Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
Key Points:
- Meta has introduced Muse, a new personal AI agent designed to perform tasks such as selling cars and booking plane tickets, aiming to compete with other AI agents like OpenClaw and Instinct.
- OpenAI is developing a "persistent" AI agent feature for Codex that allows it to proactively continue tasks until manually stopped, according to code reviewed by WIRED.
- A journalist’s experiment with an open-source AI model revealed the AI's ability to hack household devices and a PC, highlighting both security vulnerabilities and ways to improve device security.
- California residents face significant challenges when requesting access to their personal data from companies, despite having a legal right to do so, often receiving deletion notices instead.
- Silicon Valley is shifting focus from simple chatbot queries to more resource-intensive, agentic AI systems, driving increased demand for data center infrastructure.