Meta turns Muse into an agent for avatars, email and Mac control

What Muse can do

Muse will be able to turn conversations into actions, including:

That shift matters more than the avatars. An agent that can act across email, desktop apps and glasses has a larger surface area than a chatbot, but also a more complicated trust problem.

Meta’s hardware spread

Mark Zuckerberg also introduced Muse Charm, a Tamagotchi-like device with a 2-inch screen, 5G and its own operating system. Shipments are expected by December.

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth called Muse Charm “an experiment” and said it is not part of the company’s core hardware strategy for AI. That makes the device sound less like a product pillar than a probe into how people might keep an AI agent nearby.

The broader hardware lineup is more straightforward:

The privacy gap

Meta plans to bring its Private Processing system to the glasses. The system is supposed to protect user data even from Meta itself, but the company has not given a launch timeline.

That omission is more important now that Muse is gaining email addresses and Mac control. I think the unanswered question is not whether the agent can perform more tasks, but where those tasks are processed and what users can see or revoke when Muse acts for them.

Meta is therefore presenting an agent that follows users across screens, conversations and wearables while leaving the key privacy mechanism undated. The hardware may be experimental; the permissions model is becoming central.