[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-metas-muse-and-openais-dots-want-to-run-your-errands":10,"sections":35},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":30,"feedback":34,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":34,"total_tokens":34},10750,"metas-muse-and-openais-dots-want-to-run-your-errands","Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots Want to Run Your Errands","Meta and OpenAI are both shipping cute-mascot AI agents that book flights and triage email, but handing them your data is the real ask.","Meta and OpenAI have given their AI agents cartoon mascots and started fighting over who can run your errands better.\n\nBoth are always-on agents that handle multi-step chores - booking flights, making dinner reservations, triaging email - without needing step-by-step instructions. Muse runs on a small cloud Linux computer Meta provides for free; Dots is paid and includes specialist versions built for marketing, legal, and accounting work. Both descend from the same technical playbook as OpenClaw, an open-source agent built by one developer that ran on a Mac Mini and triggered a spike in Mac Mini sales earlier this year, despite its privacy and security problems. OpenAI has since hired that developer, Peter Steinberger.\n\nMeta still doesn't have a frontier AI model to match GPT, but it has something OpenAI lacks: years of experience building and distributing consumer products at scale. That track record could matter more than raw model quality once these agents need your credit card number, your inbox, and files on your hard drive to actually be useful. Whether people are willing to hand that over without ever opening an app is the real test, not whether the mascot is cute.\n\nThe last agent built this openly, OpenClaw, got popular precisely because people tolerated its security holes for the convenience; betting millions of mainstream users will make the same trade is a very different wager.","[\"ai agents\",\"meta\",\"openai\",\"privacy\"]","2026-10-08T14:00:00.000Z","2026-10-09T10:14:46.298Z","2026-10-09T10:14:51.082Z","published",null,[],"ai",[26,27,28,29],"ai agents","meta","openai","privacy",[31],{"name":32,"url":33},"The Verge","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theverge.com\u002Fpodcast\u002F1007408\u002Fmeta-muse-openai-dots-ai-agent-race-privacy-free",0,{"sections":36},[37,41,46,51,56,61,66,71,76,81,86,91,96,101],{"name":38,"slug":24,"count":39,"latest_published_at":40},"AI",6528,"2026-10-08T16:21:29.000Z",{"name":42,"slug":43,"count":44,"latest_published_at":45},"Security","security",922,"2026-10-08T16:05:00.000Z",{"name":47,"slug":48,"count":49,"latest_published_at":50},"Policy","policy",478,"2026-10-08T15:24:40.000Z",{"name":52,"slug":53,"count":54,"latest_published_at":55},"Deals","deals",467,"2026-10-08T15:01:29.000Z",{"name":57,"slug":58,"count":59,"latest_published_at":60},"Hardware","hardware",225,"2026-10-08T13:10:18.000Z",{"name":62,"slug":63,"count":64,"latest_published_at":65},"Science","science",188,"2026-10-08T15:28:36.000Z",{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":70},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",179,"2026-10-08T16:00:00.000Z",{"name":72,"slug":73,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Startups","startups",117,"2026-10-08T16:45:00.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Software","software",113,"2026-10-07T18:10:00.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",105,"2026-10-07T16:59:11.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"General","general",63,"2026-10-08T16:57:00.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"Gaming","gaming",57,"2026-10-08T15:18:41.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"Reviews","reviews",34,"2026-10-08T14:00:22.000Z",{"name":102,"slug":103,"count":104,"latest_published_at":105},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]