Cue wants to give your AI agent its own phone, email and wallet
Manus introduced something more interesting than another chatbot last week.
Alongside Manus 2.0, the company launched Cue, a standalone app built around personal AI agents. The idea is pretty simple: instead of you constantly telling an AI what to do, you give an agent a goal and let it handle parts of the work itself. Manus
The interesting part is what Manus gives these agents.
Each agent can have its own email address, phone number, wallet and computer environment. That means an agent can send messages, handle calls, make payments within a budget you set, and work through tasks on its own machine. Manus
And it doesn’t stop at one agent.
You can put several agents into the same group chat and give them a shared goal. One could research something, another could build a shortlist, and another could prepare the final output. You still set the direction and make the final decision. Manus
That changes the way I think about AI assistants.
We’re used to AI helping us do things.
Cue is moving toward AI that can handle things.
There’s also a human approval layer, which is important when agents can actually spend money or take actions outside the chat. Want to try Cue? It's currently in early access. You can use my invite code 8SUEW to get access.
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Manus raises $500M+ after Meta exit
AI agent startup Manus has raised more than $500 million after separating from Meta and returning to independent operations.
The round was co-led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, with existing investors including Tencent, HSG and ZhenFund also participating.
AI agents are increasingly becoming companies of their own rather than simply features inside existing software. Investors are clearly still willing to put serious money behind products that can actually perform tasks for users.
The interesting question now is less “Can AI agents do things?” and more “Which agents are actually useful enough that people keep paying for them?”
AI infrastructure is getting more complicated
Nvidia-backed startup Upscale AI launched Token Fabric today, a platform designed to connect AI chips from different suppliers inside the same data center.
The idea is to make mixed-vendor AI infrastructure easier to deploy instead of forcing customers to build separate networking systems around different chip ecosystems.
There is an enormous infrastructure layer underneath it: chips, networking, data centers, storage, power and software.
And as companies use more AI, that infrastructure problem is only getting more interesting.
A small update from my side
I’ve also been spending time on a small project..
The interesting part now isn’t just adding more features.
I’m working on making the existing pages more useful, improving the country-level coverage, tightening the SEO structure, and paying much more attention to what people actually do once they land on a page.
It’s still early, but traffic is starting to give me enough data to see which parts are worth doubling down on.
That’s probably the biggest lesson I’ve learned from building small websites:
Don’t keep adding things just because you can.
Build something.
Watch how people use it.
Then improve what they’re already using.
That’s it for today.
Build less busywork. Automate the repetitive stuff. Keep the decisions human.
Stay sharp. See you soon.