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AI automation, agents, business systems, interviews and fast-turn explainers from Radio.
Since October 26, 2026, new paid-tier Gemini API projects save Generate Content requests by default. What changed, how long logs are kept, and how to turn it off before client data goes through it.
Real 2026 prices for small-business AI automation: AI receptionists, personal AI agents, CRM automation platforms and done-for-you builds, plus what an AI phone agent costs next to a human receptionist.
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.