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Data Privacy

AI Agents

Apogee Moves AI Summarization into the Browser and Keeps Sources Local

An open-source browser assistant offers on-device summaries and document questions without accounts, API keys or remote content processing.

Apogee has launched Chrome and Firefox extensions that summarize articles, videos, PDFs and documents and answer questions with locally retrieved passages. It runs through WebGPU, WebAssembly or a user-operated model server, requires no account or cloud upload, and can take readers back to supporting source text. Its local architecture shows how the browser can own the interpretation layer between audiences and publishers without handing reading data or the customer relationship to a cloud AI provider.

AI Agents

Meta’s Muse turns personal data into an agent relationship, deepening platform control

A personal assistant’s memory layer gives Meta a new interface to users’ relationships, intentions and daily tasks.

TIME reports that Muse updates social dossiers hourly for its 4 million users after drawing on conversations, email and Instagram, and that the app has passed 5 million downloads. Meta says the data is not shared with its advertising system or other users’ agents, although de-identified lessons improve the wider product and promised user encryption is not yet available. For advertising-supported platforms, an agent that manages inboxes and errands can own a richer and more frequent customer relationship than a feed, even before its data is used for ad targeting.