Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is positioning the forthcoming Muse Charm handheld device as part of the company's effort to compete with OpenAI and Google in AI agents and consumer hardware. Zuckerberg has provided few details about the device's capabilities, but investors have rewarded Meta's broader AI momentum. Muse has reached the top of Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store, with millions of users, and demonstrations showed the agent scheduling meetings, negotiating cable rates and making purchases across multiple services. Meta plans to bring Muse to next-generation Meta VR Glasses and to monetize transactions by taking a small cut. The company says Muse will be free and has emphasized privacy through Muse Secure VM and the planned Muse Confidential VM. Muse Charm also represents Zuckerberg's latest hardware effort to reduce Meta's reliance on Apple for distribution. Trust remains a challenge as Meta seeks to persuade users to let an AI agent handle sensitive information, following the company's $5 billion settlement over the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.