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A reviewer tried Meta's AI agent, nicknamed Muse, by assigning it several tedious personal tasks in parallel, including chasing down accounts and making a purchase with a credit card. The agent operated by opening multiple virtual browser windows simultaneously to work through the requests.
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.
Chinese AI startup Manus is reportedly negotiating a $500 million funding round valuing it at $4 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal, after resuming operations as an independent company. Prospective backers include IDG Capital, Boyu Capital, CATL, and returning investors Tencent, HSG and Zhenfund, with the company also weighing a restructuring ahead of a possible Hong Kong IPO.
A new Colossus profile of the Zuckerberg family reveals that Priscilla Chan limits how her 11-year-old daughter Maxima can use AI tools, allowing her to vibe-code simple games and messaging apps but banning anything connected to the open internet, including a proposed dating site. The restriction comes even as Mark Zuckerberg's company Meta pushes AI products like its camera-equipped smart glasses and faces ongoing criticism over privacy failures and harmful AI-generated content on its platforms.
Meta AI has released Muse, a personified AI agent app for iPhone, with a companion Mac app added nine days later and web access at muse.ai. Users can customize the agent's name and avatar, and while the app is free with weekly usage limits, paying subscribers get expanded access. The Mac version can work across apps, files, calendar, notes, and messages, with user-controlled permissions.
A content creator using Meta's AI-integrated smart glasses secretly photographed a stranger in a Walmart, ran the image through a facial recognition tool to identify him as an author, then staged an unscripted-looking encounter praising his book on camera. The clip, which went viral, exemplifies a growing genre called 'joybait'—uplifting content engineered for views that relies on deception rather than genuine spontaneity.
Meta's Oversight Board issued decisions on two cases involving AI-generated videos of real people—one showing a Scottish politician making inflammatory remarks he never said, another mocking a menstrual health volunteer. In both instances, Meta failed to label the content as AI-generated and only acted after the Board intervened, despite user reports and appeals being automatically dismissed beforehand.
Meta is reportedly developing a new line of smart glasses, dubbed Luna, that will not include cameras, according to The Information. The devices, expected to launch in October in Clubmaster and Burbank styles, will feature six microphones and ear-facing speakers so users can talk to Meta's AI assistant via a side button, but will lack the recording capability found in Meta's Ray-Ban glasses.
According to The Information, Meta is developing a new smart glasses line called Luna that omits the camera found in its current models. The glasses will reportedly come in two styles, Clubmaster and Burbank, and feature six microphones plus ear-facing speakers for interacting with Meta's AI assistant via a side button. Meta may reveal Luna at its Connect conference on September 23-24, with shipping possibly starting in October.
According to The Information, Meta is preparing to unveil camera-less smart glasses codenamed Luna at next week's Connect event. The device would rely on six microphones and speakers to let users interact with Meta AI and a new Muse AI agent, and is expected to ship in October in Clubmaster and Burbank styles.
The Advertising Standards Authority has banned five social media adverts, all hosted on Meta platforms, that promoted AI companion and video-generation apps by objectifying and sexualising women. One ad reportedly used sexualised imagery of a girl under 18, while others encouraged users to upload photos of a 'crush' or turn images into explicit videos without consent. Meta had already taken the ads down before the ASA's ruling.
Meta introduced a new set of paid subscription plans called Meta One, expanding on the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp subscriptions it launched earlier this year. The lineup ranges from $2.99 single-app plans to bundled tiers combining app perks with AI tools, plus business-focused plans priced up to $149 a month that add features like scheduled Stories, clickable link embeds, and delegated account access.