We gave a personal agent one task at a test noodle bar and recorded every step: finding the company, signing in on its own page, approving the exact terms of the change, and asking the restaurant's own AI agent a question. With screenshots of each step.
Meta, OpenAI, Google, xAI and the startup Instinct have all launched personal agents: AI that remembers you, runs on its own computer and acts for you with your approval. What they are, how they differ from chatbots, and how companies can work with them.