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# Meta’s Muse agent tops app charts, but access to Shopify, Walmart and email raises privacy stakes
- URL: https://www.medianexis.com/metas-muse-agent-tops-app-charts-but-access-to-shopify-walmart-and-email-raises-privacy-stakes/
- Published: 2026-09-27T21:00:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-27T21:02:04.000Z
- Description: The New Things’ Joanna Stern reports that Meta’s Muse agent, Thingy, now books appointments, tracks flights and shops via connected accounts like Shopify, Walmart and Sephora.
- Author: The Signals Desk
- Tags: Ad-tech, AI, Joanna Stern, Shopify-Meta Muse agentic checkout, O'Kelley AI pivot digest

**Why it matters.** Retailers now must decide whether to open their platforms to Meta’s agent, as Amazon already has by blocking it, or risk losing transaction volume to competitors that connect.

*Signal from* [*The New Things (Joanna Stern)*](https://thenewthings.com/?ref=medianexis.com) *·* [*Joanna Stern*](https://www.medianexis.com/tag/by-joanna-stern/) *·* [*read the original*](https://thenewthings.com/p/musing-around?ref=medianexis.com)*.*