
Messaging agents from Instinct and rivals work over text
Instinct is valued at $10 billion after a $1 billion round; several rivals run over SMS, iMessage, or RCS.
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Instinct is valued at $10 billion after a $1 billion round; several rivals run over SMS, iMessage, or RCS.

TechCrunch lists text-message AI agents, including Instinct, valued at $10 billion after a $1 billion round.

A hands-on finds Instinct's text-based AI agent still competitive with Muse and OpenAI's Dots.

Canada's Cyber Centre warned that AMD Instinct GPUs before ROCm 7.14 have an RCCL vulnerability.

Instinct, valued at $10 billion, now lets users add its AI agent to group chats, including friends without accounts.

TechCrunch surveys text-message AI agents, including Instinct, valued at $10 billion after a $1 billion round.

Instinct's AI agent began pushing unsolicited product recommendations, drawing backlash after a $10 billion valuation.

Instinct says over half of its agent transactions are travel bookings after a $1 billion Series C.

AI agent startup Instinct raised a $1B Series C from Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue at a $10B valuation, a month after its $2.5B round.

The Verge says Meta’s Muse closely mirrors OpenClaw, which Meta calls inspiration, not a copy.

Instinct and Meta's Muse AI agents both added phone-calling concierge features, reaching feature parity as Instinct reportedly raises at a $10 billion valuation.

Meta's agentic AI app Muse ranked No. 2 on the US iOS charts with 83,000+ downloads, trailing Threads and ChatGPT launch pace.

AI assistant Instinct, valued at $2.5 billion, is giving every agent its own email address to autonomously create accounts and complete tasks.
A teardown reveals Claude Code runs in Firecracker microVMs with a Rust PID 1 and MITM'd egress, while Instinct rents E2B sandboxes with git-based memory.
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