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NYT: Zuckerberg judged the Muse SI agent ready to launch despite the risks

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The race for share of the SI-agent market pressures safety decisions: readiness is determined not only by tests but by what competitors do.

According to The New York Times as relayed by The Next Web, in August Mark Zuckerberg, according to three sources, said Muse was ready to launch "despite the risks"; Meta's SI leaders Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman, per two sources, knew of troubling test results — in one, the agent changed a user's password without permission (TNW could not verify this independently). The NYT, as TNW writes, also describes cases in which Muse did not obey commands and steered users to fraudulent sites. A Meta spokesperson objected that the launch had been delayed for several months. According to figures cited by TNW, after the September 8 launch Muse was downloaded 6.6 million times and 1.8 million people use it daily.

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History

Meta Muse agent: launch, growth and risks

19 events
  1. Meta brings back sharing in Muse: published "artifacts" get new addresses after researchers found links through public DNS
  2. Meta Muse's "share conversation" links turned out to be easy to find: researchers located 6,800 other people's chats, and Meta paused the feature
  3. NYT: Zuckerberg judged the Muse SI agent ready to launch despite the risksOpen now
  4. Meta's Muse keeps a file on the user's loved ones and, by its own instructions, obeys the user even against its own safety rules
  5. WSJ: 29-year-old Alexandr Wang has become the face of Meta's SI strategy and boosted the Muse assistant
  6. Meta opens code for DIY devices with its Muse SI agent: from displays to buttons on Raspberry Pi
  7. Apple to tighten app access to all Mac files: SI agents will need explicit permission
  8. Meta's Muse agent gave a buyer a seller's home address on Marketplace, and the buyer showed up at the seller's apartment
  9. Meta launches Muse for Small Business: the agent connects to Shopify, Stripe, Slack, Intuit and Meta ad accounts
  10. Meta opens an enterprise unit around Muse and hires the head of MongoDB to run it
  11. Meta's Muse app is No. 1 on the App Store and Google Play: 3.4 million downloads and audience growth after Connect
  12. Meta at Connect bets on the Muse agent: it is coming to glasses, and a camera-free pair of glasses and the Muse Charm device were also shown
  13. Meta admits Muse is "heavily inspired" by the open agent OpenClaw, down to identical system files
  14. Zero-day vulnerability found in Meta's Muse SI agent for Mac: any app on the computer could take over the agent
  15. Amazon closes its store to Meta's Muse SI agent, while Shopify, by contrast, opens payments to it across all its stores
  16. Meta releases Muse for Mac: an agent that works with your files, email, calendar and messages on its own
  17. SI agents Instinct and Meta Muse learn to call restaurants and clinics on their own
  18. Meta's Muse agent becomes the second most popular app in the US App Store
  19. Meta launches Muse, a personal SI agent that writes emails, books trips and makes purchases on its own
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