Muse Completes “Sleep, by Design” Platform with Smart Wakeup: A Smarter Alarm That Wakes Your Brain Up at the Right Time

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 7, 2026--

Muse by Interaxon today announced Smart Wakeup, the newest addition to its Sleep, by Design platform. Smart Wakeup monitors brain activity in real time and times a gentle audio wake-up to lighter sleep, so the alarm works with your brain, not against it.

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Sleep Assist helps users fall asleep. Deep Sleep Boost strengthens the deepest, most restorative stage of the night. Smart Wakeup completes the arc: a brain-aware alarm that protects the sleep you’ve built rather than shattering it at the finish line.

What 6,200 Nights of Brain Data Told Us

Smart Wakeup was built on data. An internal analysis of approximately 6,200 nights from roughly 1,300 Muse users, each tracked with detailed brainwave analysis across every sleep stage and paired with morning mood ratings. 1

The biggest factor in morning mood? Sleep duration - by a wide margin. But among users who already slept well (seven-plus hours, high efficiency—about 26% of nights), waking during lighter sleep was associated with a noticeably better morning mood than waking from deeper stages. 2 When sleep needs are met, the transition out of sleep becomes the next factor you can actually improve. Light sleep is the brain’s natural exit ramp and catching that window means a clearer morning.

Smart Wakeup won’t rescue a bad night, but for people who sleep well, it delivers a measurable improvement by timing the alarm to the brain’s readiest moment. Sleep better, then wake smarter.

Why Your Alarm Hits a Different Brain Every Morning

Your brain doesn’t cycle through sleep stages at the same clock time every night. Muse’s data shows that REM-rich periods—which dominate the final hours of sleep—drift from night to night, shifting with travel, schedule changes, and your body’s own internal clock. 3 A 7:00 AM alarm that catches light sleep on Monday might pull you out of deep sleep on Friday. That matters because sleep inertia—the grogginess that follows an abrupt awakening—is significantly worse when you’re pulled out of deep sleep. 4

How Smart Wakeup Works

You set a wake window, 30 to 60 minutes, and a latest wake time. During that window, Muse reads your brain activity in real time and starts a gentle, gradual audio rise the moment it detects lighter sleep. If no lighter-sleep window appears, the system wakes you by your set time.

“There’s a moment every morning that nobody’s ever had control over—when the alarm fires and your brain gets pulled out of whatever stage it’s in. Smart Wakeup gives you control over that moment for the first time.” — Nadia Kumentas, Chief Marketing Officer, Muse

Why Muse Is Different

Most smart alarms estimate sleep stage from motion or heart rate. Muse reads brain activity directly using EEG, the same type of measurement used in hospital sleep labs. 5 When the entire point of a smart alarm is acting on the right sleep stage at the right moment, the difference between measuring brain activity and estimating it from wrist movement is not incremental. It’s foundational.

What’s Next

Smart Wakeup launches today with its core brain-guided wake window. Planned 2026 expansions include:

Availability

Starting April 15, 2026, Smart Wakeup requires a Muse Premium subscription and is compatible with Muse S (Gen 1), Muse S (Gen 2), and Muse S Athena on iOS and Android. Deep Sleep Boost and Sleep Assist are included free with every Muse S device.

About Muse by Interaxon Inc.

Muse is a brain health platform built on the world’s largest consumer brain wave dataset—over 1 billion minutes decoded to date. Muse’s AI-driven tools support sleep, focus, and stress management for consumers, while powering more than 200 third-party-led studies from institutions including the Mayo Clinic, MIT, and Harvard. Muse S Athena, featuring combined EEG and fNIRS sensors, is the company’s most advanced device. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Learn more: choosemuse.com

 

Smart Wakeup uses real-time brainwave monitoring to find the lightest moment in your sleep cycle before gently waking you.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — The rapper Offset, a former member of the influential hip-hop trio Migos, was shot outside a Florida casino and is in stable condition, a spokesperson said Tuesday.

Offset, who was once married to Cardi B, was being treated at a hospital after Monday night's shooting, the spokesperson said in a statement, although his exact condition was unknown. Police said the injuries were not life threatening.

More than three years ago, Offset’s cousin Takeoff, another member of Migos, was shot and killed at a Houston bowling alley.

The shooting followed a fight, police said. A rapper known as Lil Tjay, Tione Jayden Merritt, was arrested for the altercation that occurred before Monday's shooting, the Seminole Police Department in Florida said. He was charged with disorderly conduct and operating a vehicle without a valid license, but he was not charged in the shooting.

A message seeking comment was left with Merritt's lawyer. The 24-year-old rapper is a stalwart of New York’s South Bronx scene, celebrated for his sing-rapping and pop-hip-hop style delivered atop drill beats.

While police said one person sustained injuries at a valet area outside the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida, they did not identify the victim.

A second person detained at the scene has not been charged and investigators were working to identify others involved, police said in a statement Tuesday.

Offset, born Kiari Kendrell Cephus, first made a name for himself with Migos. The Atlanta trio is one of the most popular hip-hop groups of all time, celebrated for their rapid-fire triplet flow, an often imitated delivery that changed the trajectory of trap.

Their career kicked off with the 2013 hit “Versace.” They then had several multiplatinum selling singles, including “Bad and Boujee,” which went No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 chart, “Stir Fry,” “Narcos,” and “T-Shirt.” Migos released four full-length albums across their career, closing that chapter after the killing of Takeoff.

Offset and Cardi B were secretly wed in September 2017 in Atlanta. In 2024, Cardi B announced that she filed for divorce. They have three children together.

The third member of Migos, rapper Quavo, sought to transform his nephew Takeoff’s tragic shooting into a force for change, holding a summit against gun violence in 2024.

Police said Takeoff was an innocent bystander when he was shot outside a Houston bowling alley after a disagreement over a dice game. Takeoff’s death was among a string of fatal shootings in recent years that involved hip-hop stars such as Nipsey Hussle, Pop Smoke, PnB Rock and Young Dolph.

Offset embarked on a solo career years before Takeoff's death.

Sherman reported from New York. Associated Press reporters Claudia Lauer in Philadelphia and John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio, contributed.

Police and emergency personnel respond to the scene of a shooting at a valet area outside of the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Fla., on Monday, April 6, 2026. (WSVN via AP)

FILE - Offset arrives at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, March 17, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)