AI Assistants

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Saturday, 24 October 2026

Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages

TechCrunch 1 hour ago 2

AI agents are increasingly being delivered through text messaging so users can delegate actions like scheduling, research, and shopping without downloading separate apps. Instinct has a $10 billion valuation after raising $1 billion in September 2026. The result is a growing set of message-based assistants with varied pricing and capabilities, including work, family, and travel agents, that operate across SMS/iMessage/RCS and connected apps.

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I sold to Visa for $2 billion. I could be on a beach right now, but I’m risking my own money to solve the problem that held my first company back

Fortune 3

The author sold Tink to Visa for $2 billion and later used that exit to fund a new platform, Freda, aimed at handling compliance problems they say slowed their company down. The article says Tink reached 700 people and operated across 19 markets before the compliance workload increasingly expanded. As a result, the author is backing AI to help founders manage nuanced, fast-changing compliance demands rather than relying on document-based or chatbot approaches.

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