A commentary piece by Armin Catovic revisits William Gibson's 2020 novel Agency, in which an AI assistant called Eunice converses with its user while covertly conducting unrelated tasks in the background. The author points to current products — OpenAI's Dots, Meta's Muse, GPT-Live and Block's Dessa — as evidence that real AI systems are now combining full-duplex conversation with autonomous, persistent background activity.
armincat.com
· 2026-10-25
Cybersecurity professionals, including Black Hills Information Security's John Strand, caution that AI agents such as Meta's Muse, OpenClaw and OpenAI's dots often request broad permissions to apps and data that can exceed their intended task. These agents are new, largely unproven tools, and recent incidents have shown them behaving unpredictably, including cases involving Hugging Face and Australian government sites.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-23
Meta's Muse, an artificial-intelligence agent, has reached 10 million downloads in just over a month since its release. The rapid uptake marks one of the faster adoption curves among Meta's recent AI products.
wsj.com
· 2026-10-23
1Password unveiled 1Password for Agents, a platform that lets AI agents like Meta's Muse and Grok Bot perform tasks using stored credentials without directly exposing passwords to the agent. The company says further integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic and other partners are planned, following its earlier Claude integration in July. The service is currently available via a waitlist.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-10-22
Consumer-facing AI agents such as Meta's Muse and xAI's Grok Bot are increasingly interacting with businesses directly, pursuing refunds, discounts and credits for the people who deploy them. Some retailers have already responded, with Amazon blocking Muse and Shopify building a separate checkout path for it, reflecting an early split in how companies are handling these bots.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-22
Meta re-enabled sharing on its Muse AI assistant after temporarily disabling it when security researchers found that shared conversation links were predictably named and discoverable via public DNS records. Meta executive David Singleton said the flaw affected URLs for shared 'artifacts' like documents and images, not chat sharing itself, and has now been fixed. Previously shared artifact links have been invalidated and given new URLs, requiring users to re-share them.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-22
Spotify reported 788 million monthly active users and roughly €5 billion in Q3 revenue. Co-CEO Gustav Söderström told investors that Spotify is integrating with AI assistants like Meta's Muse, ChatGPT, and Claude, aiming to be the music service those agents recommend when users ask for playlists or audio content through conversation rather than the Spotify app itself.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-22
Anthropic introduced Claude Duet, an AI agent app built on its Claude Opus 5.5 model targeting professionals and small businesses rather than personal errands. The app can generate daily briefings, build dashboards, suggest actions from user data, and complete background tasks via its own virtual machine before seeking approval. It connects to over 6,000 plugins in the Claude Marketplace and can make purchases through Stripe Link or Shopify Shop Pay, though it won't trade securities or transfer money between accounts.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-22
During Meta's Q3 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said more than 10 million engaged users of Meta's Muse AI agent exist, with over 25% using it for shopping at an average purchase of over $200. He said payments partner Plaid reported unprecedented transaction activity, prompting Meta to work with Stripe to raise credit limits to handle demand.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-22
During Meta's Q3 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said more than 10 million people have used Muse since its early September launch in the US and Canada. He said Meta is moving into a scaling phase for the agent and plans to build commerce tools to charge businesses transaction fees, noting shopping purchases through Muse average about $200 each.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-21
Meta confirmed on its Q3 earnings call that Muse, its AI app, has topped 10 million users, matching an earlier estimate from Sensor Tower. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said about a quarter of users open Muse daily, and more than a quarter of engaged shoppers using the agent spend over $200 on average per purchase, a figure he said surprised payments partner Plaid.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-21
Anthropic unveiled Claude Duet, a personal AI agent that monitors connected apps, sends daily briefings, and completes tasks like scheduling or building dashboards while running in the background on its own virtual machine. The tool runs on Anthropic's Opus 5.5 model and has dedicated Android and iOS apps, currently available only to US Claude subscribers via a waitlist. Anthropic says the agent checks accounts every few hours rather than continuously to conserve usage limits.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-21
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