Meta’s Muse AI assistant was born to shop
Give it your credit card, and Muse can tirelessly scour the web on your behalf, looking for deals and even ringing them up on your say-so. Credit: Ben Patterson/Foundry Let an AI agent go to town with your credit card? But that’s the pitch — and the appeal — of Muse, the new agentic assistant from Meta that’s turned into an unlikely AI hit.
- ▪Give it your credit card, and Muse can tirelessly scour the web on your behalf, looking for deals and even ringing them up on your say-so.
- ▪Credit: Ben Patterson/Foundry Let an AI agent go to town with your credit card?
- ▪But that’s the pitch — and the appeal — of Muse, the new agentic assistant from Meta that’s turned into an unlikely AI hit.
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| Publication time | Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 |
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Give it your credit card, and Muse can tirelessly scour the web on your behalf, looking for deals and even ringing them up on your say-so. I sent it looking for theater tickets. Credit: Ben Patterson/Foundry Let an AI agent go to town with your credit card? You must be nuts. But that’s the pitch — and the appeal — of Muse, the new agentic assistant from Meta that’s turned into an unlikely AI hit. I’ve been playing with Muse for the past few weeks and, until a couple of days ago, I wasn’t too impressed. To me, it looked like yet another chatty AI assistant, all talk, unable to do the simplest things without fumbling the ball or burning through usage limits.
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