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Meta has introduced Muse, a personalized AI agent that operates on users' devices to perform tasks like sending emails, ordering groceries, and negotiating bills on their behalf. According to the report, Muse is so effective at mimicking human behavior that websites struggle to distinguish it from an actual human user.
Meta has quietly released Waddle World, an app combining a Tamagotchi-style virtual pet with AI, on iOS and Android in the Philippines, as spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. The app lets users hatch and care for a pixel pet, journal their day via text or voice, play short mini-games, and receive weekly AI-generated summaries, with Meta explicitly stating it is not a chatbot or productivity tool and restricting it to users 18 and older.
Meta has quietly launched Waddle World, a 16-bit style app featuring a virtual pet that chats with users and draws doodles based on conversations, described in its store listing as a daily journal disguised as a pet game. The app is currently free but restricted to adults in the Philippines, according to its Apple and Play Store listings spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. Meta has also released a separate AI fashion app called Style Sketch, reportedly limited to Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.
Axios and several other news outlets are producing content designed to be consumed by AI agents rather than human readers directly, including AI-optimized feeds and articles structured for agents to repackage into personalized summaries. Axios chief revenue officer Jacquelyn Cameron says the shift reflects a changing media ecosystem where search traffic is shrinking and hyperpersonalized AI consumption is rising. Other publishers, like Condé Nast, have signed licensing deals with AI platforms, while The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft over alleged unauthorized use of its content.
A WIRED software reporter ran a day-long comparison of six always-on AI agents installed on an iPhone: Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots, Instinct, Anthropic's Claude Duet, Google's Gemini Spark and xAI's Grok Bot. The agents vary widely in price and access, from Meta's free Muse app to OpenAI's $100-a-month Dots, with Claude Duet only released as a wait-listed preview the night before testing.
Nvidia confirmed a $3 billion investment in Meta's stock offering, a day after Meta said it would raise $95 billion (later revised to $97.5 billion) to fund AI spending. The two companies said they will deepen collaboration on Meta's Muse AI models, aiming to improve training and inference performance while cutting running costs. Meta also plans to expand use of Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems, Vera CPUs, Spectrum-X networking and BlueField-4 technology.
Nvidia will invest $3 billion as part of Meta Platforms' equity offering, according to the report. The move accompanies a broader expansion of the two companies' partnership around Meta's AI system Muse.
A CNET writer used Meta's AI assistant Muse to automatically search Facebook Marketplace for an ottoman, air purifier and humidifier within set price ranges and locations. Instead of a one-time search, Muse set up a recurring task that rescans listings every four hours and surfaces matching items, including a specific air purifier brand the writer wanted.
Meta announced plans to raise $95 billion through equity offerings to fund its AI infrastructure and superintelligence efforts, starting with $35 billion in underwritten public equity followed by $60 billion via an at-the-market program. The funds will support AI initiatives including its apps, the Muse AI agent, and data center expansion, alongside operating cash flow, debt, and partnerships. Shares rose 1.6% in premarket trading following the news.
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.
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.
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.