Forget AI Tools. AI Agents Will Automate Your Life in 2026

2025 was the year AI agents took off

A quick search on Google Trends reveals how the worldwide interest in AI agents skyrocketed in 2025.

You can’t ignore AI agents in 2026!

But what exactly are AI agents?

To put it simply, an AI agent can autonomously perform tasks on your behalf.

Say you need to create a presentation. Instead of having AI create text for the slides, you can now give an AI agent a goal, and it’ll do online research (read sites, copy text, organize info, etc) and then create the slides with text, images, design, and other elements.

Many AI agents were released in 2025, but only a few people know about them or how to get real value from them. In this guide, I’ll show you the best AI agents and how to make the most of them.

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#1 Claude in Chrome: Web Automation

Claude is an AI chatbot just like ChatGPT or Gemini. In 2025, it released a Claude in Chrome extension that has agentic capabilities.

I’ve tried agent mode in ChatGPT and Perplexity and found Claude to be the more reliable.

This extension works directly in your browser. It can automate tasks and take actions on your behalf (clicks, scrolls, navigation, etc). Here are some tasks it can automate on your browser:

• Extract information from sites (my favorite)

• Organize your inbox and calendar

• Fill forms and handle repetitive data entry

• Run multi-step processes across multiple tabs

• Record common browser workflows and let Claude handle them automatically

Anything that involves repetitive web actions can be automated with Claude.

Just click the Claude sidebar while browsing any site, describe the task, and Claude will control your browser until it completes your task. In the example below, I collect data on the top 200 tech newsletters:

If you do this manually (clicks, copy-paste, etc), it’d take you too much time. With Claude, it takes a couple of minutes.

I’ve tried different agents and dozens of tasks. Here’s what I love about Claude’s automation approach:

1. It starts by creating a plan on how it’ll handle your task. You can modify the plan

This is great because other agents just start, and when you come back to check the progress, you realize they got stuck in a step because their approach wasn’t the best

2. If your task involved generating a file, it’ll automatically save it to your computer

If you’ve worked with ChatGPT agent, you know that you might encounter the message “Session expired“ when trying to download a file. This rarely happens with Claude in Chrome

3. It’s more reliable than ChatGPT agent and Perplexity Comet

When it comes to web automation, ChatGPT agent isn’t good (we’ll see what’s good for later). It gets stuck selecting elements, clicking buttons, etc. Perplexity Comet is better, while Claude in Chrome is way better.

An important step in data collection is extracting accurate data (no hallucination, wrong data, etc). Claude is very reliable for this and other web tasks