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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

Meta’s Muse mascot 'Jolly' criticized for childlike design and privacy risks

Meta’s adult-only AI assistant Muse is fronted by a cuddly mascot called Jolly; critics and youth advocates say the toy-like design may appeal to children, disarm adult users, and obscure data-collection risks. Meta says it verifies users’ ages and will offer a Muse Charm device and a ‘confidential’ virtual machine for Muse later in 2026; researchers and nonprofit groups warn the branding could still attract underage attention and reduce user scrutiny of privacy.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Meta expands Muse agent with real-time avatar, glasses, Mac and commerce integrations

At Meta Connect, the company announced a broad set of upgrades to its new personal AI agent Muse — powered by the Muse Spark multimodal model — including a Muse Realtime Avatar for live video chats (the avatar is called “Jolly”), integration with Meta’s AI smart glasses, Mac desktop agentic capabilities, a dedicated Muse email address feature coming soon, and commerce/payment connectors with partners such as Shopify, Shop Pay, Stripe and PayPal plus retail partners including Best Buy, Gap, Sephora, Walmart and Wayfair. Meta said Muse launched in early September, will run across users’ devices and accounts, and that some features should arrive “in the coming months,” while the company plans to subsidize initial token usage and later take a small fee on transactions.

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