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Meta's New Smart Glasses Lineup Includes Three Price Points and a Camera-Free Model

Meta unveiled Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3, a camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio model, and $249 Adventurer-style glasses at Connect 2026, with a new Private Processing feature and Muse coming to all of them

DDesk23 Sept 2026 · 22:49 ET3 min read
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Beyond Glasses: Meta Teases a Muse Handheld and a 100-Gram VR Headset

Meta unveiled Muse Charm, a palm-sized 5G handheld for its AI agent, and Meta VR Glasses, a 100-gram headset with a separate compute puck, at Connect 2026.

DDesk23 Sept 2026 · 22:47 ET3 min read
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Fastly Stock Jumps 17% on Report That It Handles All of Meta Muse's Browser-Agent Tasks

Fastly shares surged after a circulated OddDiligence report found the company handled 100% of Meta Muse's browser-navigation and browser-agent test traffic, prompting Freedom Broker to raise its price target to $37

DDesk23 Sept 2026 · 15:35 ET3 min read
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Anthropic Says Claude Independently Discovered a New CRISPR-Like Enzyme System

Anthropic says its Claude model autonomously discovered a new enzyme system with CRISPR-like DNA repeats in bacteriophage DNA, the first result from its new wet lab, though the system's actual function remains unknown.

DDesk23 Sept 2026 · 15:23 ET4 min read
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The Mystery Vendor Behind Meta's Muse? Hunterbrook Thinks It Might Be Innodata

Hunterbrook reports that Innodata's new 'personalization of long-horizon agents' program with its largest customer may be tied to Meta's Muse AI agent, though neither company has confirmed the connection.

DDesk22 Sept 2026 · 20:06 ET3 min read
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Muse Sell-Off Widens: Financials, Insurance, Travel, Telecom, and Gyms All Feel the AI-Agent Threat

A day after banks and travel names first sold off on agentic-AI fears, the list of exposed sectors grew Tuesday to include insurance, telecom, and gym memberships.

DDesk22 Sept 2026 · 19:52 ET3 min read
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