Meta’s AI agent is a cute little guy who’s great at spending my money

September 23, 2026 Allison Johnson

photo showing Muse app on an iPhone screen
An adorable little bear that wants to help you buy things.

Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list.

It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something needs to be taken care of. You're telling me a tree branch fell in the backyard and now I have to figure out what to do with it? The tree just assigned me homework? Oh, our trash collection company canceled our account out of nowhere and now I have to send email about it? Repeatedly? Totally unfair.

These are the things that we've been told for years that AI will help us with. We'll all have a smart virtual assistant to triage and handle the tedious tasks we'd rather …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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