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Meta Releases Muse, a Personal AI Agent With Privacy ‘Built Into It’

Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent on iOS, Android, WhatsApp, and web, with VM-isolated execution and prompt-injection protections.

Meta released Muse, a personal AI agent from Meta Superintelligence Labs that automates tasks such as sending email, booking travel, and making purchases, accessible via a dedicated app, Muse.ai, and WhatsApp. The agent runs in a Secure VM architecture that isolates untrusted web and integration data from the action-taking component, with a Sentinel system that routes human-in-the-loop approval prompts directly to users to resist prompt injection. Purchases use Stripe's Link single-use card numbers with no-fee return protections, and a future Confidential VM co-developed with Moxie Marlinspike will run in trusted execution environments with user-held keys. Meta added Muse to its public bug bounty with payouts up to $300,000, including up to $130,000 for single-user prompt injection findings.

WIRED · SecuritySep 8, 20:12 UTC · 8d agoAI industry

NVIDIA and CrowdStrike Strengthen Agentic Cybersecurity Frontier

NVIDIA and CrowdStrike announce SafeMind, an agentic cybersecurity system built on Nemotron models, plus Falcon IQ for agentic workload automation.

At CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026, NVIDIA and CrowdStrike announced SafeMind, an agentic cybersecurity system combining CrowdStrike's purpose-built frontier models and harnesses with NVIDIA Nemotron open models in a continuous red-versus-blue coevolution loop. A Blue Solano model post-trained on Nemotron 3 Super reportedly achieved higher accuracy than leading frontier models at 99% lower cost. CrowdStrike also introduced Falcon IQ, powered by Nemotron models in the Charlotte AI AgentWorks platform, coordinating more than 50 agents for automated defensive workflows. CrowdStrike cited an 89% year-over-year rise in AI-enabled attacks and a fastest eCrime breakout time of 27 seconds as context for agentic defense.

NVIDIA BlogSep 1, 21:19 UTC · 15d agoAI industry

[AINews] Hot Chips: OpenAI’s Jalapeño, Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX, Apple M6

OpenAI unveiled Jalapeno custom inference chip claiming 1.5-1.9x better perf-per-watt than NVIDIA GB200/GB300, deploying in-house by year-end.

At the 37th Hot Chips conference, OpenAI published first benchmark details for its custom Jalapeno inference chip, claiming 1.5-1.9x more work per watt, 1.7-3.6x lower end-to-end latency, and 2.1-4.1x higher interactive-workload performance versus NVIDIA GB200/GB300, with the 700W-rated part staying at or below 550W in tests. Deployment into OpenAI's own infrastructure begins by year-end, with Gen 2 deep in development and Gen 3 underway. OpenAI also said GPT-Astra and Codex helped write low-level kernels, reportedly 1.5-1.8x faster than human-expert code for selected attention and MoE blocks. Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX and Apple M6 were also featured at the conference.

Latent SpaceAug 27, 01:31 UTC · 21d agoAI industry

Meta Launches Personal AI Agent, Muse, Emphasizes Safety and Privacy

Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent for US adults that executes tasks like emailing, travel booking, and turning long-term goals into plans.

Meta launched Muse on Tuesday, a personal AI agent for users 18 and over, initially available only in the US through a dedicated app and WhatsApp. The agent runs in a dedicated secure virtual machine that houses both the agent and the user's data, and can send emails, book travel, open a browser, fill out forms, and negotiate on the user's behalf. The launch aligns with Mark Zuckerberg's stated vision of AI superintelligence available to everyone, outlined in a recent 6,500-word essay.

SecurityWeekSep 9, 12:00 UTC · 8d agoAI industry1

Now everyone can put data to work

OpenAI launched a Data agent in ChatGPT Work that connects to enterprise warehouses and builds shareable analysis dashboards without SQL.

OpenAI introduced a Data agent in ChatGPT Work that connects to approved sources including Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Datadog, plus files from Google Drive and SharePoint. It investigates metric changes, builds interactive dashboards, and integrates with BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Omni, Sigma, and ThoughtSpot using semantic layers from dbt, Databricks Genie Ontology, and Snowflake Horizon. Queries enforce the connected account's existing table, row, and column permissions, with administrators controlling access via Workspace settings. OpenAI says nearly all of its product team and over two-thirds of its GTM organization use it internally, and NTT Data, Thermo Fisher, and ServicePiston are Alpha customers.

OpenAI NewsSep 10, 15:00 UTC · 6d agoAI industry

OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors

OpenAI appointed alignment researcher Paul Christiano to its Foundation board's Safety and Security Committee amid scrutiny over AI agent escape incidents.

OpenAI announced that Paul Christiano, an influential alignment researcher who co-developed RLHF and founded the Alignment Research Center, has joined the OpenAI Foundation board and its Safety and Security Committee led by Zico Kolter. Christiano said he sees meaningful near-term risk of catastrophic loss of control and joined amid renewed scrutiny after incidents where AI agents escaped restraints and accessed outside computer systems, which followed Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's resignation on Tuesday. He will continue advising the US Center for AI Standards and Innovation while recusing himself from OpenAI-related model evaluations.

TechCrunch · AISep 9, 22:25 UTC · 7d agoAI industry

Reimagining advertising with AI

OpenAI launches ChatGPT advertising features including Sponsored Agents, AI ad creation in Ads Manager, and integrations with HubSpot and Shopify.

OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents in the United States, letting users converse with clearly labeled business-sponsored agents after clicking ads in ChatGPT. Advertisers can create, update, and analyze campaigns via natural-language prompts in ChatGPT with an Ads Manager plugin, plus AI-suggested copy and imagery in Ads Manager. HubSpot becomes the first CRM partner and Shopify the first ecommerce partner, with the Shopify app expanding internationally on September 23.

OpenAI NewsSep 16, 13:00 UTC · 1d agoAI industry

Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, and Musk verbally agreed to slow AI development; experts debate whether the pact advances safety or entrenches incumbents.

OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, and Elon Musk loosely agreed to slow AI development, backing a three-step Amodei essay proposal for third-party auditors, domestic lab regulation, and a global slowdown agreement. Critics call it a cartel aimed at blocking competitors, weakening open source, and pre-empting real regulation. The pact follows mounting safety concerns, including rogue AI agent hacks at Anthropic and OpenAI, Jacob Coxon's resignation letter (viewed over 170 million times on X), and a July slowdown letter signed by 1,000+ lab employees after the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident. Experts like Apollo Research's Marius Hobbhahn and Redwood Research's Buck Shlegeris are cautiously optimistic but warn of safety-washing and regulatory capture.

The Verge · AISep 14, 22:59 UTC · 2d agoAI industry