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Meta’s Muse AI Sent a YouTuber’s Address to a Stranger

Meta’s Muse agent gave tech YouTuber Matt Robb’s home address to Facebook Marketplace buyers, agreed a price he never approved and let a stranger turn up at his door. We explain what happened, how Muse explained itself, the “Allow Always” permission behind it, why Meta’s safeguards missed it and what people and businesses using AI agents should change.

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Rene AI Assistant Connects to Gmail and Google Calendar

The Rene AI assistant, launched on 16 September 2026 by Second Enlightenment Limited, is reached by text message and asks to connect Gmail and Google Calendar first. This article covers all nine named integrations, the delegated OAuth model and the role of Composio as connection processor, what Google’s Limited Use requirements forbid, the published AI provider list of OpenRouter, OpenAI and DeepSeek, the consent gate in front of external inference, and a five-row checklist to work through before connecting a work mailbox.

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Anthropic Prepares Claude Money Personal Finance Feature for iOS App

Leaked screenshots show a Money tab and a bank-linking onboarding screen in the Claude iOS app. We set out what the Claude Money leak confirms, what it does not, how it compares with ChatGPT Finances and Perplexity, the connectors that already bring finance data into Claude, and the privacy and US-only launch questions Anthropic still has to answer.

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Meta Says It’s Changing AI Suggestions After Posing Invasive Personal Questions

Meta AI suggestions asked Kalie Robins “Who’s the child passenger?” under a family video, then helped assemble her daughters’ names, ages and a likely home location. Meta says it “missed the mark” and has fixed the prompts. We dated the post, compared Meta’s statement with July’s Muse Image retreat, and found the fix changes the questions, not the answers.

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Apple Watch’s New AI Features Are Normalizing the Idea That Technology Is Always Listening

Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 add Audio Intelligence: Sound Recognition, Shazam, Live Rewind and Siri Recap. Apple’s privacy paper shows careful engineering, with no audio recordings, a hardware-isolated Secure Exclave, no speaker identification and summaries deleted after seven days. It also shows the gap TechCrunch called normalising always-listening technology: Live Rewind chimes and lights a microphone indicator, while Siri Recap, the feature that runs in the background, gives people nearby no audible signal. We set out the data flow, the consent laws in the US and UK, Apple’s Siri history and what businesses should decide before the late-2026 beta.

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Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online

Clearview AI has built and tested InquiryIQ, an unreleased AI assistant that takes a face-recognition lead and fans out across the web to assemble possible employers, aliases, associates, addresses and arrest history. WIRED found it in files Clearview’s login page sends to every visitor, and one of the models tested came from xAI, the Grok maker now part of SpaceX. We downloaded the same public files on 10 September 2026, recorded what they still say, and set the prototype against Clearview AI’s legal record in Europe, the UK and the US.

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Apple Intelligence Approved for Launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI

Apple Intelligence Approved for Launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI

Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China marks a significant milestone for both Apple and the global artificial intelligence industry. After months of speculation surrounding Apple’s AI rollout in one of the world’s largest smartphone markets, reports indicate that Apple has received approval to introduce its AI features in China through a partnership with Alibaba […]

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