How Hark designed an AI assistant that’s actually helpful

With a chatbot interface and agentic capabilities, the new AI web application Hark Pro checks the main boxes of a mass market AI release in 2026. But unlike the tools that have already been released by the large tech companies and frontier AI labs, Hark Pro is rethinking the core premise behind the AI assistant. While many of the “everyday AI” chatbots that have rolled out over the last month focus primarily on fielding queries and using AI to follow directed tasks, Hark Pro is using...