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Rabbit Is Back, This Time With an AI Agent App

WIRED — AI · · International · AI Governance

Rabbit, the company behind the r1 AI hardware device, is shifting strategy with OS3, a new AI agent application designed to run across existing devices rather than replacing them with dedicated hardware.

Why this matters: Two years ago Rabbit sold people a pocket gadget that was supposed to make apps unnecessary. That did not work. Now they are building an app. The pivot matters because AI agents that live on your phone and act on your behalf touch a lot — your accounts, your data, your habits. The interesting question is not whether it runs on iOS or Android. It is what the agent can access, what it stores, and what happens to that data when the next pivot comes.

Who should care: General readers · AI governance · Policy

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