AXIOS (Ina Fried) - 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 navigating the web. - The model first took off in coding and other professional work. Now it's spilling into the far more intimate terrain of everyday life. The intrigue: OpenAI is expected to enter the market soon after hiring the creator of…