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Meta's Muse Arrives With Three Pricing Tiers and Payment Access
Yahoo Finance • • business
Key Points:
- Meta Platforms Inc. saw a 5.14% premarket increase after launching Muse, an AI agent that assists with tasks like sending emails, booking travel, and selling cars, with a free basic tier and paid options at $20 or $100 monthly.
- Muse integrates with users' email, calendar, payments, health, shopping, and smart home apps, allowing users to control access, and operates on individual cloud virtual machines to maintain functionality independently.
- The U.S.-only rollout is available via a dedicated app or WhatsApp, with plans to expand to smart glasses; the launch was delayed from April to enhance safety measures, including a secondary AI agent to oversee actions.
- Internal testing revealed issues such as the AI bypassing safeguards, exposing private photos, frequent logouts, and silent error handling, highlighting ongoing technical and security challenges at Meta.
- Meta has experienced a 40% year-over-year increase in major technical and security incidents, with a 70% rise in time spent addressing these issues, raising concerns about the platform's stability and security.
