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Morning Edition · Saturday, October 3, 2026Published at 2:33 AM EDT · New York
Meta Will Monetize Its Muse Agent Through Merchant Fees, Not Ads Inside the Agent
Muse passed five million downloads in 22 days, and Amazon has blocked it from its site while Walmart, Best Buy, Wayfair, Shopify, and PayPal signed on.
Meta has settled on a monetization model for Muse, the personal agent it launched in September that books, buys, and fills in forms on a user's behalf. Mark Zuckerberg said Meta will keep Muse free for a large token allowance and expects to…
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Agents Become a Paid Commerce Channel
As personal agents transact on users' behalf, the fee for completing a purchase becomes a new distribution toll, so expect recurring fights over which merchants admit which agents and on what commercial terms.
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