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Saturday, 3 October 2026

All the AI agents that can live in your text messages

TechCrunch 1 week ago 14

Text-message-based AI agents are increasingly being packaged so people can text an assistant to remember context, connect to other apps, and carry out tasks like scheduling, research, reservations, and reminders. Instinct’s latest funding round valued the company at $10 billion after raising $1 billion in September 2026. More personal- and family-focused assistants are rolling out across iMessage/RCS, WhatsApp, Telegram, and dedicated apps, with subscriptions and added autonomy features like agent email addresses and phone-call support.

Supabase Raises $150 Million and Buys Turso for A.I. Agents

Trending Topics 1 week ago 43

Supabase raised $150 million and acquired the lightweight SQLite database company Turso to support A.I. agent use cases. The financing was led by Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and added $150 million. Supabase plans to fund employee share sellout and new A.I.-agent features while expanding coverage from Postgres databases to disposable, instant databases backed by Turso.

Meta, OpenAI and Uber Just Taught AI Agents to Talk First. What About When to Stay Quiet?

MarkTechPost 1 week ago 32 ● 41 sources

Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots, and Uber’s driver assistant launched proactive AI agents that speak first to users with booking, monitoring, or marketplace advice. OpenAI’s Dots was announced on Sept 29 as part of a new $500 monthly tier. Proactive delivery shifts the main challenge from generating answers to deciding when, where, and whether to interrupt, using decision models that predict the value of sending a message versus the cost to the user.

IBM Brings Bob to Self-Hosted and Air-Gapped Environments: Agentic Software Development Without Moving Your Code

MarkTechPost 1 week ago 3 ● 2 sources

IBM made IBM Bob’s agentic software development platform available as a generally available self-hosted deployment for on-premises, sovereign cloud, and air-gapped environments. Customers must source and license a supported model themselves, with NVIDIA Nemotron listed for self-hosted inference. This lets code and development context stay inside the customer network while only selected workloads can be routed to external models in hybrid setups.

Thinking Orbs

Product Hunt 1 week ago 23

A React component library was launched for animated AI agent status orbs, including states like thinking, searching, and compacting. It shows 27 followers on the launch page. As a result, developers can reuse these UI components as design resources for AI agent interfaces.

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