New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- Meta has launched Muse, a new personal AI agent in the US that is designed to do more than respond to prompts. Announced on September 8, 2026, Muse can work across connected services, browse the web and handle multi-step tasks such as researching and booking travel, managing emails, selling items and making purchases after seeking the users approval. The agent is being introduced through Meta's standalone Muse experience and WhatsApp, and represents the company's latest push to make AI an active participant in users' digital lives rather than simply a tool for generating answers.

That shift also changes the security equation. A chatbot that produces a wrong answer can usually be ignored but if an AI agent that misun...