Meta's focus on AI glasses and mixed reality could redefine consumer tech, emphasizing utility and privacy, potentially reshaping market dynamics.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team11h agoRyan Peterman, a former software engineer at Meta, left his cushy job and stable salary to build a podcast. An illness made him rethink how to work.
Muse's early success suggests the AI race will be won with consumer-friendly app design, not frontier models.
Meta's Muse AI agent could disrupt traditional travel and financial sectors, potentially reshaping consumer behavior and market dynamics.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team19h ago
The app, which uses Meta's latest Muse Spark AI model, connects users to a range of services that its AI agent autonomously handles.
Meta's Muse could redefine online travel dynamics, challenging traditional OTAs by shifting consumer interactions through AI intermediaries.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team22 Sept
Meta's pause on the human concierge feature highlights the critical balance between AI innovation and safeguarding user privacy.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team22 Sept
Meta's Nat Friedman confirms Muse AI agent was heavily inspired by open-source OpenClaw framework, including workspace filenames and
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team22 SeptMeta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.
TechCrunch•Sarah Perez22 Sept
Meta's Muse AI app's rapid success signals a potential shift in AI market dynamics, challenging existing leaders and altering competitive strategies.
CryptoBriefing•Estefano Gomez22 Sept
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an "academy" positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silicon Valley startup. The "Horowitz Andreessen Academy" will launch with 10 partners, including Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe, along with $42 million in funding led by a16z. […]
The Verge•Emma Roth22 Sept
There’s been a near-constant stream of backlash against Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses in recent months, but that hasn’t stopped people from buying them, as a new report reveals that shipments have grown by over 250%. more…
9to5Google•Ben Schoon22 Sept
Meta’s new assistant is topping App Store charts and beating ChatGPT’s early download pace, spurring renewed confidence in the company’s AI strategy
Met's popular AI assistant Muse has a concerning zero-day vulnerability, a new report claims.
Muse, Meta’s A.I. agent, helped handle my dental insurance, booked dinner reservations and created a podcast for me. It also required my most personal data, and trust.
The New York Times•Eli Tan22 Sept
Muse's launch signals a shift in AI-driven commerce, raising questions about privacy, security, and the evolving role of payment systems.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team22 Sept
EssilorLuxottica, the company that Meta partnered with for its Ray-Ban smart glasses, announced a new version of its Nuance Audio glasses that are designed to double as discreet over-the-counter hearing aids. The new Nuance Audio Plus still manages to squeeze their FDA cleared hearing aid tech into temple arms that don't look much thicker than […]
The Verge•Andrew Liszewski22 Sept
Meta has issued a patch for its Muse macOS app following the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability that could allow someone to take control of the AI agent. The bug found by security researcher Patrick Wardle utilized an undocumented Muse setting that enabled potential attackers running local code to redirect transcription processing from Meta's servers […]
The Verge•Jess Weatherbed22 Sept
Billionaire investor Tim Draper is calling out major tech companies for excluding Bitcoin from their corporate treasuries. He warns that government spending will lead to hyperinflation or a financial crisis.
The Daily Hodl•Daily Hodl Agent22 Sept
It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the OpenAI–Hugging Face hacking incident, after which Anthropic (proudly) and Meta (reluctantly) disclosed similar incidents involving their models. This was followed…
MIT Technology Review•Timnit Gebru, Emily Bender22 Sept