// Dev
Your AI shopping agent can't get past a CAPTCHA, and some stores like it that way
Amazon blocks rival agents on purpose, Walmart says its checks catch Meta's Muse by accident, and banks warn about giving agents your password.
// TAG
#meta
// Policy
A pet-portrait app was a front: 400+ disguised apps hid an AI deepfake abuse service
Researchers traced a network of harmless-looking apps that switched to sexual deepfake tools for some users. Apple and Google pulled them after a year on their stores.
// Dev
A reporter with zero coding experience vibe-coded his own Muse Charm for $50
The Verge's Sean Hollister bought a Meta-approved ESP32 devkit and let Claude Code turn it into a talking, Tamagotchi-style AI pendant. He has no idea if the code is any good.
// Startups & Money
Meta says Muse is a shopping machine. Fifty companies say they barely see it.
Zuckerberg touts 10 million Muse activations and big-ticket purchases, but executives from DoorDash to Hilton describe agent-driven sales as tiny so far.