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What you get from Mu’s search is not a list of links or a generic paragraph that could answer any related query. It is a reading of the web in the light of exactly what you asked. When you type a question, the tool fetches results, then synthesises them against your specific int…
When you host Mu yourself, your data never leaves your machine. No account, no sync to someone else’s server, no terms of service to accept. You get news, mail, search, weather, markets, reminders — the same tools as the web version — but they live on your hardware under your co…
We recently shipped a small but deliberate change to how Mu presents answers. When the system can produce a useful result from its available tools, the answer now leads with that result in the first sentence. Any limitations—missing providers, stale data, partial coverage—come a…
Mu now treats places lookup as a first-class service, sitting alongside search, weather, markets, and news in the agent’s toolset. When you ask “where is the nearest post office” or “what’s the address of that café”, the agent can call a dedicated places API instead of scraping …
Using a service that has no ads, no tracking, and no algorithmic feed feels different from the moment you open it. The page loads cleanly — no banner pushing a product you searched for yesterday, no autoplay video, no “you might also like” sidebar. The content is what you asked …
The big platforms give you a service for every need, but they sit at the centre of what you do. They own the mail, the search, the news, the weather, the maps. You rent each piece and pay with your data and attention. Mu is the same everyday stack — news, mail, search, weather, …
You ask a question and the agent pulls from several services at once. Say you want to know if it’s a good day to drive to the coast. The agent calls weather for the forecast, news for traffic or road closures, and places for a rest stop or cafe along the route. It composes the a…
When you ask Mu what is moving in markets, the answer should come fast – not after a detour through generic planning. That is the idea behind a recent refinement to how the agent handles market-mover questions. Instead of routing every query through a general-purpose planning st…
Most AI assistants answer questions about current events from memory. The model has a cutoff date, and anything after that is stitched together from training data or guesswork. Mu does not do that. When you ask about today’s news or a recent event, Mu runs a live search against …
When you ask Mu about current events, the answer now holds its tongue until the freshness guard has done its work. Previously, streaming could begin before the tool had finished checking whether the news results were recent enough to share confidently. A user might see half a se…
Mu’s news streaming now remembers the guardrails. When you ask for recent news, the answer is built with a caveat attached to the first visible line — a plain statement of how fresh the search results are. That caveat used to vanish during reconnection: if the stream was interru…
A small change to how Mu handles news searches: when the available results are older than the current day for a date-sensitive query, the answer now leads with a freshness caveat before listing any stories. The caveat appears first, not buried at the end.
Until recently, a page reload meant you lost the context of your conversation with the Mu agent. You’d have to restate your question or re-enter details. That friction is gone now. Follow-up questions stay attached to the same thread, even after a reload. You can ask a question,…
The primary news provider Mu uses is a real service with its own API. Like any service, it can be unavailable — an outage, a rate limit, a network issue. In those moments, Mu falls back to web search results. But a fallback should not pretend to be the same as live news. It shou…
If you ask Mu for “AI news” and get back a story about a crypto token jumping because a company mentioned AI, that’s not actually AI news — it’s market noise wearing the label. The same goes for broad finance roundups that happen to include a sentence about an AI startup. That’s…
When you ask Mu for news about a specific topic, you get news about that topic. Not a summary of the day’s headlines. Not a paragraph that starts with what you asked for and drifts into a general briefing. The answer stays on the subject you chose, and it tells you how recent th…
When you ask Mu about the news, the weather, or the markets, the question is anchored to the day you ask it. The agent treats that as a fact: your request has a date, and the answer should reflect what is known as of that date. That means Mu does not silently return a cached res…
Mu is a single place you talk to instead of jumping between a dozen apps and tabs. You ask it in plain language — “What’s the weather in Berlin this weekend?” or “Show me the top stories in tech today” — and it goes to the real services behind the scenes: weather, news, search, …
A guest walking up to Mu for the first time should be able to ask about the weather and get a useful forecast quickly. That’s what the recent refinement is about: making the first interaction with weather feel natural, not like a setup wizard. If you say “what’s the weather like…
The latest refinement to Mu’s web home is small but deliberate. The page now leads with a prompt — the same input field you use to ask for news, mail, weather, or anything else. Below it, answers appear inline when you ask, and a personal glance shows your recent reminders and p…