Meta has finally brought its Meta AI assistant to the Mac with a dedicated desktop app, giving users another AI chatbot to keep open alongside all those other tabs. The app can analyze a shared window, answer questions about what’s on screen, generate content, and accept voice dictation across macOS.
The most interesting part of the Mac app is its ability to look at a shared window and use what it sees as context. Users can ask Meta AI about something on screen, get suggestions, or have it help create content based on what’s visible. It also supports dictation across applications, making it a little more useful as a desktop assistant than simply opening Meta AI in a browser tab.
Meta is also pitching the app at creators and small businesses. Its AI can connect with Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta advertising campaigns, and Google Workspace, allowing it to analyze things such as post reach, likes, shares and saves, suggest content ideas, and create presentations, documents and spreadsheets. It can also handle recurring tasks such as weekly performance summaries.
Mac users already have plenty of AI assistants to choose from, and Meta’s first desktop effort feels more like catching up than getting ahead. Gemini can already work with shared screen content, while ChatGPT and Claude offer deeper computer-control features that can actually interact with the Mac. Meta could still carve out a useful niche by tying its assistant directly into Instagram, Facebook, and its advertising tools, particularly for creators and businesses.
For now, though, Meta AI’s Mac app feels more like a promising first step than a must-have assistant. Meta says more capabilities are on the way, which could make it considerably more useful over time. The real challenge is convincing Mac users that they need yet another AI assistant sitting on their desktop.
Did you think hitting delete on your AI chatbot conversation actually makes it disappear? Georgia Tech researchers just proved that's not entirely true. They have built a forensic tool called ORISA that can dig deleted conversations from your phone and even rebuild them into a working chatbot session you can keep talking to.
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Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).
Two residents of Chicago have filed a lawsuit in the US over claims that robots run by Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics captured their facial and hand measurements without consent, bringing renewed attention to the food delivery robots. The cases raise a troubling question: If a robot delivers food to your door, can it also be gathering sensitive information about you?
According to a report by The Associated Press, the proposed class-action lawsuits were filed in Cook County on Oct. 9 and allege violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. The complaints claim that the robots’ cameras and LiDAR sensors captured information on customers’ faces and hands as they approached the machines to pick up their orders. Both have denied the allegations.