Cloud‑VM Personal Agents Go Mainstream

Meta’s Muse shows a model where a user's personal AI runs in a dedicated virtual machine in the vendor's cloud, with a visible built‑in browser, subscription pricing, and privacy modes. That architecture centralizes compute, data, and service integration (payments, device support) under the platform maker rather than on the user's device or a neutral protocol. — If big platforms ship cloud‑VM personal agents at scale, debates about platform power, data governance, commercial incentives, and device lock‑in will move from theory to immediate policy and consumer‑protection questions.