Apple will ship its $299 HomeView hub on Nov. 13, with Siri AI as the selling point. The Wearables, Home and Accessories line it joins reported $7.88 billion in the June quarter, about 7% of revenue, so the hub is a small bet beside the iPhone.
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OpenAI updated its ChatGPT Chrome extension so Chat can read open tabs and the Work agent can send messages and fill out forms. The Verge compares Work's tab control to Gemini's auto browse, and Engadget says OpenAI retired its own browser on August 9.
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Apple's CEO argues Siri can lean on what your iPhone already holds
Apple CEO John Ternus argued in a TIME interview that Siri does not need to win the AI intelligence race, Tom's Guide reported. The new US Siri draws on Google's Gemini technology, so Apple's bet rests on what the phone already holds.
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buildOne report1 publisher Google starts rolling out Gemini skills in the Gemini app and pauses the Workspace rollout, per a DEV Community guide
Google paused the Workspace rollout of Gemini skills on October 13 while the Gemini app rollout continues, a DEV Community guide reports. Business accounts lose Gems from March 1, 2027 at the earliest, and the pause has no end date.
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MacPaw launched Eney for Mac and iPhone, an assistant that says it spots what needs attention and asks for approval before it acts. 9to5Mac credits local models now capable of complex tasks, though demanding work still goes to the cloud.
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FBI charges OpenAI engineer with planting a recorder behind a meeting-room TV
OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan was arrested by the FBI on 9 October over a recording device allegedly planted in a meeting room. According to the complaint, he used AI assistants to check room schedules and learn to build and remotely access the device.
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Apple sells the $149 HomePod Mini 2 and $299 Apple TV 4K on Siri AI
Apple opened pre-orders for the $149 HomePod Mini 2 and $299 Apple TV 4K, replacing hardware last updated in 2020 and 2022. Pairing four speakers with the TV box for surround sound costs $895 at the announced prices.
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Apple will not sell its $299 HomeView smart display in the EU because Siri AI is unavailable on iOS there, the company said. It offered no date, so EU buyers have nothing to plan around.
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Amazon is replacing its Fire tablets with three Alexa Tablets that run Google Play and cost $229.99 to $549.99. The old Fire line started at $59.99, Gizmodo reported, so the cheapest Amazon tablet now costs nearly four times as much.
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Microsoft retires Group Chat, Podcasts, Copilot Labs and consumer Deep Research on August 18, and demotes its mascot the same day. Anyone building on Copilot should price in the churn.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers OpenAI's Intelligent UI lets GPT-6 put working calculators, forms and charts inside ChatGPT answers, in a rollout that began October 7. Rival chat products will now be judged against answers users can operate, built from a component set that also limits what ChatGPT can make.
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Amazon's Panos Panay lets slip Neo, a design language meant to connect its Alexa devices
Amazon devices chief Panos Panay let slip Neo, a new design language, as the Alexa Tablet became the first Amazon hardware named for its assistant. The Alexa name now sits on a device while Alexa+ is still labelled a preview.
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Nightclubs, restaurants and DEFCON banned Meta glasses because they film. The new audio pair drops the camera, keeps the microphones and the Muse agent, and from the front it looks like an ordinary Ray-Ban.
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buildOne report1 publisher Conway plans to fund its on-device Underdog assistant with a cut of the purchases it handles
Conway Research's Underdog runs a 27-billion-parameter assistant model on users' own computers and plans to fund itself with a cut of purchases. Its revenue depends on how often users trust it to complete a checkout.
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Underdog's on-device AI assistant will earn its money from a cut of the purchases it makes
Sigil Wen's Underdog runs a 27-billion-parameter AI assistant entirely on users' own Macs and Windows PCs. Privacy then depends on where the model runs, and users pay for it with a smaller model and a vendor that earns when the assistant spends.
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Apple has priced the iPhone 18 Pro from £1,199, £100 above last year's models, a rise the Guardian blames on memory costs. Its faster chip and longer battery are real gains, but they make a thin case for retiring year-old company phones early.
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Meta is rolling out Edits Assistant, a chatbot that reads creators' Reels retention, shares and follows, with higher usage limits sold from $14.99 a month. Free use stops at a daily cap Meta has not published, so creators cannot tell in advance where the paywall starts.
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Shopify's Ben Sehl says the company's new Canvas editor cuts a fully custom store build from two weeks of coding to about 20 minutes. Small merchants who once paid developers and agencies for that work can now do it themselves, while multi-region sellers wait on tools Canvas still lacks.
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WhatsApp extended its parent-managed controls to teen accounts, letting parents move Meta AI from its 13+ default to a stricter Limited Content mode. The controls are optional, so the tighter limits apply only in families that turn them on.
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Choosing Work over Chat in paid ChatGPT spends more quota on OpenAI's top models
OpenAI now requires paid ChatGPT users to choose between Chat and Work modes, according to a Fast Company writer who uses both heavily. The choice decides whether a team gets links to act on or a finished file, and how fast it spends its usage quota.
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Earlier coverage
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- Meta Connect attendees walked past the AI glasses to line up for the VR ones
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Product · September 4, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- iOS 27 lands September 14 on the same iPhone list as iOS 26
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- Apple gates every new Siri AI feature to the iPhone 15 Pro and later
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Product · September 19, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- CMA keeps the yearly search prompt Google wanted swapped for a settings menu
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- Meta trades the cameras on its Ray-Bans for three more hours of battery
Product · September 23, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- A month in the iOS 27 beta shrank Siri AI down to a search bar
Product · September 6, 2026 · One report1 publisher