
Meta Pushes Muse AI Into Small Businesses With New App Integrations
Meta is expanding its AI agent Muse for small businesses with Shopify, Slack, QuickBooks, and more integrations.
Updates on X.ai’s scheduling assistants and AI productivity tools.

Meta is expanding its AI agent Muse for small businesses with Shopify, Slack, QuickBooks, and more integrations.

Shopify opens AI checkout to browser-based agents, letting them inspect, update and complete purchases on eligible merchant sites.

AI agents startup Instinct raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation as investor enthusiasm surges and Meta closes in.

Meta’s Muse mascot is adults-only, but the toy-like Muse mascot is fueling worries about child appeal, privacy and trust.

Meta opens Muse early access for new features, inviting AI enthusiasts to test an avatar, shopping tools, desktop actions and glasses support.

AI regulation is dividing Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and the Trump administration as pressure grows for frontier model safety standards.

India now requires caller-ID apps to share spam reports with telecoms, raising anti-competitive concerns and new rules for AI voice calls.

Robinhood’s product chief will discuss the fintech consumer shift at Disrupt 2026 as the app expands into banking, AI and prediction markets.

AI agents Instinct and Meta’s Muse now both make phone calls, signaling a tougher fight for consumers, investors and rival assistants.

AI regulation is back in the spotlight as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and X leaders push for oversight after years of warnings.