The tech battle to build your AI assistant

AxiosSeptember 20, 2026en

The long-promised personal AI assistant is finally arriving, with a suddenly crowded field of agents offering to run pieces of your everyday life. Why it matters: For years, tech's "personal assistants" were little more than voice-controlled search boxes. Rapid advances in AI are finally giving them the memory, judgment and autonomy to act on our behalf. Catch up fast: Chatbots answer questions. AI agents can actually do things — shopping, making calls, booking tickets, managing calendars and navigating the web. The model first took off in coding and other professional work. Now it's spilling into the far more intimate terrain of everyday life. The intrigue: OpenAI is expected to enter the m

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