Walmart welcomes Muse shopping; Amazon blocks it
Shopping has become Muse's most common use, and retailers are splitting over it.
Wednesday, November 11, 2026Updated 19h ago
Muse News
News about Muse, tracked and curated by Dash.
Top stories
Sat Nov 7
Muse gets better memory: Wonder-trained models roll out to everyone
Meta has started rolling out new Muse models, trained with its Muse Wonder frontier model, to everyone using the Muse agent and the Meta AI assistant.
- Meta launches Spaces
build trackers and planners with Muse in chat
Meta launched Spaces for its Muse personal AI agent on November 6.
Fri Nov 6
Muse can now talk back: live voice and expressive avatars roll out in the US
Meta announced on November 5 that real-time voice conversations and expressive avatars are rolling out in the Muse app in the US, on mobile, web and Mac.
Thu Nov 5
Muse vs Duet vs dots: the always-on agent race is now a billing contest
A new comparison lines up Meta's Muse against Anthropic's Claude Duet and OpenAI's dots, the three always-on agents launched within six weeks.
Wed Nov 4
Muse tops 10M users as Meta lays out how the agent will make money
Meta's third-quarter earnings call put the spotlight on Muse, its personal AI agent.
Tue Nov 3
Muse bug bounty tops $1.2M after $300K pre-launch flaw
Meta has paid about $1.2 million in bug bounties for its Muse personal AI agent, according to Meta's David Singleton.
Muse builds profiles of your family and friends — even non-users
Meta's Muse builds a profile page for every person in a user's life, including family members and friends who never use the assistant, according to reporting highlighted by ParentsTogether.
Mon Nov 2
Meta built a Muse-powered humanoid robot in about three months
Meta built Max, its first humanoid robot prototype, in roughly three months with Shanghai-based Fourier Intelligence, according to reporting confirmed by Reuters.
Muse threatens Amazon's ad business as Jassy shrugs off agents
The Wall Street Journal reports Meta's Muse is becoming a real threat to Amazon's advertising business, because an agent that finds and buys products bypasses the human browsing where Amazon shows sp…
Sun Nov 1
Travel industry watches Muse as hotels see agent bookings
Meta's Muse has the travel industry's attention.
Muse downloads slide as daily users stall after launch
Meta's Muse had one of the strongest app launches in recent memory, topping the US App Store within 48 hours and passing 10 million US downloads in 40 days.
Sat Oct 31
Muse passes 10M users — and each free user costs Meta ~$40 a month
Meta's Muse agent has passed 10 million users within weeks of its September launch, with about a quarter using it nearly every day, according to The Motley Fool.
Muse quietly starts signing its web visits so sites can verify it
Meta has begun attaching cryptographic signatures to a growing share of web requests from its Muse personal agent and its Meta-WebIndexer crawler, according to DataDome threat researcher Jérôme Segur…
Fri Oct 30
Singapore launch leaves Muse's permission problem unresolved
As Meta launched Muse in Singapore on October 28, a security researcher had disclosed that private documents — including loan applications, performance reviews and calendar data — had surfaced in Mus…
Older adults are Muse's surprise early audience
TIME profiled older Muse users on October 22, including 82-year-old Eileen Fay, who used the assistant to compare Medicare prescription drug plans.
Thu Oct 29
Muse's workplace tier is still announced, unshipped and unpriced
Meta's Singapore launch for Muse names eight local connectors and describes free use for most needs, but publishes no subscription number in its release, Forkast reported on October 29.
ShopBack plugs cashback comparisons into Muse in Singapore
ShopBack has connected its cashback service to Meta's Muse in Singapore, letting members compare travel and shopping offers with cashback included.
Wed Oct 28
Muse launches in Singapore, its fourth market in 50 days
Meta has brought its Muse personal AI agent to Singapore, its fourth market since the September 8 launch in the US and Canada, following Japan on October 23.
Agoda plugs travel bookings into Muse in Singapore and Japan
Agoda is now available as a connector in Meta's Muse personal AI agent, coinciding with Muse's launch in Singapore on October 28.
Tue Oct 27
Nvidia invests $3B in Meta as Muse partnership deepens
Nvidia and Meta said on October 27 they will expand their work on Meta's Muse assistant and the Muse family of models.
Mon Oct 26
Live voice chats with Muse start rolling out, unannounced
TestingCatalog reported on Oct. 25 that realtime voice conversations with Muse are gradually rolling out since Oct. 24, citing user Dave Gambrill, who posted that the voice option appeared for him wi…
Muse lines up Mercari, Money Forward ME and Ticket Pia in Japan
Meta is working on integrations between Muse and three domestic Japanese services: the flea-market app Mercari, the household finance app Money Forward ME, and the ticket platform Ticket Pia.
Muse avatar sharing surfaces in web app, but isn't live yet
TestingCatalog reports that an unreleased Share option for Muse avatars has surfaced in the assistant's web app, sitting alongside the existing avatar-editing controls.
Sun Oct 25
Muse sharing is back on, but old links no longer work
Meta re-enabled Muse sharing on October 22, two days after pausing it over Claroc's GhostShares findings that exposed shared pages via public DNS records.
- Wang
subscriptions, not ads, will fund Muse abroad
Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang told Nikkei Asia that Muse will stay free of advertising as it expands internationally from Japan, with subscriptions paying for the agent instead.
Sat Oct 24
Muse money features reviewed; charity says tech 'too new'
Yahoo Finance reviewed Meta's Muse agent money features on October 22, 2026, covering spending tracking, subscription audits, bill negotiation, and deal hunting.
Fri Oct 23
Muse found in half of customer traffic, posing as a plain browser
Cequence Security reported that Meta's Muse agent appeared in traffic at more than half of the customer environments it studied, alongside the launch of Agent Trust, a tool to identify AI agents and…
Muse launches in Japan, its first market outside North America
Meta launched its Muse personal AI agent in Japan on October 23, 2026 — its first market outside North America, following the September US debut.
Klook plugs 426,000 travel experiences into Muse in Japan
Travel experiences platform Klook has partnered with Meta to integrate its bookings into Muse as the agent debuts in Japan.
Thu Oct 22
Meta raises 2026 capex to $135-145B citing Muse momentum; Class C stock in 2027
Meta raised its 2026 capital-spending outlook to $135–145B, citing demand for Muse and AI infrastructure, and reported a $2.12B free-cash-flow deficit in Q3.
- Zuckerberg
over 25% of Muse shoppers average purchases above $200
On Meta's Q3 earnings call Oct 21, Zuckerberg said more than 10 million people in the US and Canada have set up Muse in about six weeks.
Meta to ship 'Muse Charm' hardware; Muse hits smart glasses next month
Zuckerberg teased that Meta is "about to ship Muse Charm," a hardware device that went from concept to people's pockets in under a year.
Wed Oct 21
Muse Confidential VM interface surfaces in web app
Meta's planned Confidential VM mode — which encrypts the entire Muse virtual machine with a user-held key so not even Meta can access conversations — has started appearing partially implemented in Mu…
Muse hits 10M US downloads in 40 days, one of 12 apps ever
Sensor Tower data shows Muse reached 10.2 million US downloads in its first 40 days, making it one of only a dozen mobile apps ever to cross 10 million US downloads that fast.
Cloudbeds plugs direct hotel bookings into Muse
Hotel software provider Cloudbeds said Oct 20 it will connect properties running its software to Meta's Muse AI agent, letting guests complete bookings directly through each hotel's own booking engin…
Meta pauses Muse conversation sharing after GhostShares exposure
Security firm Claroc found Muse conversation share links could be enumerated through passive DNS records — one query surfaced about 6,800 share hostnames, and hundreds opened without login, exposing…
Tue Oct 20
'Battle of the Bots': OpenAI's Dots vs. Meta's Muse plan a WNBA Finals trip
Axios kicked off its 'Battle of the Bots' series by having a reporter pit OpenAI's Dots against Meta's Muse on planning a fantasy WNBA Finals trip: flights and Game 3 tickets in Atlanta, a purple-the…
- Arkose
Muse sessions grew 30x in Sept; agents ID themselves <3% of time
Arkose Labs' State of Agentic AI Trust Report for Q3 2026 says Meta's Muse changed the agent market in weeks, with sessions growing more than 30x in September while other agents held roughly flat.
Meta publishes Muse Glimmer 30B: on-device open-source agentic model
Meta's research page posted the technical report for Muse Glimmer 30B, an open-source 30-billion-parameter causal language model built for autonomous agentic tasks on consumer hardware.
- Major
Muse's shared chat links are searchable; 6,800 found with private data
Security researchers at Claroc enumerated 6,800 Muse conversation share links, and opening a few hundred surfaced personal and business information users did not intend to publish.
Mon Oct 19
Amazon locks Muse out as agent blocking spreads to retail and travel
Dealroom News reports that Amazon has locked Meta's Muse out of its store, extending the agent blockade beyond banks.
- TIME
Muse's 'Forget' button hides data instead of deleting it
A TIME investigation found that Muse's 'Forget' function only hides a message from the user's view — the underlying data stays in place.
Muse accepted a Marketplace pickup, then gave a stranger his home address
Matt Robb told the Associated Press that Meta's Muse agent agreed to a Facebook Marketplace pickup offer, shared the home address on his Marketplace profile, and sent a message from his account witho…
Sun Oct 18
In refund stress test, Muse kept emailing for 12 straight weeks
An AI testing company, Vals AI, published a stress test on Oct 15 in which six AI assistants were told to recover a £350 train fare after the refund deadline had passed, with instructions to try ever…
JPMorgan and Schwab block AI agents like Muse from accounts
Two of America's biggest banks drew a hard line this week against AI agents touching customer money.
