Sierra released Poppy 1.0, its standard for personal AI agents, as Shopify switched it on for every store and Meta's Muse began using it by default.
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AI agents can save you time, but an expert says decisions involving your health, wealth and privacy still need human input.
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Muse's AI can now place outbound calls to US businesses — but it's not free.
ByteDance plans a Muse-style AI assistant within weeks, Bloomberg reports, as Zhang Yiming tells staff frontier parity will take until at least 2029.
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Muse appears to be unable to browse eBay
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Users can now interact with Meta’s AI assistant through voice calls, text messages, or dictation on their Apple Watch.
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Meta is rolling out email addresses for Muse, which means you can “Add it to a thread or forward it an email, and it’ll handle the replies and follow-ups for you,” according to VP of AI products Vishal Shah. It’s coming to paid Muse subscribers in the US and Canada, Shah says. AI chief Alexandr Wang announced the feature at Connect in September.
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Meta’s AI agent now works on Apple Watch and Wear OS, the company announced today. [Media: https://www.threads.com/share/G1iaIKreB]
Meta's Muse agents continue to get new features and integrations. Spaces promises to be a new way to interact with the AI helpers.
Amazon said that the feature will roll out to millions of users in coming weeks.
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An app within an app.
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Meta's AI agent can now take calls as a customizable animated avatar, ahead of the launch of a Tamagotchi-like wearable designed to bring Muse to life.
Tech giants are betting that AI agents will play a key role in how people get things done in the future – from shopping for groceries to returning packages and planning vacations.
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Instagram has launched Edits for Mac, a free desktop video editor with a multi-track timeline, 4K exports and support for AI agents.
Alex Stamos says people give agents like Meta’s Muse and Instinct whole 1Password vaults, leaving banks facing bots with real logins.
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Each new tech product is designed to make our lives easier and keep us mindlessly entertained. Switch off: embrace discomfort – and boredom, says psychologist Carly Dober