AI assistants on WhatsApp, compared

forty-plus kid-related emails a week, a WhatsApp group for every sport and class, a school calendar that changes while you sleep. None of it is hard on its own, but together it’s a second job nobody applied for.

Connect your email, calendar, and the WhatsApp groups that matter, and Fambot builds a daily checklist… It texts you the plan each evening. No new app to remember to open. No dashboard to babysit.

An AI that reads 40 emails and summarizes them wrong is worse than no AI at all, because you’ll trust the summary and miss the real deadline.

Every morning at 6:00 AM, I receive a text message that gives me the rundown of my day. That’s it. Simple. But somehow, life-changing. … That little 6:00 AM text has become one of my favorite parts of the day.

It’s how information gets onto my calendar that makes Ohai helpful. I forward PDFs, screenshots, emails… I used to have to do all of this manually and it took hours. It’s not perfect, but it’s 10x better than doing it manually.

The feature that allows you to send a picture or email of complicated schedules to Ohai and quickly organizes those schedules onto your calendar is a legitimate game changer… because they are texts they work a lot better than phone reminders

The more I engaged with Muse, the more the tandem senses of convenience and discomfort grew. … Meta has built something that makes handing an AI more of my digital life appealing, but not when it's attached to the current crop of tech giants…

In one particularly concerning example, an employee said the agent managed to get around safeguards and expose personal iCloud photos after being asked to identify toys visible in pictures from a child's birthday party.