Meta Introduces Muse, a WhatsApp AI Agent for Shopping and Payments

Meta has introduced Muse, an AI agent operating directly inside WhatsApp that can handle tasks like booking travel, drafting emails, and negotiating purchase prices. Muse integrates Stripe's Link service to process checkouts directly within chat threads, while a secondary security agent named Sentinel monitors outgoing actions before they hit the web. The release brings practical multi-step transaction capabilities to a mainstream messaging platform.