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Your AI assistant now has its own email address. Here is what that changes.
Instinct, an AI agent valued at $2.5 billion, is giving every user a dedicated email address so the software can sign up for services, contact businesses, and chase follow-ups without ever touching your personal inbox.

Meta Launches Muse, Its First Personal AI Agent, With a Privacy Architecture Designed to Keep Your Data Away From the Web
Muse can book travel, send emails, and buy things on your behalf. Meta is betting that a new security layer called Secure VM will convince users to trust the company with that kind of access.

Why Nvidia and Stripe Are Spending Billions on 'Free' AI
Open-weight AI models, the kind anyone can download and run, are suddenly the hottest things in tech dealmaking. Here is what is driving a buying spree worth over $26 billion.

A mystery AI model called Ox Alpha just appeared online, and nobody knows who built it
A free, anonymous AI model dropped on a major distribution platform this week and immediately sparked a guessing game: is it Chinese, American, or something else entirely?

Stripe Is Reportedly Buying AI Model Marketplace OpenRouter for More Than $7 Billion
The payments giant is said to have struck a deal to acquire a startup that lets businesses shop across hundreds of AI models the way Stripe lets them shop across payment methods.