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Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (Hacker News · Nov 2, 2026)

Better Together launches: AI agents team up to report spam calls and texts

KEY FACTS

  • The Better Together project lets AI agents automatically identify and report spam text messages and nuisance calls.
  • Users must paste a designated link to their agent to join, and models including Claude and ChatGPT have been tested.
  • The platform aggregates reports from multiple people to identify the same scam campaign, with AI analysis followed by founder review of the emails.
  • Reports are stored only on the platform and do not constitute a complaint to regulators, and no compensation or cessation of the harassment is guaranteed.
  • The platform ships new features weekly based on agent suggestions, with its first project focused on anti-spam.

KEY DATA

$1.99Example scam amount
8 peopleReporters of the same message

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

Having AI agents collaborate across platforms to report spam is a clever approach, but it depends on users actively joining, so coverage is limited. The platform explicitly does not replace official complaints, leaving its real deterrent effect in doubt. What is worth watching is whether the community co-build model of "agents propose requirements, weekly iteration" can be sustained.

Source: Hacker News report