With the launch of Muse, its autonomous AI agent, Meta has brought into sharp relief a tension as old as technological progress itself: the gap between those who build transformative tools and those who must wait, perhaps indefinitely, for access to them. In September 2026, what began as a product announcement has become a mirror held up to the economics of the AI era — reflecting an industry where capital, infrastructure, and talent cluster in a handful of firms, and where the gains of automation may deepen the very inequalities they promise to dissolve. The question regulators and societies