The tech battle to build your AI assistant
The long-promised personal AI assistant is finally arriving, with a suddenly crowded field of agents offering to run pieces of your everyday life. Why it matters: For years, tech's "personal assistants" were little more than voice-controlled search boxes. Rapid advances in AI are finally giving them the memory, judgment and autonomy to act on our behalf. Catch up fast: Chatbots answer questions. AI agents can actually do things — shopping, making calls, booking tickets, managing calendars and n…

