Home Emerging Tech News Meta’s next AI trick could be shopping for you on Instagram Vazhnik / Pexels Meta’s next move with AI is moving beyond chatbots and stepping into a shopping assistant. According to an Engadget report, citing The Information , the company is developing a more advanced “agentic” AI assistant that can perform tasks on behalf of users instead of simply answering prompts. This would include a specialized AI shopping agent for Instagram. What’s Meta cooking up? Bryan M. Wolfe / Digital Trends The new AI tool is reportedly built around a new model called Muse Spark , and Meta is said to be testing it internally. The company is also working on another project, codenamed Hatch, with testing expected to wrap up by June. If you’ve been following the AI agent race, these tools are being built to handle more than just summarizing a webpage or generating text. Now, they seek to navigate apps, interact with services, and handle multi-step tasks for the user.…