ShortwaveReview: AI email on top of Gmail

Hark is a personal AI assistant that handles everyday errands for you: booking travel, ordering food, paying bills, scheduling appointments and doing research. It's for busy people who want to hand those chores to an assistant and only step in to approve. You connect your email, calendar and online accounts, and the home screen fills with action cards, such as a bill to pay, an appointment to book or an expense to approve, each of which you can approve with one tap. For jobs that need the web, a cloud agent called Handoff opens a browser, does the work and shows you each step as it goes. Payments still need your confirmation, and saved logins and payment details are end-to-end encrypted.

Cue by Manus gives you personal AI agents for everyday life admin, each with its own email address, phone number, wallet and computer. It's meant for busy professionals and families who want to hand off bookings, appointments, reminders and follow-ups. You create an agent in the app, or by scanning a QR code, and set permissions for what it may do on its own. From there you can forward calls to it, let it send emails and make payments, and it keeps working on a task after you log off. Several agents can work together in one group chat. Right now you need an invite code to get in.

ClawsGO Science is a research agent with its own cloud computer. Give it a task in plain English, such as "pull the 2020–2026 trials comparing two treatments, run a meta-analysis, and draft the results section," and it searches the literature, screens papers, extracts the data into CSV tables, runs the statistics in Python, draws the forest plot, and writes the draft with citations. LaTeX manuscripts compile straight to PDF. Every search, command, and file edit is logged and replayable, so you can check the work instead of trusting it. You can point it at your own files with @, switch the underlying model per task, or connect a lab GPU over SSH for heavy jobs. It's aimed at researchers, but also at consultants, policy analysts, and due-diligence teams. The cloud machine isn't billed separately; you pay for model use in credits, and plan prices sit inside the app.

Dots are always-on agents inside ChatGPT, powered by GPT-6 Astra. Each dot has its own cloud computer and browser and works toward your goals around the clock. It's aimed at professionals and teams who want an agent that takes a project and keeps going with it between conversations. You message or call your dot in ChatGPT on desktop, web or mobile, or message it in Slack and Teams. It learns from your feedback, flags what needs attention and comes back with finished work for you to review. In one early test, a dot noticed a forgotten invoice, prepared it and sent it once the user approved. Custom Rules and an Activity View decide how much it does without asking.