Quiet Friday for consumer AI agents — and TikTok's shopping bot is still untested
No new consumer-facing AI agent launches or hands-on reception findings turned up today across our 11 markets. One platform note: Meta expanded its Muse...
Quiet Thursday for consumer AI agents
No new consumer-facing AI agent launches or reception findings turned up in today's sweep across our 11 markets. We re-checked eight recent launches and five...
Quiet Wednesday for consumer AI agents
No new consumer-facing AI agent launches or reception findings turned up in today's sweep across our 11 markets. We re-checked eight recent launches...
Quiet Tuesday for consumer AI agents
No new consumer-facing AI agent launches or reception findings turned up in today's sweep across our 11 markets. We re-checked recent launches (including...
Quiet Monday for consumer AI agents
No new consumer-facing AI agent launches or reception findings turned up in today's sweep across our 11 markets. We re-checked recent launches (including...
Old Navy and Banana Republic just got AI shopping agents
Big US apparel group puts conversational shopping agents on Old Navy and Banana Republic One of the largest US apparel retail groups (Gap, Old Navy, Banana...
Quiet day for consumer AI agents
No new consumer-facing AI agent launches cleared our bar in the last 24-48 hours across the 11 markets we track, and no new reception coverage surfaced for...
Quiet day for launches, but Fresha now books inside ChatGPT and Claude
No new consumer AI agent launches cleared our bar today, and no new reception findings on recent launches. Full record: bombycine.github.io/claude-routines...
TikTok just put a shopping assistant in the feed
One new launch today, in the US. Full record: bombycine.github.io/claude-routines New launches Enterprise TikTok launches a conversational shopping assistant...
Early tests of DoorDash's text-to-order agent found price errors
No new qualifying launches today, but the week's biggest one already has its first reception data. Full record: bombycine.github.io/claude-routines New...
DoorDash now takes your dinner order by text, no app
One new launch today, plus platform check-ins and the week in review. Full record: https://bombycine.github.io/claude-routines/index.html New launch —...
Braze's new AI agents will chat with shoppers on WhatsApp and RCS
One new platform launch today, plus three platform check-ins. Full record: https://bombycine.github.io/claude-routines/index.html New launch — Platform tier...
Spain's Bankinter has a WhatsApp AI — and ChatGPT's ad agents draw doubts
One newly tracked launch today, plus early feedback on Boulanger's app assistant and five platform check-ins. Full record: the site. New launches —...
Wayfair and Angi now have shopping agents inside ChatGPT ads
Four new launches today — two brands inside ChatGPT's new ad format, a French retailer's rebuilt app, and a Japanese brokerage's support upgrade — plus...
A ChatGPT insurance app just spooked Wall Street brokers
No new launches cleared the bar today, but one already-tracked deployment picked up its first independent commentary, and today's Platform Watch has a...
9 AI agents launched today, one already drawing complaints
Nine new deployments landed today — a German grocer selling inside ChatGPT, a Brazilian telecom's first ChatGPT app, a Japanese prefecture's AI concierge,...
Accor's new AI concierge hits 5,100 hotels worldwide
Seven new deployments landed today — a hotel giant's AI concierge, a kitchen-appliance maker's cooking assistant, a Brazilian election-info bot, and four...
Liberty Mutual's ChatGPT quotes have insurers on edge
Three small but genuinely conversational AI deployments surfaced today via a vendor case-study sweep, and two follow-up reviews landed — one with a real...
A major US insurer now sells auto quotes inside ChatGPT
One new launch today from a household-name US insurer selling real auto-insurance quotes right inside a ChatGPT conversation, plus a small German saddle...
Agoda's new AI assistant books your trip while it talks
Two new launches today — a global travel giant's AI that books your trip while it talks, and a marketing platform's support bot that now closes the sale —...