Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps
In Brief Posted: 5:11 AM PDT · August 20, 2026 Image Credits:picture alliance / Contributor (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Ivan Mehta Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps Meta today announced a new Mac app for Meta AI with built-in system-wide dictation. The app can also…
In Brief Posted: 5:11 AM PDT · August 20, 2026 Image Credits:picture alliance / Contributor (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Ivan Mehta Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps Meta today announced a new Mac app for Meta AI with built-in system-wide dictation. The app can also look at the current screen and answer your questions based on the context using its Muse Spark model. The company said that the dictation feature works across all apps, just like other tools such as Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue. Last month, Google also updated its Gemini app for Mac to enable a system-wide dictation feature. The Mac app release is part of a Meta AI update for business owners. The company said that merchants can connect their Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Slides) accounts to Meta AI and get insights by querying the AI assistant. Meta AI can provide users with information about campaign performance and audience engagement metrics to understand what posts have worked well. It added that users can also access intelligence on competitors based on publicly available data. With the new Meta AI integration with business tools, the AI assistant can create proposal decks, draft documents, and spreadsheets. Meta has increasingly focused on making its AI tools available to businesses for automated customer support and inquiries across its apps, including WhatsApp and Instagram. During the company’s Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that there is a big opportunity to sell agents to businesses and automate work on their behalf. Topics AI, In Brief, Meta, meta ai October 13 – 15 San Francisco In less than 48 hours, your chance to save up to $300 on your tickets will end! REGISTER NOW Newsletters See More Subscribe for the industry’s biggest tech news Related Gaming Meta brings Pocket, an app that lets you vibe-code and share games, to US users Sarah Perez 13 hours ago Climate TerraPower’s nuclear reactor has a secret weapon for powering AI data centers Tim De Chant 2 days ago Media & Entertainment Amazon makes its AI-powered Alexa+ free on Fire TV, no Prime required Sarah Perez 2 days ago Latest in AI AI AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom Marina Temkin 4 hours ago AI OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates Julie Bort 6 hours ago In Brief ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plug-in Lucas Ropek 7 hours agoSource: TechCrunch — Published — Category: Business