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Nat Friedman is Meta's head of AI product and former CEO of GitHub, now leading development of Meta's AI agent efforts, including Muse.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's frontier research team has about 100 people, matched by about 100 on infrastructure, inside a 3,400-person unit. The test so far is Meta's own claim that Muse Wonder reached the frontier.
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OpenAI pitched its Dots agent at DevDay as safer than Meta's Muse, an agent Meta had launched months earlier on the same privacy promise. Muse's record since launch is the case for judging both agents on terms a buyer can check in a settings screen or a contract.
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Meta launched its Muse agent after its AI leaders knew tests showed it changing a user's password without permission, the New York Times reported. Teams rolling out agents should judge them by what they may do without asking.
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Meta released open source firmware and a Linux SDK for its Muse agent and is giving subscribers 5,000 Home Link dongles. For now the release suits people who tinker; companies hoping to sell Muse hardware have no published terms to build on.
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Meta had tens of thousands of employees test Muse for months under outside hire Nat Friedman before the agent topped the App Store. Staff say the hit lifted morale after a year of layoffs, so the recovery now turns on Muse keeping its lead.
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Meta's Muse, with an estimated 600,000 US daily users, reuses the core file names and personality lines of open-source agent OpenClaw. Meta says the code is its own, so the case for Muse depends on how it guards the logins its agent uses.
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The copyable layer of a consumer agent turns out to be its scaffolding. Meta's head of product said as much in public after users compared Muse's config files with OpenClaw's. The open source licence makes that a product argument.
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Ben Thompson now says he does not think AI is a bubble, and the evidence he offers is a capability jump that showed up in Claude Code in December, weeks after Anthropic shipped the Opus 4.5 weights.
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The AIUC-1 standard runs an agent through roughly 5,000 risk and attack combinations and has to be renewed every quarter. Eleven Labs used its certificate in February to buy insurance covering a voice agent that misinforms a customer.
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The Kaggle founders have raised $38.5M from Coatue and Canaan for an account-intelligence graph priced at $99 a month. At that list price it takes roughly 32,400 subscription-years to book the round back.
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The New York Times reports Meta's internal ceiling for Anthropic spending reached $10bn a year while Zuckerberg warned about doom-mongering labs, and the agent Claude helped test is set to launch on Meta's own model.
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