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  "id": 13078,
  "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/why-cognition-bought-poke-ai-personality-is-becoming-a-competitive-advantage",
  "title": "Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage",
  "summary": "The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.",
  "authors": "Sarah Perez",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-24T18:07:32.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-25T05:10:48.796Z",
  "source_slug": "techcrunch-ai",
  "source_name": "TechCrunch",
  "source_homepage": "https://techcrunch.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13078",
  "original_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/why-cognition-bought-poke-ai-personality-is-becoming-a-competitive-advantage",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
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