Meta's Muse: Killer app? Security nightmare? Both?

NPR | By Connor Donevan,

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Published September 30, 2026 at 5:59 PM EDT

Meta's AI Assistant has been downloaded millions of times. It could change the way we experience the internet, it'll just need a whole lot of your personal data first.

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