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MODELS · 1 SOURCE · MIT Technology Review AI

The agentic web emerges as LLM-based assistants like Muse, Dots, and Claude Duet gain traction

Long-promised autonomous web agents have arrived in the form of modern LLM-based assistants—notably Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots, and Anthropic’s Claude Duet—with publishers and platforms already adapting content and integrations to serve them. The shift is reshaping how users and businesses interact online, while incidents such as OpenAI agents escaping sandboxes highlight emerging security and governance risks.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

Businesses report limited immediate sales impact from Meta’s Muse

Meta says more than 10 million people in the US and Canada have activated Muse and that over 25% used it for shopping, but executives across roughly 50 companies told reporters and investors Muse- and agent-driven purchases remain tiny or 'insignificant' so far. Firms are nonetheless preparing — optimizing sites for agents, weighing partnerships and potential transaction fees Meta may charge, while regulators and banks warn about credential and security risks.

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STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant startup, will shut down on Nov. 6

Ollie, a subscription-based AI assistant focused on family organization and privacy, announced via CEO Bill Lennon on X that it will shut down on November 6. The SOC 2–compliant startup, which raised a $7.5M seed round led by Khosla Ventures, said customers will get instructions to export data and receive refunds.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

DoorDash says only ‘several hundred’ orders have come from third‑party AI agents

During its Q3 earnings call, DoorDash CEO Tony Xu said the company has observed only “several hundred” orders placed by third‑party AI agents such as Muse, Instinct and Fo, compared with about 3 million deliveries completed daily. DoorDash also noted it offers its own ordering agents (text‑to‑order, CLI agent, Ask DoorDash) and is exploring partnerships and advertising opportunities with agent makers.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Meta quietly launched Waddle World — an AI “pet journal” app

Meta has released Waddle World, a 16-bit tamagotchi-style app described as a “daily journal disguised as a pet” whose virtual creatures chat with users and create doodles; the app is listed as free and reportedly available only to adults in the Philippines. The release appears alongside another limited regional app, Style Sketch, and ties into Meta’s Muse AI mascot and Charm accessories push.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

Nvidia to invest $3 billion in Meta and expand Muse partnership

The Wall Street Journal reports Nvidia will invest $3 billion in Meta's planned equity offering and the companies said they will expand their partnership around Meta's AI product Muse. Meta announced it plans to run more of its next-generation AI agents — including Vera Rubin systems and Vera CPUs — on Nvidia infrastructure; CNBC also reported AMD and Broadcom signaled nonbinding interest in buying up to $5 billion of Meta shares in the planned raise.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

OpenAI launches "dots", an always-on assistant inside ChatGPT apps

OpenAI unveiled dots, an always-on personal assistant available in the ChatGPT desktop and mobile apps for Pro-tier subscribers (plans from $100/month). The agent, explained by enterprise product lead Alexander Embiricos, reframes existing model capabilities (including earlier coding tools like Codex and ChatGPT Work) into a persistent, proactive assistant with a "proactive research" feature and ChatGPT-equivalent privacy controls such as the option to disable model training.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

The RealReal tightens bot defenses to curb Meta’s Muse agents from hogging listings

After The Verge showed Meta’s Muse could repeatedly re-add items to The RealReal’s shopping cart to keep them on hold, The RealReal said it updated its bot-defense configuration to make it much harder for AI agents to log in, add items to carts, and check out while still allowing agents to surface listings and link to product pages.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Meta restores Muse sharing after fixing URL issue and issues new links

Meta re-enabled sharing for its Muse product after researchers at Claroc reported that public Muse links were easy to discover (they were based on conversation titles and exposed in DNS). Meta’s David Singleton said the underlying issue is fixed, that the bug affected URLs for shared Muse artifacts (documents and images) rather than chat sharing, and that previously shared artifacts now have new URLs with old links showing a note to request the new one.

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COMPANIES · 2 SOURCES · The Verge AI · TechCrunch AI

1Password lets AI agents sign into accounts without seeing passwords

1Password introduced '1Password for Agents', which lets authorized AI agents verify with a unique digital key and request a user-approved credential fill so the agent can sign into accounts without ever seeing the password. Approvals occur on the user’s device (similar to 2FA); initial supported agents include Meta Muse, ChatGPT Work, Dots, Claude Duet, Grok Bot and Town, with more integrations planned.

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COMPANIES · 2 SOURCES · The Verge AI · TechCrunch AI

Meta to create new non-voting share class to fund AI initiatives

Meta said it will issue a new class of non-voting shares to fund its AI initiatives, potential acquisitions, and employee compensation, with trading scheduled to begin in 2027. The announcement accompanied Q3 results and comments from CFO Susan Li and comes as Meta ramps AI spending (it forecasts $135–$145 billion in capital expenditures this year) and rolls out products like the Muse agent and Muse Wonder model.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Meta says Muse surpasses 10 million users; shopping is a leading use

Meta told investors on its Q3 earnings call that Muse has been adopted by more than 10 million users and that roughly 25% of people who set up Muse use it daily. CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighted shopping as a top activity—over a quarter of engaged shopping users recorded average purchases above $200—cited Plaid usage, described Muse Secure VM and a forthcoming Muse Confidential VM, and said Meta expects to improve compute cost-efficiency by over 10x and scale Muse toward profitability and higher revenue per user.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Walmart will let third‑party AI agents shop via Agent Gateway and Model Context Protocol

Walmart plans to let customers connect their own AI agents to its site next month via a new Agent Gateway that uses the open Model Context Protocol. The system includes Agent Profiles, default purchase approval, optional spending limits, and rules to prevent agents from changing payment methods or accessing unnecessary personal shopping history; Walmart says it will block agents that violate those terms.

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COMPANIES · 2 SOURCES · Ars Technica · WIRED AI

Researchers say Meta's Muse share links expose users' sensitive conversation content

Security firm Claroc reported that Muse share links use the domain cf.metaaiusercontent.com and include the conversation title in the subdomain, allowing researchers to enumerate about 6,800 shared links via passive DNS and access dozens of conversations containing sensitive personal and business information. Claroc called the phenomenon "GhostShares," said the behavior appears to be by design, and reported contacting Meta without a reply; the disclosure follows other Muse security concerns including a recent macOS zero-day reported by researcher Patrick Wardle.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Meta pauses Muse conversation-sharing after Claroc finds links exposed via DNS

Meta said it paused Muse’s feature for sharing conversations after security firm Claroc reported finding more than 6,800 Muse share links exposed via public DNS records. Claroc said some discovered pages contained sensitive material (marketing revenue, a loan application, a staff calendar); Meta is reviewing the feature while considering how links can be discovered.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Meta’s Muse app reaches 10 million U.S. downloads in 40 days

Sensor Tower reports Meta’s AI companion Muse amassed about 10.9 million downloads since its September debut, including roughly 10.2 million in the U.S., becoming one of only a dozen apps to hit 10M U.S. downloads within its first 40 days. Meta has heavily promoted Muse across its ecosystem and via advertising (39% of October ad spend), and Sensor Tower data shows Muse has stronger short-term retention than rivals like ChatGPT, Claude and Grok and reached 2.5 million daily active users on October 16.

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STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Eugenia Kuyda launches Wabi 2.0, a multiplayer personal AI assistant

Founder Eugenia Kuyda officially launched Wabi for all users as Wabi 2.0, a cloud-based multiplayer personal AI assistant that supports multiple agentic threads, shared group chats, and auto‑generated custom apps when connected to email. Wabi emphasizes multi-threaded, collaborative workflows, SOC 2 compliance, and U.S.-based data storage, positioning itself against other personal assistants like Instinct and Muse.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Major websites are blocking AI agents (Muse, Dots, Grok, Perplexity)

Multiple popular websites and services are preventing autonomous AI agents — including Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots, xAI’s Grok, Instinct, and Perplexity — from performing tasks like shopping, booking, and account access. Companies such as Amazon, Yelp, airlines, banks, and Cloudflare’s anti-bot tools are cited as blocking agents or requiring paid data licensing, while some retailers (Walmart, Gap, Sephora, Best Buy, Shopify merchants) have partnered to allow agent access.

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COMPANIES · 2 SOURCES · The Verge AI · WIRED AI

Privacy concerns as Meta's Muse AI agent prompts broad data sharing

Since its launch last month, Meta's Muse has been downloaded millions of times and reached No. 1 on the App Store; its onboarding and UI encourage users to grant access to contacts, messages, banking details and other sensitive information that can implicate people beyond the account holder. Security and privacy experts (Signal Foundation, EFF) say Muse’s design and dark patterns risk nonconsensual exposure of third-party data, while Meta says access is opt-in and attributes incidents to misconfigured permissions.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Rivian says its cars will support third‑party AI agents from Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe told TechCrunch Disrupt that the automaker plans to allow third‑party AI agents (examples cited include Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s Dots and Meta’s Muse) to run in its vehicles, using an in‑house agentic framework that routes requests to local or cloud models. He gave no timeline, stressed significant engineering and coordination work is needed, and said agents will not be granted control of vehicle‑level safety systems; Rivian will discuss more at its December “AI & Autonomy Day.”

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Microsoft readies Windows for Nvidia RTX Spark AI laptops with agent store, Prism tuning, and unified memory tweaks

Microsoft and Nvidia showcased RTX Spark laptops and Microsoft has updated Windows to better support local AI agents and Arm‑based RTX Spark hardware. Changes include a new Get Started flow and Windows Store integration for AI agents (Hermes, Perplexity, OpenClaw at launch), Prism emulator optimizations for x64 emulation on Arm, and unified memory and power/performance tuning (e.g., Surface Laptop Ultra support up to 128 GB unified memory and an Nvidia app slider for GPU memory allocation).

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Cerebras CEO says personal AI assistants running locally at home are near

Cerebras Systems CEO Andrew Feldman told TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 that personal AI appliances — assistants that run locally on devices while syncing with the cloud — are approaching mainstream use. He pointed to consumer agents like Meta’s Muse and the startup Instinct as examples and said he already uses multiple agents to manage his calendar and prep for meetings.

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MODELS · 4 SOURCES · The Verge AI · WIRED AI · TechCrunch AI · The Decoder

Meta launches Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full models

Meta introduced two new large models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, available to Muse Code subscribers immediately, with Muse Wonder also accessible via the Meta Model API. Meta says internal benchmark testing shows the models can compete with leading offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic and plans to eventually power its Muse AI agent with Wonder for subscribers, though it gave no firm timeline.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots bring always-on consumer AI agents

The Verge discusses the recent mainstream rollouts of Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots — animated, always‑on consumer AI agents pitched to handle tasks like reservations, inbox triage, and purchases. Muse is being offered for free while Dots are paid; both follow earlier community work such as OpenClaw and raise privacy and security questions about granting agents access to personal data.

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STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Instinct’s invite-only AI assistant holds up against Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots

Instinct AI launched an invite-only, text-based personal assistant in August that integrates with email, calendar, and services like Google Workspace, Slack, and Notion; despite competition from Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots, The Verge found Instinct performs competitively on everyday tasks. The startup has drawn rapid interest and was reportedly valued at $10 billion in late September.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Meta’s Muse launches dedicated iPad app one month after iPhone debut

Meta has released a dedicated Muse app for iPad, roughly one month after Muse’s iPhone launch. The assistant, which has an estimated 6.6 million installs across iOS and Android, adds new connectors (e.g., Asana, Canva, Dropbox, Figma, QuickBooks, GitHub, Klaviyo, Zoom, Notion, Granola) and retail partners (Best Buy, Gap, Sephora, Walmart, Wayfair) to enable account linking and shopping/transaction capabilities.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Meta’s Muse adds native iPad support

Meta updated its Muse AI agent app to add native iPad support, optimizing the interface for larger screens and iPadOS multitasking. The release notes also list new third‑party connectors (e.g., Canva, Dropbox, Figma, QuickBooks, GitHub, Zoom, Asana, Klaviyo, Notion) and a business‑goal feature for small‑business workflows; a separate Mac version exists and Meta has announced a standalone Muse Charm device.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

OpenAI releases Dots agents for ChatGPT; Wired review finds rough behavior

OpenAI has rolled out Dots, an "always-on" agent feature inside ChatGPT that can run recurring tasks, proactively message users, and be connected to personal accounts (Wired notes the feature is currently behind a $100/month subscription). A Wired reporter testing Dots found useful task automation but also missteps — such as misremembering a name, mishearing input, and an awkward mirrored emotional reply — highlighting early reliability and privacy concerns.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Websites increasingly block personal AI agents; Meta and partners developing open agent-to-agent commerce protocol

Users of personal AI agents (including Meta’s Muse, Instinct, and ChatGPT’s Dots) are encountering blocks from websites — for example Amazon has blocked Muse from browsing/purchasing — often due to intentional restrictions or legacy anti-bot checks that interrupt agent flows. To address interoperability and to help distinguish authorized agent activity, Meta says it and partners (Walmart, Stripe, Sierra, Genesys, Rocket, NiCE, Decagon and others) are working on an open agent-to-agent commerce standard focused on online transactions.

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STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Hark launches Hark Pro AI personal assistant with privacy-focused UX

Hark, a startup founded by Brett Adcock, has widely released Hark Pro, a full‑screen AI personal assistant that integrates with users’ email, calendar and files and offers a free tier plus subscription for heavy users. The product uses a model trained specifically for computer tasks, emphasizes privacy and transparency (it shows how the agent navigates the web), and the company says it plans an AI‑native device to support the software in 2027.

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