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Meta Leans Into AI and Smart Glasses Amid Privacy Pushback

September 23, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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Mark Zuckerberg opened Meta’s Connect conference in Menlo Park on 23 September 2026 with a keynote built around AI-era products, weeks after the launch of the Muse agentic app and a month after an $18 billion settlement with US state attorneys general over children’s online privacy. Meta and EssilorLuxottica sold more than 7 million smart glasses in 2025 against about 2 million in the two previous years combined, with reported ambitions of 20 million a year. This article separates the product lines, the numbers and the privacy objections that actually hold.

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Meta’s Muse AI Assistant Rolled Out With a Serious Security Flaw

September 23, 2026
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Meta shipped Muse on 8 September 2026 with an undocumented setting, endo_voyager_dictation_endpoint, that any process running as the user could rewrite to capture dictated audio and the token controlling the agent. Patrick Wardle published a working proof of concept on 21 September; Meta hotfixed the Mac app a day later. This article sets out the mechanism stage by stage, separates what was demonstrated from what was described, puts Meta’s account beside the researcher’s, and covers the enterprise visibility problem the patch did not address.