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Meta tested a human concierge service for its personal AI assistant, Muse, with human contractors placing some calls on the backend. Following employee privacy concerns, the company admitted that failing to properly disclose the practice was a mistake and temporarily rolled back the feature. Internal testing showed that human-conducted calls could boost the success rate to 95% to 98%, outperforming fully AI-driven calls. Muse recorded over 2.5 million downloads within two weeks of its launch, while Meta's stock price rose more than 20% during the same period.
Claude launched an update for hosted agents this week; users can now set budgets for sessions to keep spending predictable. When a session reaches the budget limit, it will automatically pause and trigger the budget_reached event, and users can increase the budget amount to resume the session. This feature is designed to help developers better manage the operating costs of AI assistants.
According to CoinDesk, Ondo Finance has partnered with Broadridge to introduce proxy voting functionality for holders of over 250 tokenized securities on its platform. Users can log in to Broadridge’s ProxyVote system via their crypto wallets to review corporate documents and submit voting preferences. The total market value of stocks and ETF tokens currently issued on its Global Markets platform exceeds $700 million. Ondo stated that while these tokens do not directly confer shareholder rights, the platform can consider investors’ voting preferences when exercising voting rights on the underlying shares it holds.