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Mem Agent now integrates with iMessage, WhatsApp, Email, and Slack, proactively reaching out to users to follow up on context and unfinished tasks.
Building an AI assistant that lives in iMessage without an interface reveals challenges with latency, acknowledgment, discoverability, and response length. A two-model pattern with a fast cheap pass for acknowledgment and a slow expensive pass for actual work solves the trust issue.
The author reflects on three weeks of using an AI agent in iMessage, arguing that its ability to handle mundane, boring tasks is ultimately more valuable than any flashy, impressive capabilities.
Scarlett is an AI co-worker that integrates with Slack and iMessage to assist with tasks.
Lux is an AI assistant that works via iMessage/SMS without requiring an app or login, enabling users to text it for tasks like research, writing, and reminders.
A full-time SWE built an AI assistant that works via iMessage/SMS, activating a private AWS server per user to perform tasks like building apps, making websites, and planning vacations. It's free for testing.
AI agents are powerful but not yet integrated into everyday life, which often happens in group chats. Jarvie, an AI assistant for iMessage group chats, has raised $8.3M seed funding from a16z, Base10 Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Hermes Agent v0.17.0 now allows chatting via iMessage without needing a Mac. A quick setup video is provided.
Hermes Agent v0.17.0 adds standalone iMessage support without Mac relay, with faster response times than Telegram, and enables seamless communication.
a16z's Justine Moore released a new map of the AI assistant landscape in iMessage, arguing that the next battleground for consumer AI is text messaging, not standalone apps.
Ryan Zhu announces a partnership with NousResearch to enable iMessage connectivity on any OS, allowing personal assistants to access iMessage and unlock new experiences.
Hermes Agent by Nous Research can now be used via iMessage through Photon's gateway setup.
Toyo is an executive assistant that operates within iMessage and can call your phone, aimed at streamlining scheduling and communication.
Apple has approved Poke, a third-party AI agent, for use in the iPhone's Messages app, enabling an AI chatbot within iMessage for the first time via the Messages for Business framework.
Poke, an AI agent startup by The Interaction Company of California, has become the first third-party AI agent approved to operate on Apple's Messages for Business platform, enabling iMessage-based interactions and introducing a per-user revenue model for Apple. The announcement comes just before Apple's WWDC 2026, where further AI and Siri updates are expected.
Introducing Caltext, an open-source calorie tracking tool built for iMessage, leveraging GPT-4.1 vision and a modern tech stack including Bun, Turborepo, Hono, and Vercel.
Chert is an iMessage infrastructure API that enables developers to build and deploy AI-powered messaging at scale, positioning itself as 'Twilio for iMessage' with real blue-bubble delivery, read receipts, and webhooks.
A user criticizes MacOS for not supporting SMS/RCS messaging through iMessage and for poor AI performance on CPUs, questioning the rationale for buying a Mac.
Chert lets you build AI agents that text customers via iMessage.