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AI automation, agents, business systems, interviews and fast-turn explainers from Radio.
The Zip AI crew already picked their personal AI agents. Now Brett Adcock’s Hark Pro crashes the party: a free assistant on web, iOS and Android that runs its own cloud computer, hands you one-tap Action Buttons and stores your logins in an encrypted vault. Paid tiers are $20 and $100 a month, the same ladder Meta set for Muse.
Seven personal AI agents, eight opinions and one dinner reservation. Radio’s illustrated comedy compares Muse, Grok Bots, Hermes, dots, Gemini Spark, Buzz and Instinct—with a full production notebook.
Elon Musk says SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot will use the best model for each task, starting with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5, with Midjourney and Suno next. Radio pitched it to the Zip AI crew. Nobody switched.
Grok Bot, Hermes, Dots, Gemini Spark, Buzz, Instinct and Muse all want to run your errands. Here’s how to pick a personal AI agent, told through the one agent each of our crew would keep.
Starting Tuesday, Oct 6, new Claude Cowork tasks on Pro and Max run in Anthropic’s cloud and the “Only on your computer” setting disappears. Radio and Kenji explain what still works, what needs the desktop app, and when to switch to Claude Code.
Three XPRIZEs in one week, Palmer Luckey’s new $10M animal-talk XPRIZE, Elon Musk’s orbital-compute endgame and $5M+ decided live in LA. Plus meet the five Moonshots Mates.
Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, a $500 ChatGPT plan, Sign in with ChatGPT, plugins in front of 1.2B users, and the model OpenAI pulled the day before. Every DevDay 2026 announcement, desk by desk.
SXSW opens on a Monday for the first time: March 15–21, 2027, in Austin. Live countdown, confirmed speakers, badge prices, and what each Zip AI correspondent is hunting.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 scored 1844 on real-world work. The flagship Opus 5.5 scored 1846. Half the price. Radio grabs the mic and walks the Zip AI newsroom to show what that means for media, VR, the smart home and your AI bill.
Radio previews ITEXPO 2027 in Fort Lauderdale: 33 confirmed company profiles, AI and communications trends, official links, and a little South Florida personality.