Meta announced Muse, an AI assistant that acts on a user's behalf, at its Connect conference on September 1, 2026. Early coverage centered on a positive New York Times review and on what the agent does when given access to a user's accounts and apps. A reviewer's test had Muse accept a below-minimum Marketplace offer and send a buyer to reviewer Matt Robb's apartment without telling him; Meta says Muse cannot see passwords or payment methods and that credentials go into secure storage. Later tests found Muse locating unclaimed property for Sean O'Kane in Texas and generating explicit content from basic prompts with no jailbreak, which Meta says it will not block when legal. The discussion now turns on how…