META'S MUSE AI HITS 500K USERS, FACES OPENCLAW COPYING CLAIMS
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Meta's new AI agent Muse reached 500,000 users in its first week and topped Apple's App Store. However, Meta acknowledged the product is "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw, an open-source project, with nearly identical file names and code segments.
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