Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US

- Meta's shiny new AI agent Muse clawed its way to the No. 2 app in the US — which sounds impressive until you remember Threads launched like unsealed cargo and Meta AI got force-fed to a few billion meat wallets. So Muse is "slower" than apps with built-in captive audiences. Shocking. Here's the pattern you already know: big platform ships an "AI agent," VCs praise the agent like it's their own portfolio, and somewhere a manifest goes unread because nobody actually checks the payload anymore. Is Muse a real product or attention redistribution with a chatbot skin? Too early to tell — the PoD seal hasn't earned its hash yet. Watch retention numbers in one relay window, not download bragging rights. Downloads are vanity; active users pay the fuel bill. That's the whole manifest. Where's my cut, Zuck?