Muse has also dealt with a couple of privacy-related accusations<\/a> in the mere month and a half since its debut, including a user who claimed the agents analyzed private texts without being asked and another user who had their home address<\/a> given out to a stranger. Researchers have claimed that Muse keeps incredibly detailed and regularly updated files on every person in a user\u2019s life<\/a>, and Amazon blocked<\/a> the agents from shopping on its platform after saying there were concerns related to how they handled customer credentials and account data. Meta also had to patch a major zero-day vulnerability<\/a> that pretty much allowed hackers to hijack the user\u2019s account.<\/p>\n On the call, Meta executives touted numbers demonstrating the company\u2019s strength both in and outside of AI. Threads surpassed X in monthly active users in the past quarter, executives said. Meanwhile, Muse agents were allegedly doing so well that more than 10 million people in the U.S. and Canada had set up personal agents since its debut in early September.<\/p>\n \u201cGrowth continues to be strong, and we have been number one in the App Store almost every day,\u201d Zuckerberg said. \u201cThe most common use case for Muse is shopping, with more than a quarter of people who are using Muse engaging in this with an average purchase size of over $200.\u201d<\/p>\n But these rosy AI goals come with one particularly big thorn: they cost a ton of money. Muse is already \u201cvery compute intensive to run\u201d right now, Zuckerberg admitted on the call, and scaling that to more than a billion will likely require a significant investment.<\/p>\n Meta is expecting to spend at least $135 billion this year, probably more, with most of that money going towards AI infrastructure projects. After reporting a roughly $8 billion drop<\/a> in its quarterly free cash flow in its second-to-last earnings report in July, Meta\u2019s free cash flow officially went negative in its report on Wednesday. Meta\u2019s free cash flow in its third quarter that ended September 30 was negative $2.12 billion.<\/p>\n Executives hope to finance their AI ambitions with a new class of stock that they unveiled on the call. Beginning next year, all existing Meta shareholders will be distributed a new class of non-voting capital stock in a two-for-one stock split. The company, then called Facebook, eventually withdrew<\/a> a similar non-voting stock plan roughly a decade ago.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The AI Brief <\/p>\n A daily briefing on the AI news you need to know to start your day. Written by humans. Envied by bots. <\/p>\n With the move, Meta says that it would have more ways to raise financing without diluting the power Zuckerberg has over the company. It also serves a second function of keeping Zuckerberg in California.<\/p>\n Meta said that it entered into a Founder Alignment Agreement with Zuckerberg, in which Zuckerberg has committed to stay in California, where Meta is headquartered, for the next eight years. Along with a list of other billionaire tech bros, Zuckerberg threatened to leave California if Californians vote to pass a 5% wealth tax on billionaires<\/a>, Proposition 40, in the November election. With the new stock structure, Zuckerberg will be able to sell any non-voting stock to liquidate his assets in the event of a billionaire tax without losing his grip on the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone chatting with its Muse agents. 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