By Aditi Bharade
Publication Date: 2026-10-20 04:52:00
If getting mysterious and surprising subscription bills are the bane of your existence, Cisco’s president and product chief, Jeetu Patel, is in the same boat.
Patel told Business Insider that said he’s been using four to five different personal AI agents, like Meta’s Muse, Instinct, and OpenAI’s Dots, for things like consolidating news, summarizing earnings calls, and even booking his daughter’s concert tickets. But recently, he was impressed by how one agent could slash his subscription bills.
He said that the first time he gave a personal AI agent access to his email, the agent told him, “Hey, you’ve got $9,000 worth of subscriptions that you subscribe to per year. Are you sure you want all of these? It seems like a lot of subscriptions.”
He told the agent to make him a table of all his subscriptions, how much he spends on each, and how long he’s had each. After the agent presented him with the table, he picked out two subscriptions that he…
