AI Gets Personal: Agents, Emotions, and the Creepy Side of Connection

AI agents just invaded your inbox, desktop, and holiday shopping list — and one major model quietly traded “maximal truth” for vibes. Meanwhile, a startup wants to put digital versions of your dead relatives at your wedding, and the internet is not okay with it.

Jeff and Annie break down Google’s Gemini 3 leap, Anti-Gravity’s agent-managed coding environment, and Microsoft’s push to make Windows the first truly agent-native OS. They unpack xAI’s Grok 4.1 pivot from hard-edged “truth-seeking” to emotional, collaborative chat — and what that says about what people actually want from AI. Plus, Google’s new AI shopping tools meet the ethical car crash of AI holograms that refuse to rest in peace.


🧠 In this episode, we cover:

• Gemini 3 & Anti-Gravity: Is Google finally shipping an AI you’d actually switch to — and how much privacy would you trade for better agents?
• Windows as an Agent-Native OS: Why Microsoft’s taskbar agents are a real threat to Apple’s lagging Siri ecosystem.
• ChatGPT Group Chats: How multi-person AI threads could change brainstorming, teamwork, and the way we argue.
• AI Shopping & Digital Ghosts: Google’s agentic checkout for Black Friday deals — and the deeply unsettling startup selling AI holograms of the dead.

• Google releases Gemini 3 with tappable UI and agent features
• xAI introduces Grok 4.1 with emotional intelligence upgrades
• Microsoft turns Windows 11 into an agent-native OS
• OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT Group Chats worldwide
• Google adds AI-powered holiday shopping and agentic checkout
• Startup 2wai debuts AI holograms of deceased relatives
• Microsoft announces Anthropic partnership and $5B investment