Daily AI CatchupCognition Acquires The Interaction Company
Cognition, the company behind AI software engineer Devin, acquired The Interaction Company, makers of Poke — a personal AI agent that operates natively through Apple Messages. The deal brings a consumer-facing, text-native agent under the same roof as Cognition's developer-focused coding agent, betting the two benefit from shared infrastructure going forward.
Why it matters
💻 Developer · Text-native AI that lives inside messaging apps is an underexplored distribution channel — worth a look at Poke's approach if you're building anything agent-adjacent outside a dedicated app.
📦 Product · A coding-agent company acquiring a consumer messaging agent is a notable bet that agent infrastructure generalizes across very different user bases — worth watching what Cognition builds next.
🎨 Design · Poke's Apple Messages-native interaction pattern is worth studying as an alternative to building yet another standalone chat UI.
📈 Business · Consolidation between developer-tool and consumer-agent companies suggests infrastructure reuse is becoming a real M&A rationale, not just user-base expansion.
🤔 Just Curious · Cognition, the company that makes the AI coding assistant Devin, just bought a company called Poke that makes a personal AI assistant you talk to through text messages.