Personal agents dominate Machine Earning summit: 40% of digital work time within a year, Town CEO predicts
illscience · x · 2026-10-02
Personal agents and agentic commerce dominated Newcomer's Machine Earning AI Summit, which coincided with OpenAI launching its personal assistant Dots. Town CEO Jean-Denis Greze predicts assistants will handle 40% of digital work time within a year and 90% in five years, though he calls the consumer assistant business "a market to zero" since regular users rarely pay for software. Takeaways circulating afterward: vertical agents in finance remain undercompeted, computer use unlocks consumer fintech ambitions, and Opus 5.5 may matter as much for games/entertainment as Opus 4.5 did for code. Attendees agreed enthusiasm is high but consumer trust in AI financial decisions is still early.
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