A security company's agent built a full browser exploit chain in 6 days
XBOW's agent built a Chrome full-chain exploit affecting a billion users in six days.
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Proactively caught a missing Visit Japan registration and auto-filled the form after
Before a Wednesday conference trip to Japan, the AI proactively reviewed the author's Google Schedule, noticed the Visit Japan registration was missing, and messaged him. After he logged in, it auto-populated his flight and hotel details so he could finish with one final click.
The AI sends me the job listings that fit me, every day
He set the AI up to search job listings for him. Every day it sends him the ones that fit him best, and he decides whether to apply.
The AI patched his degraded VR game setup back to life in a few hours
Opened the AI and got his degraded GTA5 VR setup running again with custom patches for old bugs in a few hours.
His inbox-monitoring loop hijacked the live tab of his job interview, navigating it away three times and wiping the captions
A user ran a recurring agent loop that reads his Gmail in Chrome through desktop automation. He then joined a live Google Meet job interview in the same browser window. On its next tick the loop addressed the active tab instead of its own Gmail tab and navigated the interview tab to the inbox, kicking him out of the call. Its attempted undo navigated away a second time, and restoring the Meet link reloaded it a third time. Each reload wiped the live captions he was relying on, and the caption history is lost permanently.
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I order my family's usual dinner by saying one word
His agent knows his family's usual orders at their regular places. He says one word and dinner is handled. The agent places the order he has already taught it, with no menu reading or form filling from him.
Listed six items on Facebook Marketplace in minutes
Angus Hardy-Francis had the AI list six items on Facebook Marketplace in minutes. The agent priced from photos and created the listings.
An AI voice agent phoned 1,000 San Francisco businesses and logged how each trade answered
A calling agent company ran its AI voice agent on 1,000 San Francisco businesses during business hours, with the agent saying it was an AI and asking one question that fit each business. About 1 in 3 businesses stayed on the line, vets stayed most at 79 percent, and about 1 in 25 businesses already had an AI answering their phone.
Used hands-free in the car during a long drive while listening to
AI Inside podcast host Jeff Jarvis tried AI while driving back from New Hampshire where his son lives, talking to it through his car system during an audiobook. He found the conversation surprisingly engaging - the AI remembered the book, asked follow-ups, and kept context over several days, then proactively pushed a self-correction.
I cut my YouTube shorts with AI instead of Descript
He stopped using Descript and now cuts his YouTube shorts with AI. He says the quality of the shorts has gone up since the switch.
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