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Agents at Home
Twelve months after Google and Amazon rebuilt their smart home agents on generative AI, Consumer Reports and The Vergecast confirm the same failure: neither platform reliably controls the devices it was built to manage. The pricing war to free only makes the structural problem clearer.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
Amazon drops the $19.99 monthly fee, making its AI assistant free on all Fire TV devices. The subscription model for smart home AI is dead on two major platforms.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
Apollo Automation's new hardware removes the technical barrier to local control, challenging the $600 annual cost of cloud-dependent ecosystems.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
Every major platform is building proactive agents that anticipate and act without being asked. But two-thirds of consumers are worried about the same platforms they're supposed to trust.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
By integrating the Model Context Protocol and Amazon Wallet, Alexa+ is evolving from a voice assistant into a protocol-level point of sale for the agent economy.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
The Pixel Tag, Gemini Intelligence features, and subscription tiers reveal whether Google is building an ambient agent layer or just a sophisticated upsell.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
Forescout Vedere Labs disclosed 15 flaws in TP-Link's Omada ZTP system. Two cannot be fixed in firmware. The enterprise networking push just hit a trust wall.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
A massive security audit at DEF CON 34 reveals that your smart camera isn't just watching your home-it's broadcasting it to anyone with a wildcard.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
A factory-shipped backdoor in 100,000+ consumer routers proves the smart home trust model has an infrastructure problem no software update can fix.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
ShinyHunters exploited voice-based trust to steal 4.9 million records. Now the industry is building AI calling features that depend on the exact same vulnerability.
◆ Mila Cohen
