Meta wants users to share health and financial data with new AI assistant

Meta is developing an advanced, highly personalised artificial intelligence (AI) assistant powered by its new Muse Spark model, aimed at automating everyday tasks for its three billion users. The project involves building agentic tools capable of autonomously managing activities such as web browsing, emails, and calendars. 

The initiative may allow users to share sensitive health and financial data to enhance the assistant's performance, though insiders have noted a significant trust deficit regarding such privacy. 

Meta aims to deliver a polished, user-friendly version of the functionalities seen in open-source projects like OpenClaw, which chief executive Mark Zuckerberg claims remain too complex for mass-market adoption. By leveraging its massive distribution network, Meta intends to create the first autonomous AI agent to reach one billion users, even as it balances high innovation costs with internal restructuring. 

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