Meta Launches Muse AI Agent With Broad Data Access — SkimNews
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- Muse is Meta's new personal AI agent for U.S. consumers that connects to email, calendars, payments, health, fitness, smart home, dining, shopping, music, and events apps to autonomously perform everyday tasks.
- Muse can send emails, book travel, lower bills, fill out forms, convert recipe reels into grocery lists, send party invitations, and make purchases through Stripe's Link checkout, with Shopify Shop Pay and 1Password integrations coming soon.
- Muse is free with Power ($20/month) and Maximum ($100/month) subscription tiers, launching at muse.ai, on iOS and Android, and inside WhatsApp, with Meta AI glasses integration to follow.
- Meta says Muse operates in a dedicated "Muse Secure VM" with its own browser alongside a separate Sentinel security agent, and claims user conversations and data aren't shared with Meta's ads systems — though the source flags these claims as needing deeper investigation by independent security experts.
- The Muse launch comes less than two weeks after Meta agreed to an $18 billion multistate settlement over social media consumer harms, and follows a $942 million New Mexico judgment over harms to children, with thousands more school-district and personal-injury cases still pending.
Why it matters: Meta is asking users to hand over access to email, calendars, payments, and shopping — right after paying $18 billion to settle consumer-harm allegations and $942 million in a New Mexico children-safety case. Meta says Muse runs in an isolated secure VM and won't share data with ads, but the source explicitly notes those claims need independent security verification.
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