Facebook parent Meta has introduced an AI assistant designed to access a user’s smartphone apps to carry out actions such as sending emails, booking travel or monitoring security feeds, as it seeks to bring in revenues from its massive spending on AI infrastructure.
The Muse assistant, internally known as Hatch, works similarly to the open-source tool OpenClaw, which typically operates on a desktop computer and has led some people paying to remove it amid concerns as to the sensitive data and high-level permissions to which it necessarily has access.
Muse is to initially be made available in the US only via a stand-alone app or via WhatsApp, with plans to eventually make it available via Meta’s smart glasses.
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