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Anthropic is launching Claude Duet, a feature that proactively generates daily briefings and action items by drawing on connected apps and a user's Claude memory. Users can delegate tasks like scheduling meetings, building dashboards or forecasts, and flagging relevant research, with Duet reaching out when tasks are complete or need approval.
Wabi, the startup founded by Replika creator Eugenia Kuyda, has raised $55 million in new funding at a $1.25 billion valuation, led by IVP with participation from a16z, Forerunner, and the Amazon Alexa Fund. The company recently pivoted from a prompt-based app-building tool into an AI messenger that acts as a personal agent, capable of generating mini apps for tasks like meal planning or fitness tracking.
Meta, Walmart, Stripe and other companies, alongside AI startup Sierra, are publishing an open standard called the 'personal agent protocol' to govern how AI agents interact with businesses online. Sierra co-founder Bret Taylor, who is leading the effort and chairs OpenAI, said the standard aims to help companies verify whether they're dealing with an authorized personal agent or an unapproved bot. The move follows the viral rise of Meta's agent Muse and comes amid disputes like Amazon blocking Meta and Perplexity's agents and suing Perplexity over alleged site scraping.
Meta's newly rolled out Muse AI assistant can identify and cancel consumers' recurring subscriptions, folding that function into a broader personal-assistant tool rather than a standalone subscription-management app. The launch comes as U.S. consumer subscription spending has risen sharply, with Mastercard and FT Strategies reporting 44% of consumers increased subscription spending in 2025 to an average of $1,887 annually.
Amazon has barred Meta's new Muse AI assistant from completing purchases on its e-commerce site, saying the practice would violate its terms of service. Muse, launched to strong consumer and investor response, is designed to shop across retailers, book travel, fill out forms and monitor home security cameras, and links to Shopify and Stripe for payment. Meta's stock has risen over 20% since Muse's debut, and the app briefly topped Apple's App Store above ChatGPT.