Tag: consumer AI

Meta lets Muse agents build their own little rooms

Spaces turns a chat thread into a persistent project workspace that keeps updating from connected apps.

OpenAI adds a PIN lock to keep sensitive chats out of sight

Locked Chats keep conversations behind a four-digit code or biometric check, but stop short of end-to-end encryption.

Disney hires most of Character.AI after its bankruptcy filing

A court filing shows Disney will offer jobs to at least 60 Character.AI employees at roughly $60M in…

Suno opens a Speech beta that narrates and scores at once

Suno opened a Speech beta that generates narration and its background music together, as the company pushes beyond…

ChatGPT adds a fitting room and a favorites shelf

OpenAI rolled out virtual try-on and a product library, pushing ChatGPT deeper into online shopping.

Meta denies its Muse agent read a user’s private messages

The company says the Mac app's Messages access is opt-in, but trust is the harder problem.

DoorDash lets customers order dinner by texting an agent

A text-to-order assistant inside Apple Messages opens a waitlist for US users.

Google folds Gemini Gems into a slash command it calls skills

Custom assistants built inside the Gemini app will migrate automatically to skills on November 17.

Google Labs retools CC as a shared agent for busy households

The experimental agent now runs from its own Google account and serves up to six family members.

Meta’s Muse agent runs errands on a dedicated cloud computer

Meta's Muse agent books travel, pays bills and shops from a locked-down virtual machine of its own.

Google hands Photos library work to its Gemini Spark assistant

The personal agent gains Google Photos powers including curation, shared albums, and flyer-to-calendar workflows.

China sells AI compute by the token to consumers and businesses

Banks, carriers and a district government are packaging AI compute as rewards, subscriptions and even loan collateral.