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Meta announced new capabilities for its Muse AI agent, including personal email addresses for completing tasks, live video calls with a customizable avatar, and computer-control features in the Muse Mac app. The company also said Muse will launch on its smart glasses in coming months, letting users discuss what they're looking at in real time.
Meta kicked off its annual Connect conference in Menlo Park, with a keynote from Mark Zuckerberg centered on AI, smart glasses and what he describes as building 'a future for everyone.' The Verge covered the event live starting at 7PM ET, with expectations of updates on Meta's Muse AI agent and newer glasses hardware.
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.
Meta's Muse assistant, which the company says can call businesses on a user's behalf to make reservations or complete tasks, is actually routing some calls to human agents rather than handling them autonomously, according to 404 Media. An internal announcement reviewed by the outlet said Muse can 'hand requests to a trained human agent, who places the call and works it through,' and the feature remains in an internal testing phase Meta calls 'dogfooding.'
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.
Meta launched an AI shopping agent called Muse designed to handle tasks like online purchases. When users tried to have Muse buy items on Amazon, they received an error message stating that access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.