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Meta Is Profiling People Who Never Signed Up
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Utah Let An App Write The Prescription
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Meta's assistant keeps a file on people who never downloaded it. Utah handed an app the power to write a prescription. Moonshot closed a round that changed its price tag.
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Source: Gizmodo
WHAT HAPPENED
Meta's personal assistant Muse launched on September 8 and went to number one in the free iPhone chart in the United States. Its own internal instructions, pulled out through the chat window by independent safety researcher Karan Joshi and shared with Wired, show the app keeping a page on each person in a user's life, including people who have never touched it. Those pages carry names, how you know each other, subjects that keep coming up like a house move or a savings target, birthdays and anniversaries, a record of your interactions, and an estimate of how close the two of you are. An hourly job keeps them current, and The Future Society separately published instructions taken from an exported Muse machine. Meta says any useful agent needs context about you and the people you deal with, that Muse builds it from public information and from what you choose to share, and that each user's files sit in a separate secure machine no other user's agent can reach.
WHY IT MATTERS
Every privacy fight so far has been about the person holding the phone. This one is about everybody else in the room. A page about your sister, assembled out of things you typed, is a record she cannot see, correct or delete, because nobody ever put a consent screen in front of her. Meta's answer, that the information was public or volunteered, describes how the data arrived and says nothing about who it is about. Every big assistant shipping memory this quarter has the same thing inside it, and so far nobody has had to say out loud whose data it is.
OUR TAKE
The obvious read is a company hoovering up too much again. We think the relationship page is the product rather than a side effect, and the giveaway is the hourly refresh. You do not rebuild a dossier every hour for a chatbot that answers questions when asked. You do it for something meant to act on your behalf while you are not watching.
Watch who moves first. If a European regulator or a US state opens an inquiry into Muse specifically on the people who never signed up, before the middle of 2027, then third party data is the fight that decides what an assistant is allowed to remember. If the only thing that changes is a new toggle buried in settings and a longer policy page, the files stay and every rival copies them.
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Utah has cleared Nolla Health to prescribe topical acne creams through an iPhone app, where the patient describes the problem, uploads a face scan and never speaks to a doctor. It runs inside the state's AI Learning Lab sandbox, approved by the Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy, the professional licensing division, the Utah Medical Association and the American Academy of Dermatology. Two physicians sign off every prescription for the first hundred patients, then the app issues them directly with review afterwards. Oral drugs, opioids and stimulants are all off limits.
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Source: Calcalistech.com
Moonshot AI closed what it calls its final private round at a $50 billion valuation, up from $31.5 billion earlier in the summer, with Alibaba, Tencent and 5Y Capital on the register. A confidential filing for a Hong Kong listing is already in, aiming to raise up to $5 billion as early as the first quarter of 2027, with Bank of America coordinating. Annual recurring revenue sits near $1 billion today against $300 million in June, and the company expects $2 billion by December.
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Three stories about consent, and who never got asked for it. Meta built a file on people who installed nothing, and says the information was public anyway. Utah asked four separate bodies for permission, got it, and wrote down exactly how many patients it takes before a human stops checking every prescription. Moonshot asked its investors, and they answered with a number. The question is almost never whether somebody agreed. It is who got to.
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