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X's Grok Bot can now claim a personal inbox ending in @mail.grokbot.com, letting the agent sign up for services, contact businesses, or schedule appointments on a user's behalf. Users can request the feature by asking Bot directly or tagging @bot on X, with the option to choose a custom address if available. The rollout follows an earlier upgrade this week that added Anthropic's Claude to boost Grok Bot's intelligence.
A CNET writer asked Meta's AI agent, Muse, to help confirm she was the registered owner of her Visible phone number after repeatedly receiving calls and texts meant for a previous owner named Andrew. The assistant was unable to complete the task, running into roadblocks at every step while trying to navigate Visible's chatbot-only customer service system.
Meta's AI agent Muse, which can perform tasks like processing refunds and comparing insurance options, has reportedly grown to millions of users. Fast Company's AI Decoded newsletter reports that the tool's wide-ranging access to personal data has already led to some troubling mistakes.
Meta launched Muse and OpenAI introduced Dots, two user-friendly AI agents designed for everyday tasks. Both companies aim to attract mainstream users and businesses by offering animated mascots that handle functions like reservations, email management, and specialized professional services, with Muse being free and Dots requiring payment. The release highlights a growing trend toward integrating AI into daily life, raising questions about privacy and data security.
Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Ultra, featuring an Nvidia AI chip, with a starting price of $2,599 and scheduled to ship on October 16. The device includes the world's first magnetic USB-C port and supports running various AI models locally. The company also revealed plans for Meta's Muse AI agent to be available on Windows, aiming to enhance AI capabilities on consumer devices.
Meta has released its Muse AI assistant app for iPad, a month after its initial launch on iPhone. The app, which has accumulated over 6.6 million installs since September 8, enables users to manage emails, meetings, bills, and perform tasks like booking and shopping by connecting various online accounts. The update introduces new connectors for small businesses and retail partners, expanding Muse’s capabilities to handle transactions across multiple platforms.
Meta has expanded its agentic AI assistant Muse to iPad after weeks as the top free iPhone app in the U.S. App Store. The update also adds new business-tool connectors including Asana, Canva, Dropbox, Figma, QuickBooks, GitHub, Klaviyo, Zoom, Granola and Notion, letting Muse handle tasks like marketing plans, client pitches and product pages with user approval.
Tab, a personal AI assistant accessible via text on iMessage or WhatsApp, announced Tuesday it has emerged from stealth with a $300 million valuation. The company, founded this year by Brennan Erbz, Stafford Schlitt, and Ammar Amdani, did not disclose specific funding figures but named SV Angel, Valar Ventures, and American Spirit as investors. Tab handles tasks like ordering groceries or booking travel on users' behalf using its own phone number, computer, and wallet.
OpenAI has released Dots, an always-on AI agent within ChatGPT that can browse the web and perform tasks like shopping or managing reservations, while users test early use cases such as having it help select furniture. The feature costs $100 a month, unlike Meta's comparable free agent Muse, and in early use it mistranscribed speech, got names wrong, and attempted but failed to solve captchas. OpenAI encourages linking accounts like Gmail to improve personalization, and may later allow multiple simultaneous agents.
Developers have released nanoMuse, an open-source AI agent licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later that runs across Android, iOS, macOS, Windows and Linux, plus a web console and self-hostable relay. The project, styled after Meta's Muse, performs tasks autonomously, keeps running when the app is closed, retains memory of the user, and pauses to confirm before irreversible actions. Users get a free allowance of model use on a community relay subsidized by the developer, or can supply their own API key or self-host the relay.
Meta is reportedly seeking to help define industry standards governing how autonomous AI shopping and commerce agents operate safely. The move comes amid reports that Meta's own Muse agent has faced multiple privacy and security issues in the less than a month since its launch.
Muse, Meta's new AI personal assistant, has reached No. 1 on the U.S. App Store with over 5 million downloads since launching last month. Each user's Muse runs on its own dedicated virtual machine in Meta's cloud, building a file of personal information drawn from connected accounts like email and Instagram, and users can request an export of that data. Meta says this data collection is intentional and is not shared with its advertising systems or other Muse agents.