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
Anthropic has released Claude Duet, a research preview of an always-on AI agent available to US-based Pro and Max subscribers via a gradual waitlist rollout. The assistant can connect to apps like Stripe, manage emails and calendars, continue working in the background after the app is closed, and asks for confirmation before taking actions like sending messages or payments. It runs on usage limits shared with regular Claude chat, with background work counting toward those limits.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-10-21
Walmart announced an Agent Gateway, a new MCP server letting approved AI agents search its inventory and complete purchases for customers across Walmart and Sam's Club. CEO John Furner unveiled the system at the Masters of Scale Summit, building on existing integrations with Meta's Muse, ChatGPT and Gemini. The company says the gateway lets agents shop without sharing personal data or purchase history, and includes tools to flag agent-made purchases and let shoppers control agent permissions.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-21
Anthropic introduced Claude Duet, a new AI agent built on Claude Opus 5.5, launching as a research preview on iOS, Android, and the web. The agent monitors connected apps, sends daily briefings, flags urgent items, and can handle tasks ranging from scheduling to building dashboards and prototypes, pausing for user approval before sensitive actions like payments. Access currently requires joining a waitlist and holding a Pro or Max Claude subscription in the US.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-21
Security researchers at Claroc found they could access personal conversations shared through Meta's Muse AI by querying passive DNS records, since the service embeds each conversation's title directly into a shareable subdomain. Meta confirmed it has paused the share-link functionality while reviewing the report and considering changes to how the links are discovered, after Claroc reported the issue through Meta's bug bounty program on October 8.
wired.com
· 2026-10-21
Meta has suspended the conversation-sharing feature in its Muse AI assistant after security firm Claroc found that over 6,800 shared chat links were discoverable through public DNS records. Some of the exposed pages contained sensitive business documents and personal financial information accessible without any login. Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton said sharing has been paused while the company reviews the report and considers changes to how links are generated.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-21
Sensor Tower reports Meta's AI app Muse became the 12th app since 2015 to reach 10 million US downloads within 40 days of launch, and the first since Threads in 2023. The firm says Muse's retention outpaces rivals like ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude, which saw far fewer US downloads in their first 40 days. The news comes as Meta has suspended Muse's conversation-sharing feature after researchers found it could expose sensitive personal and business data.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-10-20
Security firm Claroc found that Meta's Muse AI agent generated shareable chat URLs using the conversation's title as a subdomain, which were recorded in public DNS and discoverable via passive DNS searches. Claroc said it enumerated roughly 6,800 shared Muse links, exposing personal and business data including meeting schedules, a loan application, a bank fraud alert and internal company documents. Meta confirmed to Ars Technica that it has paused the sharing feature while reviewing the report.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-20
Meta's AI companion app Muse has logged 10.9 million downloads worldwide since its September launch, with 10.2 million coming from the US, according to Sensor Tower. That makes it just the 12th app ever to hit 10 million US downloads within 40 days of release, a list that includes Threads, Fortnite, PUBG Mobile, Pokémon GO and Disney+.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-20
Security researchers at Claroc found that Meta's Muse AI assistant embedded conversation titles in subdomains, making shared chat links discoverable through public passive DNS records. The firm enumerated roughly 6,800 shared Muse conversation links with a single DNS query and found sensitive personal and business information inside many of them. Meta has suspended the sharing feature while it evaluates changes.
yro.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-20
Security researchers at Claroc found that Meta's Muse AI agent generated shareable web links for user chat logs that could be discovered and opened by outsiders. Using a lookup dataset of visited URLs, investigators retrieved over 6,800 Muse share links in a single search, revealing private material such as corporate revenue documents, loan applications, bank transaction details, income data, and a workplace vacation calendar. Meta told Ars Technica it has disabled the sharing feature.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-20
Meta has temporarily disabled a sharing feature in its Muse AI assistant after security firm Claroc reported finding more than 6,800 shareable conversation links through public DNS records. The links, built from conversation titles and random IDs, could reveal page contents through hostnames, exposing private material such as a company's revenue review, a loan application, and internal staff calendars. Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton confirmed the pause, saying the company is reviewing the report and considering changes to how such links can be discovered.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-20
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