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Meta launches personal AI agent, Muse, emphasizes safety and privacy

AP News · · International · AI Governance

Meta has launched a personal AI agent called Muse, with the company emphasizing safety and privacy as part of the product's rollout.

Why this matters: Meta calling something private does not make it private. This is a company built on turning personal data into ad revenue, and now it wants to run a personal AI agent, meaning something that knows your habits, questions, and decisions in real time. The word 'emphasizes' in that headline is doing a lot of work. What matters is not what Meta says about privacy. It is what data Muse collects, where it goes, and whether users have any real control over it.

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