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Meta Releases Muse AI for macOS, Fixes Zero-Day

By Drooid · Sep 24, 2026, 2:23 AM UTC · How we work

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Meta Releases Muse

Meta United States released the Muse AI agent for macOS and patched a zero-day bug.
Security researcher Patrick Wardle (Objective-See) first reported the vulnerability that could redirect dictation.
Meta’s David Singleton said the exploit required existing malware on the user’s device.
Wardle argued a hacker could potentially exploit the flaw remotely.
Meta urged immediate update of the macOS Muse app; no further action was required.

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Friedman Buys Mac Minis

Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta Superintelligence Labs, confirmed Muse was heavily inspired by OpenClaw.
Friedman said he bought hundreds of Mac minis for his team after testing OpenClaw in January 2026.
Ansh Nanda labeled Muse “OpenClaw for normies” and shared a Muse-generated admission that its SOUL.md file matches OpenClaw’s configuration.
Meta framed the copying as a strategy to scale a safe, consumer-grade agent to billions.

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Historical Context

In February 2019 OpenAI announced its 1.5-billion-parameter GPT-2 model but withheld the full release, citing risks of spam, hate speech, and malicious use, and offered only limited access to researchers. That cautious precedent shaped industry debate, and in 2026 Meta’s Muse AI agent drew criticism from Patrick Wardle and Nat Friedman for unvetted code reuse, echoing the same safety concerns.

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Meta Releases Muse

Meta United States released the Muse AI agent for macOS and patched a zero-day bug.
Security researcher Patrick Wardle (Objective-See) first reported the vulnerability that could redirect dictation.
Meta’s David Singleton said the exploit required existing malware on the user’s device.
Wardle argued a hacker could potentially exploit the flaw remotely.
Meta urged immediate update of the macOS Muse app; no further action was required.

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