April 09 2026 - Text AI Agents, Brand Studio & Is AGI Here?Text AI Agents, Brand Studio & Is AGI Here?

A rapid AI news roundup: Poke aims to make AI agents as easy as texting, Stability AI unveils Brand Studio for brand-consistent imagery, a Muckrack study finds 25% of chatbot citations trace to journalism, and Databricks’ Matei Zaharia provocatively claims AGI is already here.