TNB Tech Minute: Meta’s Stock Soars as New AI Agent Gathers Steam
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TNB Tech Minute: Meta’s Stock Soars as New AI Agent Gathers Steam

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 21, 20262 min
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Plus: OpenAI urges Washington to lead global effort to create AI-safety standards. And Accenture shares climb on AI safety partnership with Anthropic. Julie Chang hosts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Here's your afternoon TNBTech Minute for Monday, September 21st. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. Metastalk is up about 12%. The rise comes as its personal AI assistant, Muse, is seeing early signs of success.

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Released two weeks ago, the app reached the number one spot in Apple's App Store and has been seeing strong user praise on X. A truest analyst noted Muse could add an additional $28.5 billion for the company by 2030. While Muse is free to use, it also offers two paid tiers for Super users, one for

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$20 a month and another for $100 a month. OpenAI is asking the US government to lead an effort with other countries to establish global safety and security standards for building cutting-edge AI systems. In a proposal published today, the company suggested that countries set common measures

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