Security researcher Patrick Wardle disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in Meta's Muse AI agent that could let attackers redirect users' voice dictations and access tokens to a malicious server instead of Meta's own. David Singleton, head of Meta's Superintelligence Labs, confirmed the company has issued a patch, though he and Wardle disagree on whether the exploit requires prior malware on a user's machine. Meta says the MacOS Muse app has been downloaded over half a million times in its first week.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-23
Meta held its annual Connect conference, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivering a keynote covering upcoming products across smart glasses, VR headsets and AI. Coverage included expectations for a camera-free version of Meta's smart glasses, following an earlier 2026 glasses launch, as well as anticipation of a new Quest headset, with developer sessions continuing the following day.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-23
Reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong found Meta building an option to set its newer Muse agent, internally codenamed 'Impacc,' as the default assistant on smart glasses instead of Meta AI. A leaked setup screen says Muse is in beta and lists upcoming features not yet live, including Live AI, turn-by-turn navigation, Shazam song identification, Strava, and Health Connect integration. Wong separately found Meta developing 'Meta Pay for Muse,' a wallet interface supporting Meta Pay, Stripe Link, and Shop Pay.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-23
Security researchers found a zero-day vulnerability in Meta's newly released Muse AI assistant for macOS that lets any locally installed app or terminal command access the token authenticating a user's Muse account, along with a long list of undocumented settings. Amazon has begun blocking Muse on its site, and the flaw undermines macOS permission protections that Apple built to prevent unauthorized apps from reaching sensitive resources like the microphone, camera, and file system.
wired.com
· 2026-09-23
Meta has announced Petal, a new subsea cable linking France and the United States that will deliver 1 petabit per second of bandwidth, double the capacity of its existing Anjana cable. The 4,000-plus mile cable uses 48 fiber pairs in a two-core design and is being built with NEC and Sumitomo Electric Industries, with Orange supporting the French landing point. Meta expects Petal to enter service in 2029.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-23
Meta announced its Connect 2026 conference will run September 23-24, where it plans to showcase advances in AI, smart glasses and VR. The event is free to watch via livestream after registering on Meta's website or through the Meta for Developers Facebook page, with sessions starting September 23 at 7PM ET and continuing September 24 at 1PM ET.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-23
Meta tested a feature letting human contractors handle phone calls made on behalf of its Muse AI assistant, rolling it out to half its employees last week. Staff raised privacy concerns about sensitive data reaching call-center workers, and one contractor made a racist remark during a call negotiating an employee's bill. Meta has paused the human concierge feature, apologized to the affected employee, and barred the contractor from further work on its projects.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-23
Meta launched an AI agent called Muse designed to shop on users' behalf across e-commerce sites, and it quickly gained popularity. Amazon has since blocked Muse from accessing its platform, and observers have raised privacy and security concerns about the tool.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-23
Meta Superintelligence Labs product head Nat Friedman said on X that Muse, Meta's AI product, was 'heavily inspired' by the open-source OpenClaw but was 'built from scratch.' The admission followed viral claims from users, including AI app co-founder Ansh Nanda, that Muse resembled a consumer-friendly version of OpenClaw, citing shared file structures like SOUL.md.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-22
Advanced Micro Devices' stock climbed enough to push its market valuation above $1 trillion, according to reporting on the milestone. The chipmaker joins a small group of companies including Nvidia, SpaceX, and Meta that have reached the trillion-dollar threshold.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-22
Rabbit, the startup behind the widely panned R1 hardware assistant, has introduced OS3, an 'agentic operating system' that can run across a desktop browser, Telegram, or iMessage rather than requiring the original device. CEO Jesse Lyu says the R1 sold over 100,000 units with strong margins despite the harsh reviews, and now sees the software-first approach as timed to a market that has caught up to what Rabbit tried in 2024.
wired.com
· 2026-09-22
Meta has patched a serious security vulnerability found in its Muse AI assistant. The flaw could have let attackers seize control of Muse and exploit its permissions to access a user's connected apps and devices.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-09-22
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