AI Weekly Malaysia

Instinct, a stealth AI personal assistant from San Francisco-based Spear Street Technology led by former Sierra research scientist Noah Shinn, is in private testing and connects deeply to users' email, messaging, calendar, device audio, location, and screen. Testers praise its capabilities but its Terms of Service grant a 'perpetual and irrevocable' license to access, use, store, reproduce, transmit, display, publish, distribute, and modify user materials—including for training its AI models.

Why: If you are building or adopting AI agents that connect to email, calendars, messaging, and device sensors, scrutinize the data licensing terms before granting access. Instinct's ToS language—perpetual, irrevocable, including model training—is a concrete example of how broad agent access can become a data rights giveaway. Founders shipping agent products should decide now what their own ToS says about user data and training, because users and press are already circulating screenshots of overly broad clauses.