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Welcome to the first edition of the MuseyMe newsletter! Is this the first Muse newsletter to ever exist? Maybe, let’s just go with that :)

Why are we here? If you're anything like me, you tried Muse and fell in love with it from the first moment. This newsletter will be your (or your agent's) one stop shop for everything Muse, to keep you up to speed from week to week. There's so much creativity and excitement in this space right now, and it needs a hub.

The catch up

If you blinked, here's what happened.

• At Meta Connect on September 23, Mark Zuckerberg announced voice and live video calls with your Muse, Muse on Meta glasses, its own email address, and Muse Charm. CNET's ten minute recap covers all of it.
• Muse Charm is a keychain sized device with a screen, for talking to your Muse without your phone. It ships in December.
• Muse can now control your Mac in the Mac app, with your permission, so you can hand it a task and walk away.
• Shopping opened up. Shopify and PayPal checkout work with Muse now, and Instacart and Expedia are coming soon. Amazon still blocks it, so don't expect orders there to go through.

Prompt of the week

Meta opened early access to upcoming Muse features, and the way you sign up is by asking your Muse. Copy this into Muse:

Can you let the Muse team know I want to be part of the Muse early access program?

Meta hasn't said who gets in or when, so reply and tell us what your Muse said back.

Five more things to try this week

These are real results people posted, with links so you can see exactly what they did.

• Find money you're owed. One user told Muse to look for unclaimed funds in his name and file the claims, and New York State approved a $2,202 payout. The fan account Muse Cases posted a prompt you can copy.
• Claim a flight delay credit. One traveler asked Muse to file a claim for a delayed flight and had a $250 Delta credit and a rebooking five minutes later.
• Get bank fees reversed. Here's the prompt; one traveler got $210 back.
• Borrow library ebooks automatically. A reporter has Muse check Libby, the public library ebook app, borrow the book and send it to his Kindle. If there's a wait, Muse tells him whether the ebook or the physical copy will come first.
• Clear out a flooded inbox. One user says Muse spent three days deleting 163,490 promotional emails his wife couldn't clear by hand.

Want more? A few free libraries went up this week:

• Muse at Work: 500 copy and paste workflows for sales, marketing, ops, finance, customer support, hiring and product teams.
• 828 use cases with the prompt behind each, each linked to the original story.

Muse of the week

Every Thursday, r/MuseAgent runs a thread where people show off their Muse avatars. This week's is here. Post yours and it might end up in the next issue.

This week's pick: this dark fox by u/PlasmaChroma.

Features you might have missed

• Check the Ideas tab when you're stuck on what to ask. Alexandr Wang, Meta's chief AI officer, points people there.
• For advanced users: look inside your Muse's computer. Every Muse runs on its own computer in the cloud. A developer asked his to pack up its system folders and found about 70 built in skills, and he says Meta encourages poking around.
• Give it a name. Meta's design director says naming your Muse was planned from day one. The first Muse ever named was Jolly.
• Make yourself a podcast. The trick is to write your own prompt instead of using the defaults, and brief it like a producer: who's listening, what to skip, what take to end on.
• Invite a friend. One user found that the new person has to go to Settings and tap Redeem referral code within 48 hours, or neither of you gets the bonus.
• When details matter, ask Muse to check the source. One user repacked for a flight after Muse quoted a baggage policy from memory instead of checking his booking.

Stay safe

• Turn off data collection. The first thing to do after installing Muse: open Settings, tap Data Controls, and uncheck 'Help improve our AI models' so your chats aren't used to train Meta's models. This post shows exactly where the toggle lives.
• Know what's under the hood. Every Muse runs on its own computer in the cloud, and your passwords are stored outside the part Muse works in. We broke down how it works in plain English, including how to download everything you've made with your Muse. The full technical version is at security.muse.ai.
• Start small if you're wary. Trying Muse doesn't mean connecting your whole life to it. Our guide to trying Muse without handing it everything walks through the options, from using it only in a web browser to picking which device you run it on.
• Update the Mac app. Meta shipped a fix after a researcher published a flaw that needed malicious software already on your computer to work.
• Read the warning before you tap allow. After a researcher found a way attackers could get at emails and files through a malicious link, Meta says it's making Muse's warning about suspicious sites harder to miss.

Coming soon

• Your Muse is getting its own email address, so you can add it to a thread or forward it a message. Voice and video calls are "coming very soon," with no date yet.
• Spotted, not announced: TestingCatalog found signs that you'll soon be able to take the wheel of your Muse's web browser yourself when it needs a hand. Meta hasn't confirmed it.
• Plaid, the company many banking apps use to connect to your accounts, says it's partnering with Muse on money management, though neither side has said what that includes.

Give your Muse its first email. Once it has an address, sign it up at museyme.com and ask it to brief you every Sunday. And if someone forwarded you this, that's where you sign up too.

That's issue one. If it helped, forward it to a friend. And reply to tell us what you're doing with Muse; we read everything. See you next Sunday.

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