It was not the Seattle Seahawks, but AI.com, that won the 2026 Super Bowl. Few had heard of the AI agent provider until Sunday’s American football spectacle, but now billions of people the world over are mulling the future of artificial general intelligence (AGI) in applications like messaging and stock trading. Yet the timing was strange, considering just weeks earlier Meta went nuclear against third-party AI assistants—banning all general-purpose rivals via its Business API as of January 2026. As a result, only Meta’s own AI assistant can operate within WhatsApp’s ecosystem. So, with the world’s largest messaging network out of bounds, where does this leave budding AI agent companies like AI.com? With a simple and cryptic “AGI is coming” slogan,…