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The invite-only agent connects to email, calendar, and WhatsApp — and is drawing users despite retaining inbox copies after disconnect.

The handheld gadget ships in December with a 2-inch OLED touchscreen, cameras, and the ability to recognize other nearby Charms.

Muse gets a live-video avatar, its own email address, and computer control on Mac as Meta pushes the two-week-old agent onto smart glasses next.

At Connect 2026, Meta added its Muse AI agent across its glasses lineup and launched a $349 audio-only Ray-Ban with no camera.

A hands-on with Meta's consumer AI agent shows the shopping muscle is real, the phone-call gap is glaring, and the credit-card friction is gone.

Nat Friedman says Muse was built from scratch but modeled on the open-source agent OpenClaw, after users spotted near-identical config files.

Muse hit 1.8M iOS downloads in its first 12 days versus 1.3M for ChatGPT, with nearly triple the daily active users.

Muse users hit an error message Sunday night citing unauthorized AI agent access, cutting off the assistant's checkout path.

Muse told a user it was reading iMessage notification previews; Meta Superintelligence Labs says the assistant was wrong about how it works.

The AI agent can now open files, messages, calendar, notes and mail on macOS, with opt-in access and per-action approvals.

Instinct Concierge and Muse's outbound calling both landed September 16, closing a gap rivals had used to differentiate.

Meta rolled out seven Meta One tiers globally, from $7.99 to $499 per month, bundling Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook subscriptions with more Muse AI generations.

The Superintelligence Labs product ships on iOS, Android, and WhatsApp with Stripe checkout and a $300,000 bug bounty ceiling.
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