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This article focuses on Instinct, an AI agent gaining the ability to create and manage its own email accounts to execute tasks autonomously. The feature represents a significant expansion in AI agency, allowing models to handle account creation and customer service interactions without direct user credential input. This shift toward autonomous digital identity management is central to the evolution of practical AI agents rather than incidental software updates.
Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address

Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users' behalf.
Instinct, the buzzy new AI assistant now valued at $2.5 billion, is rolling out a new feature that will allow it to do more on its users’ behalf: it’s giving everyone Instinct email addresses. The company’s founder Noah Shinn said on Tuesday that the new email addresses let the agent create and run its own accounts without cluttering up users’ inboxes. Shinn said the idea is to allow…
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