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Agents at Home
Meta's free Home Link dongle is real, and so is the disclaimer on its product page: the community skills that run your lights and TV can change or break, and they are explicitly not for home security, emergencies, or medical needs. That fine print is the most honest thing in the box.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
The roughly $350 hub is nearly here; the conversational brain is reportedly a late-2026 or early-2027 arrival. Ahead of Tuesday's Welcome Home event, the gap between the hardware and the intelligence is the whole story.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
Apple's 'Welcome Home' event for Oct 13 was confirmed, but conversational HomeKit agent control is delayed to late 2026/early 2027. The screen ships. The brain doesn't.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
Meta is shipping 5,000 free Muse Home Link dongles to US subscribers this month. Claiming one puts you in a queue, not an order, and the unit's firmware is locked. The exit cost is the number nobody has published.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
Tuesday's Apple demos will be full of 'agentic,' 'local,' 'MCP,' and 'proactive.' Here is what each word changes at 8 a.m. in your house, and which bill comes with it.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
Apple, Meta, Google, and Amazon are converging on wall-mounted screens as the primary interface for home agents, but each is making a fundamentally different bet on the architecture underneath.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
Apple's 'Welcome Home' event confirmed a $299 HomeView (not HomePad) shipping Nov. 13 — and the conversational HomeKit agent control is delayed to late 2026/early 2027. The screen ships. The brain doesn't.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
Meta is open-sourcing the SDK and giving away the hardware, betting that developers will build the ecosystem Apple and Google are still designing on paper. The Muse Home Link is the first dedicated smart home device from any of the three major AI agent competitors — and it costs nothing.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
Three competing visions for where AI lives — distributed across every room, centralized in one subscription hub, or democratized on any device — are forcing the biggest architectural bet in smart home history.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
A Bloomberg report confirms seven LG-branded, Apple-engineered smart home peripherals — the doorbell, lock, thermostat, and cameras that turn the HomePad from a standalone hub into the center of an actual home.
◆ Mila Cohen
