Edition No. 103 · Sat 3 Oct 2026 · Story 8 of 44

Apps, Agents, and Aggregation

Stratechery

Ben Thompson argues agents are the ultimate aggregators and that consumer agents like Meta's Muse are tech's biggest prize.

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Next in this edition

  1. 09 · StratecheryOne More Note on Agents, Meta Connect, Meta Enterprise Platform
  2. 10 · StratecheryOpenAI Dev Day, Dot and OpenAI's Product Transition, Sign In With ChatGPT
  3. 11 · DigidayMarketing's upper middle embraces AI creative production
  4. 12 · DigidaySPUR publishes AI content tracking standard, pitches OpenAI and Google to join advisory board
  5. 13 · DigidayCondé Nast, Hearst among 300 media execs to push federal 'bad bots' bill on AI scraping

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