AI assistant roundup: Claude Duet preview, Wabi 2.0, Muse hits 10M users
Weekly AI assistant and agent-economy roundup covering Anthropic's Claude Duet research preview, Wabi 2.0 group agent, and Muse passing 10M users in about 40 days.
The state of AI assistants & the agentic economy, today: October 26th, 2026 🥇 Top Stories From Last Week 🥇 > @AnthropicAI opened a research preview of Claude Duet, their take on an AI personal assistant > @Walmart launched Agent Gateway, an MCP connection that lets agents access its store, deviating from Amazon's precedent > @1Password announced 1Password for Agents, letting agents sign into sites for you without ever needing your password 📬 AI Assistant Competition Updates 📬 > @bot launched Pages for reports, memos and dashboards > @bot launched phone access to Calendar, Reminders, Contacts and more on iOS and Android > @bot .77 release most notably added the ability to make Calls (dial, hold, press keys, live transcript) > @wabi launched 2.0, a group agent that lives in one shared thread > @TownAI raised a $108M Series B at a $1B valuation for multiplayer work assistants > @wajo_ai launched Fo MCP, which lets the assistant control physical devices > @humansand launched Boba, a social-driven AI agent > @Muse crossed 10M users in ~40 days 🤖 The Agentic Economy Roundup 🤖 > @Yelp launched Check for Me, an AI phone agent that calls a restaurant for you > @Mastercard opened early access to Agent Pay for Machines after pilots with Coinbase, Cloudflare and others > @gigi_network launched as an agentic networking solution, an agent to help you find warm intros > @phoneuse_ launched as the first "phone use" product, an MCP/API that gives AI agents their own cloud phones Want this breakdown delivered straight to your inbox? Subscribe here: https://at-your-service.beehiiv.com/subscribe