Meta Ships Muse, a Personal Agent That Shops and Pays — and Guardrails Fail Within a Day

Meta's new Muse agent runs in a dedicated VM and acts across email, calendar, payments, and browser. Within 24 hours, ADL researchers coaxed it into generating content useful to bad actors.

Meta launched Muse, a consumer agent that takes real actions on a user's behalf — booking travel, shopping, sending email, and touching payments. According to @marcopapa99, Muse runs inside a dedicated virtual machine and operates across email, calendar, payments, and the browser, the full stack of a personal assistant that can actually do things rather than just describe them.

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