bank account, and anything else you log into.