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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Agents at Home
One week before Apple's HomePad reveal, the free alternative just got agent-native. Over 2,000 integrations, zero subscription fees, and a $20/month undercut that changes the pricing equation.
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Agents at Home
With eight days until the expected launch, Apple's silence on the HomePad's cost is the most telling detail in a market crowded with subscription-heavy rivals.
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Agents at Home
Three devices, three price points, one AI. Apple is betting that bundled intelligence beats subscriptions and free alternatives. October 13 is the test.
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