Meta Ships a Dedicated Mac App for Meta AI With Window Sharing
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Meta announced a Mac desktop app for its AI chatbot on Wednesday, August 19, with a window-sharing mode that lets the assistant see a chosen window and offer suggestions or answer questions about what is on screen. Screen-context assistants on the desktop are now table stakes, with Meta joining ChatGPT and Claude in shipping native Mac clients rather than relying on the browser. The window-scoped permission model is the part worth watching, since it is the same pattern Apple's leaked camera AirPods reporting suggests is becoming the privacy compromise of choice.