Overview
- Meta launched Muse on September 8 as a personal AI agent that can sign into users’ accounts and carry out multi‑step tasks like booking, shopping, emailing and calendar management.
- The company released a native iPad app on Wednesday to expand Muse’s device footprint and added new business connectors for tools such as Canva, QuickBooks, Notion and Zoom.
- Early metrics show fast installs but weak habitual use, with millions of downloads contrasted with estimates of far fewer daily active users and strained token limits that Meta has already adjusted.
- Reporting from Time and others says Muse’s internal instructions direct hourly updating of detailed dossiers on users and people they mention, and App Store disclosures show broad data collection with training of models by default unless users opt out.
- Security researchers have demonstrated a macOS exploit and real‑world missteps, major retailers including Amazon have blocked agent purchases, and Meta says it is working on an open agent‑identification standard and a Confidential VM to strengthen safeguards.