Meta&#x27;s new Muse AI assistant is having a moment — and it&#x27;s kind of adorable. Meta announced a slew of new integrations for its AI assistant at a company event this week, including a customizable furry lil’ avatar and a Tamogatchi-like wearable device for interacting with it. Plus, Wall Street is betting billions on growing demand for cybersecurity in the age of AI and social media platform Discord enters its age-gating era. Anita Ramaswamy at The Information is here to help us unpack the week in tech. More on this: I Gave My Life Over to Meta’s A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away — New York Times Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center — 404 Media CrowdStrike and Okta Trade at Big Premiums Despite Unproven AI Payoff — The Information Discord’s age-verification era is upon us, despite community backlash — Tech Crunch

Meta’s new Muse AI agent gives investors the warm-'n-fuzzies

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[SPEAKER_01] Meta shows off its new cute and cuddly side. From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carino. Meta's new Muse AI assistant is having a moment, and it's kind of adorable. We'll get into it on today's Marketplace Tech Bytes Week in Review. Plus, Wall Street is

[SPEAKER_01] betting billions on growing demand for cybersecurity in the age of AI. And the social media platform Discord enters its age-gating era. But first, back to all the Muse news. Meta announced a slew of new integrations for its AI assistant at a company event this week. They include a customizable furry little avatar and a Tamagotchi-like wearable device for interacting with it. Anita Ramaswamy at The

[SPEAKER_01] Information is here to help us unpack the week in tech. It's kind of funny to see how they've decided

[SPEAKER_00] to put the avatars and how different AI companies have, you know, almost humanized their AI products.

[SPEAKER_01] And I guess this one is making it a cute cartoon. Wall Street has been pretty happy with Meta's performance here. You know, the stock popped. Like, what are investors thinking? What is Muse doing for Meta and in kind of the narrative of how Meta's been doing? So Meta has been seen as sort of behind in

[SPEAKER_00] terms of rolling out AI products in the past. They've had a couple of different launches. They haven't exactly gone well, but this launch of Muse is huge for them. They're in the same ballpark in terms of downloads and popularity initially out the gate as ChatGPT even. And they have this massive distribution and a massive network of people. So they've tried to launch things like this AI-powered social media platform before that didn't quite take off.

Meta’s new Muse AI agent gives investors the warm-'n-fuzzies

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Meta’s new Muse AI agent gives investors the warm-'n-fuzzies

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.