Meta Debuts Muse Hardware and Upgrades While Google Tests AI Chips in Space

Meta Debuts Muse Hardware and Upgrades While Google Tests AI Chips in Space The Rundown's latest dispatch highlights Meta Connect 2026 hardware integrations for its Muse agent, Google's orbital AI chip test under Project Suncatcher, a Gemini Canvas workflow for Google Sheets, and updates across leading AI labs. Meta unveiled Charm, a keychain hardware device launching in December to interact with its viral Muse agent, and announced coming integrations with its AI glasses. Google announced Project Suncatcher to launch Trillium TPU chips into orbit on SpaceX's Transporter-18 to test space-based data center viability. Companies including PayPal, Walmart, Shopify, GitHub, and Box integrated with Muse, following Amazon's decision to block access. Black Forest Labs launched FLUX 3 Action for robotic arm control, and OpenAI hired Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead its Creator Product division. Meta Connect 2026 and Muse Upgrades At Connect 2026, Meta introduced several updates centered on its viral Muse agent. Mark Zuckerberg presented Charm, a standalone keychain gadget shipping in December designed for fast interaction with the assistant. Muse will also expand to Meta's AI glasses within months to act on visual input, supported by a private processing mode that excludes user data from Meta. Other announcements included Muse Realtime Avatar with synchronized voice generation and new integrations from partners such as PayPal, Walmart, Shopify, GitHub, and Box. Google's Project Suncatcher Space Test Google announced Project Suncatcher, an initiative to evaluate whether space can host data centers powered by orbital sunlight. Google will launch its Trillium TPUs on SpaceX's Transporter-18 mission alongside satellite firm Planet to assess chip survival against space radiation, vibration, and thermal challenges. If testing succeeds, Google plans to trial two-satellite clusters linked by lasers in 2027, joining other space-compute initiatives from SpaceXAI, Blue Origin, and Starcloud. Workflow Guides and Industry News The edition detailed a workflow using Gemini Canvas to generate interactive dashboards and presentation slides directly from Google Sheets data. In other news, Dario Amodei and Sam Altman addressed AI safety risks at the United Nations, Black Forest Labs debuted its open-weight FLUX 3 Action robotics model, OpenAI hired Patreon co-founder Sam Yam for creator tools, and OpenAI enhanced ChatGPT Voice to manage tasks across connected productivity platforms like Slack and email.

Meta发布Muse硬件生态，Google推进太空AI芯片计划 本期通讯涵盖Meta在Connect大会围绕AI智能体Muse发布的多款硬件与功能、Google探索太空轨道数据中心芯片测试，以及多项行业工具更新与高管动态。 Meta推出Muse钥匙扣硬件Charm并计划接入AI眼镜，同时公布实时头像与新商业伙伴。 Google通过Project Suncatcher将Trillium TPU芯片送入太空轨道，测试太空数据中心可行性。 Dario Amodei与Sam Altman在联合国呼吁AI安全防范风险。 Black Forest Labs发布开源控制机器人手臂模型FLUX 3 Action。 Meta Connect大会聚焦Muse智能体 Meta在Connect大会宣布围绕Muse智能体的多项进展。扎克伯格展示了定于12月发货的钥匙扣硬件Charm，称其为与Muse对话最快的方式。Muse将在数月内集成至Meta AI眼镜，支持基于视野操作并提供排除Meta访问的隐私处理模式。此外，Meta展示了Muse实时头像功能，并新增PayPal、Walmart、Shopify、GitHub和Box等合作伙伴，此前亚马逊曾封禁其访问权限。 Google测试太空轨道AI计算 Google公布Project Suncatcher项目，下周将搭乘SpaceX的Transporter-18任务，与卫星公司Planet合作把Trillium TPU芯片送入轨道，测试抗辐射、震动和极端热量能力。轨道太阳能可达地球的8倍，但真空散热面临挑战。若验证成功，Google计划2027年启动双卫星测试并构建激光互联卫星集群。SpaceXAI、Blue Origin及Starcloud也在研发轨道计算，不过Sam Altman等人对本十年内规模化落地持保留态度。 工作流教程与行业快讯 通讯介绍了通过Gemini Canvas将Google Sheets数据转化为交互式仪表板的步骤。快讯方面，OpenAI聘请Patreon联合创始人Sam Yam领导创作者产品部门，并升级ChatGPT Voice以覆盖跨工具协作；WSJ报道称美国AI建设到2032年或吸引10.3万亿美元投资；Black Forest Labs发布击败Nvidia Cosmos 3的开源机器人控制模型FLUX 3 Action；Anthropic与OpenAI首席执行官在联合国就AI威胁人类安全发出警告。

[Read Online](https://therundownai.beehiiv.com/p/meta-connect-turns-into-a-muse-takeover) ^| [Sign Up](https://www.therundown.ai/subscribe?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019) ^| [Advertise](https://therundownai.typeform.com/to/kraZ1TSO?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019) **Good morning, {{ first\_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 4,981 new readers who joined us yesterday.** Meta’s viral Muse and its adorable mascot are everywhere right now, and they’re about to show up in two new places — on your face and in your hand. With a keychain device called Charm on the way and Meta’s AI glasses next in line, Muse is the new star of the company’s hardware lineup, and Mark Zuckerberg suddenly has one of the first AI agents worth wearing. **In today’s AI rundown:** Meta’s Connect turns into a Muse takeover Rowan’s Corner: The Rundown team gets together IRL Use Gemini Canvas to visualize Google Sheets Google’s AI chips are headed to space **LATEST DEVELOPMENTS** Image source: Meta **The Rundown:** Meta just [introduced](https://www.meta.com/blog/meta-connect-2026-everything-we-announced/?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019) a flurry of new AI upgrades for its viral Muse agent at its Connect 2026 event, including a keychain hardware gadget called Charm, coming integrations with its AI glasses, real-time voice and video chats, and more. **The details:** Mark Zuckerberg revealed Charm on stage, a physical device shipping in December, calling it “by far the fastest way to talk to your Muse.” Muse will hit the company’s AI glasses within months to act on what users see, promising a private processing mode that excludes data from even Meta. Meta also [teased](https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/2102919552254484765?s=20&utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019) Muse Realtime Avatar, letting users animate their Muse with synched voice, with raters favoring it over avatars from Runway and HeyGen. Companies including PayPal, Walmart, Shopify, GitHub, and Box have now joined Muse as partners, coming after Amazon moved to block access earlier this week. **Why it matters:** Muse is a real viral hit, and the vibes at Meta are sky high (see: Alexandr Wang’s unhinged but hilarious [X feed](https://x.com/alexandr_wang?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019)). The company that was once roasted for the metaverse and AI spending now has what every AI hardware maker has wanted but struggled with: an agent people use, and the world’s bestselling AI glasses to put it in. **The Rundown:** Only 22% of organizations have scaled AI across business units. When agent autonomy outpaces oversight, risk follows. This exclusive Gartner webinar shows how to embed governance into workflows and keep control as you scale. **In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:** Mitigate AI agent production risks Build governance into workflows Maintain oversight as you scale The Rundown team at our 2026 Lisbon retreat **Rowan:** This week, The Rundown had its first-ever team retreat in Lisbon, together with our new partners at Electrify. The craziest part is that over three and a half years, the team has grown to a little over 20 people, and I hadn’t met half of them in person before this week (we’re fully remote). People flew in from Canada, Switzerland, Seattle, San Diego, Chicago, Florida, Greece, France, India, and Hong Kong. One person traveled over 27 hours to be in the room! I’ll be honest, being fully remote and async is why we can deliver AI news this fast, and I wouldn’t change it. But what I didn’t expect was what happens when you put so many smart, ambitious, AI-curious people in one room. You hear how people are *really* thinking about the risks, where they’re optimistic, and how they’re using AI to improve their lives instead of just for work. I’m extremely grateful to be surrounded by people like this, and I realize it’s a privilege not everyone has. So if there’s one thing worth stealing from this edition, it’s to find your AI peer group. Gather a few people who are as curious about this stuff as you are and meet once a month over coffee. These groups dampen the fear, open your eyes to new opportunities, and help you become more human in this fast-paced, increasingly AI-driven world. And if you don’t know anyone locally as passionate as you are yet, our [community](https://app.therundown.ai/community?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019) is a good place to start (you can connect with local, interesting people through LinkedIn). **The Rundown:** In this guide, you will learn how to visualize a Google Sheet as a shareable dashboard. Google’s new tool, Gemini Canvas, might be the easiest and fastest way we’ve found to prototype in Google Workspace. **Step-by-step:** Open a spreadsheet (like a project tracker or content calendar) in Google Sheets. Launch Gemini in a new tab, click the + button, and select Canvas Prompt Gemini: “Make me an interactive dashboard using the data from tabs one and two” When it finishes, copy the Canvas link and paste it into your browser to view the dashboard outside the chat To edit the dashboard, talk to Gemini in the chat like you normally would. If you’ve shared the link with a coworker, they will see the updated version as well **Pro tip:** Gemini can also make really fast slide decks in Canvas. Ask it to make slides from the same tabs, then export the result to Google Slides or download it as a PDF. **The Rundown:** Scribe Optimize automatically maps how work actually happens across your org — so before you build an AI strategy, you’re working from reality, not assumptions. **With Scribe Optimize, you can:** Instantly map your processes, with no interviews, surveys, or guesswork Identify the highest-impact opportunities Build your AI strategy on ground truth, not gut feel Image source: Google **The Rundown:** Google just [announced](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/google-project-suncatcher-facts/?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019) it will launch its first AI chips into orbit next week under Project Suncatcher, a moonshot testing whether space can one day host data centers powered by near-constant sunlight. The chips, Trillium TPUs, will fly on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 mission with satellite firm Planet, testing whether they can survive space’s radiation, vibration, and heat. When a satellite is in the right orbit, it can get 8x more solar energy than on Earth, though cooling gets harder since heat in a vacuum can only escape via radiators. If the infra holds up, Google envisions laser-linked satellite clusters, each carrying dozens of TPUs, starting with a two-satellite test in 2027. Alongside Google, SpaceXAI, Blue Origin, and Starcloud are also working on orbital data centers, with SpaceXAI targeting a million-satellite compute network. **Why it matters:** Data center buildouts have been anything but smooth, with communities pushing back over noise, grid strain, and rising energy bills. If Google or a rival cracks orbital compute, it could take much of that pressure off. Many, including OAI’s CEO Sam Altman, remain unconvinced that it could take off at scale this decade. **QUICK HITS** ▸ **Susan used AI to build the perfect playlist for senior fitness classes** Today’s workflow comes from reader **Susan Young**: “I built a workflow to select music for a senior fitness class that suits the participants’ general age range and meets the program’s criteria of approximately 120 BPM. I also require the music to be danceable and have a 4/4 beat. After a successful summer using AI-suggested, danceable Motown songs from the 1970s, I continued using AI to help with music selection. I don’t have a music background or the knowledge to do this myself, so I appreciate the help. Yesterday, a participant commented on how enthusiastic she was about the music. Her response was simple: I love the music.” *See Susan’s full workflow here. How do you use AI? Tell us for a chance to be featured.* 🤖 [Muse](https://www.therundown.ai/tools/muse?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-0920&_bhlid=336c95478027c3e1efe36869e816041832ae783f) - Meta’s personal agent, now available as a real-time avatar 🧑💻 [Rollouts](https://cursor.com/blog/rollouts-and-security-reviewer?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019) - Cursor’s bot to monitor code, catch regressions, trigger rollbacks 📺️ [Tesseract](https://mirage.app/tesseract?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019) - Mirage’s video, motion, and sound editor for AI agents 🗣️ [Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-text-to-speech/?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019) - Google’s text-to-speech AI supporting 100 languages **Dario Amodei and Sam Altman** [called](https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-un-security-council-64519ea66b38e2600026f4481ad7f211?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+New+Content+%28Feed%29&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter) for AI safety at the UN, with Amodei saying it could be “a risk to humanity” and Altman warning about losing “control of the future to AI.” **FLUX-maker Black Forest Labs** [released](https://bfl.ai/models/flux-3-action?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019) FLUX 3 Action, an open-weight model that steers robot arms from camera footage, beating Nvidia’s Cosmos 3 on a simulation leaderboard at under half its size. **The U.S.’s AI build-out** could [attract](https://www.wsj.com/economy/the-ai-build-out-is-becoming-the-biggest-economic-bet-in-u-s-history-c60716dd?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019) $10.3T by 2032, creating jobs but fueling inflation and squeezing housing construction, reports the Wall Street Journal. **OpenAI** [hired](https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/patreon-co-founder-sam-yam-joins-openai-lead-new-creator-division?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019) Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead its new Creator Product division, tapping a creator-economy veteran to build tools for creators, The Information reports. **OpenAI** [upgraded](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2102808325742322002?s=20&utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019) ChatGPT Voice to let users get things done by voice across ChatGPT Work, email, calendars, Slack, and other connected tools. Read our last AI newsletter: [Anthropic’s AI biology lab makes its first find](https://therundownai.beehiiv.com/p/anthropic-ai-biology-lab-makes-its-first-find?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019) Read our last Tech newsletter: [Meta’s less-creepy smart glasses](https://tech.therundown.ai/p/meta-less-creepy-smart-glasses?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-0924&_bhlid=746ee242dd3d4b4465d747bec7f11a9e1408c7ea) Read our last Robotics newsletter: [Agility’s new ‘safer’ humanoid](https://robotnews.therundown.ai/p/agility-new-safer-humanoid?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-0924&_bhlid=ced043d79844ca243a292e3a37068f187182aefa) Today’s AI tool guide: [Use Gemini Canvas to visualize Google Sheets](https://app.therundown.ai/guides/use-gemini-canvas-to-visualize-google-sheets-like-a-pro?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019) RSVP to next workshop on Sept. 30: [Turn Cowork into your chief of staff](https://app.therundown.ai/live/claude-cowork-201-turn-your-chat-into-a-chief-of-staff?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-0924&_bhlid=133da1f838acd2fa0145117b2d951a2def443916) See you soon, *Rowan, Zach, Shubham, Jennifer, and Nate — the humans behind The Rundown*