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Meta's Free AI Agent Is Cancelling the Subscriptions People Forgot They Had. Meta's Plan to Get Paid Is a Cut of Everything the Agent Buys
Season 2026
Episode 199
Published 1 week, 2 days ago
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CNBC reported Sunday that Meta's Muse, the free personal AI agent launched September 8, has made forgotten subscriptions an easy target, threatening revenue that Stanford economist Neale Mahoney's research says roughly doubles what sellers earn. Apollo's chief economist Torsten Slok warns agents like it could soon sweep household cash out of near-zero checking accounts. Mark Zuckerberg says Meta expects to profit by taking a small fee from transactions, without saying how big or who pays, and Amazon has blocked the agent from its store.
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