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Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks

Hark, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May, today launched its agent Hark Handoff, which can use a browser efficiently to complete tasks.

The company claims that Handoff can easily navigate websites that have no official APIs, including Target, Walmart, OpenTable, and LinkedIn. It said that the Handoff agent looks at website structure and visual data to understand if it needs to click buttons or type information.

The premise is similar to tons of browser-based agents released before. Issue a command, and it will complete tasks for you, including ordering food or coffee, booking travel tickets, filing returns, shopping for essentials, reserving a table at a restaurant, or researching on your behalf by looking at various sources.

In a video demo, the company’s CEO, Brett Adcock, showed that the assistant can take a command to build a bouquet with flowers users specify, along...

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Samsung’s cheap Fitbit Air rival just leaked again, but we still have tons of unanswered questions

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Meet the eight startups pitching at Startup Battlefield Australia

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