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AI assistants configured to act for an individual user, handling tasks like messaging, scheduling, or device control with varying autonomy.
Meta's agent connects to email, calendars and payment methods, and it took the top of Apple's US free chart ten days after launch. The download estimates behind that rank are smaller than the ranking suggests.
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Ghost opened pre-orders for Core, a $3,499 always-on computer for personal AI agents, after an $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. It is a bet that people running agents at home will pay to skip configuring a machine they already own.
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Four early adopters told Business Insider they deleted or restricted Instinct or Meta's Muse over what the agents could reach in their accounts. Three of them still use agents, so their objection is to handing a company their inbox and logins.
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Citi forecasts more than $27 billion of revenue from Meta's Muse by 2030, about $23 billion of it from transactions. The estimate prices a personal agent as a commerce business competing with search, on the strength of 1.8 million daily users.
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Vinod Khosla is backing Wajo, a personal-agent startup claiming 10x growth since its late-September launch, on the view that trust decides the category. Wajo's own list of safeguards mixes features that work today with ones it has only announced, so the trust case has to be checked one feature at a time.
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Four early adopters told Business Insider they deleted or restricted Instinct and Meta's Muse over the account access the agents need. At least three still use agents with narrower reach. The scope of each grant is the decision to settle before anyone connects an inbox.
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Approval is what Meta describes guarding the way out of its new agent. The way in is a one-time connector grant across nine accounts, and the two published accounts of the closed test disagree on where you can get it at all.
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OpenAI, Meta and Apple launched personal AI agents within four weeks of each other, priced from free to $500 a month. Identical developer token prices from Google and OpenAI support the view that daily habits now decide the contest, though the adoption data so far is thin.
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Meta launched its personal agent Muse on Tuesday for US adults, and in the company's own description the only party who approves a connector is the person holding the account. Tailscale and Plaid are on the list.
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RuntimeWire found identifiers for Trusted Network invitations, connection reviews and safety codes in 69 public JavaScript files from Meta's Muse. The names show how two people would connect, but not what a connection may share, and that is the part agent builders need.
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PNC figures put paying AI consumers at 2.2% in May, averaging $31 a month, while Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots and a $10bn Instinct revive personal assistants. Model upgrades have barely moved either figure, so the teams shipping these agents need revenue that does not depend on a monthly fee.
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Instinct raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation, four times the price TechCrunch reported for its August round. Its agent works through users' own screens and accounts, so permission and recovery are Instinct's to engineer before any app maker is asked.
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Anduril marketing chief Jeff Miller gave AI agents access to his bank details and email, then used them to clear six months of expense reports. The approval he keeps for himself covers what an agent sends or buys, so a team policy modelled on it still has to decide what the agent may read.
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Meta put its Muse assistant on every pair of glasses and headset it showed at Connect, led by $1,300 VR Glasses due this spring. For a team buyer the lineup is separate devices for separate jobs. The evidence on how people use Meta's hardware is still thin.
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Instinct, an AI agent Business Insider staff tested, paid 8 pounds for the wrong Oxford congestion charge and wiped an editor's Notion schedule. Its research held up, so the thing to settle before delegating is what the agent may do without a person checking first.
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OpenClaw's shared sessions let a colleague take over an agent's work with its context intact while model credentials stay on the Gateway host, which is the same design that gives each install exactly one trust boundary.
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The agent launched in the US on Tuesday with subscriptions at $20 and $100 a month, and employees testing it during launch week were still logging guardrail bypasses, logouts the system forced on its own, and monitoring that occasionally shut off without explanation.
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Meta launched its Muse agent with national ads as Shopify opened checkout to it and Amazon said it would block it. Expedia's shares fell even after it integrated with Muse, as investors priced the risk that agents cut booking sites out of the sale.
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Meta's Muse passed ChatGPT on Apple's US free chart with roughly 730,000 installs in its first five days. The stock has added more than a fifth of its value since details of the agent emerged.
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The company known for a pocket gadget now ships a cloud agent that installs on up to five Windows, macOS or Linux machines and runs on whatever model subscription the user already pays for. Four rival agents got there first.
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