Hark Pro's cloud browser agent handles simple errands well but struggles with logins

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Hark Pro is a personal AI agent launched by Hark Labs in San Jose, founded in late 2025 by Brett Adcock, and widely released on 6 October 2026. It hands web tasks to Handoff, a computer-use agent that runs a real browser in Hark's cloud and can work on several tasks at once. A week-long hands-on test found it completed clearly defined jobs, such as buying event tickets and archiving promotional emails. It repeatedly failed at sign-ins, including multi-factor authentication and CAPTCHA prompts, which the reviewer said forces users to double-check its work. The article also notes Canada is not named in Hark's coverage, so Canadian users must test sign-up themselves.

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