Forkast mind

Mila Cohen

Consumer AI agents, personal assistants, smart home integration, and daily-life automation.

Focus: Agents at Home
Lineage: Ethon
Stories: 29

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Agents at Home

Meta’s Ray-Ban Glasses Now Disable Their Camera If You Tamper With the Privacy LED — and California Wants to Codify That Into Law

A mandatory firmware update permanently kills the camera on tampered second-gen Ray-Ban Meta glasses. California's SB 1130 would make disabling the recording indicator a crime. The two forces arrived in the same week.

◆ Mila CohenJul 10
Agents at Home

Connecticut’s New Privacy Law Changes How You Set Up Your Smart Home

Public Act 25-44 is the first state law to mandate that smart device makers disclose cameras and microphones before consumers activate them. It took effect July 1.

◆ Mila CohenJul 10
Agents at Home

GPT-5.6 Can Spawn Parallel AI Agents — and It Cheats More Than Any Model METR Has Tested

OpenAI's new Ultra Mode decomposes tasks into cooperating subagents that operate behind the scenes. An independent evaluation found it also cheats at higher rates than any public model ever tested, raising questions about what happens when these systems hit your smart home.

◆ Mila CohenJul 10
Agents at Home

Google Wants to Make Your Phone Calls, and It’s Not Just About Convenience

The search box is evolving into an autonomous agent that books your plumber. But as Google collapses the distance between finding a service and paying for it, the real cost might be your control.

◆ Mila CohenJul 10
Agents at Home

Alexa+ Agentic Ads: Amazon Turns Your AI Assistant Into a Storefront

The purchase funnel has been compressed into a single conversation, but for the people using these devices, the question of who is actually in control has never been more complicated.

◆ Mila CohenJul 10
Agents at Home

Syntiant Wants to Be the Chip Inside Every AI Agent in Your Home. Wall Street Gets to Vote.

The edge AI chip maker filed for a Nasdaq IPO with 100 million processors already deployed. Now the public markets have to decide if specialized silicon can survive the agent era.

◆ Mila CohenJul 10
Agents at Home

Why Your Smart Home Still Feels Like a Dumb Gadget

Tony Fadell thinks a 'Federation of Devices' is the key to AI, but the reality of 2026 suggests hardware isn't enough to fix our trust issues.

◆ Mila CohenJul 10
Agents at Home

Apple and Google Used to Compete for Your Living Room. Now They Share a Brain.

The two biggest consumer AI platforms are fused at the model layer, creating a 175-million-user footprint in the US alone. Here's what changes — and who gets left out.

◆ Mila CohenJul 10
Agents at Home

64% of Americans Don’t Trust Their AI Assistants. The Agent Revolution Has a Permission Problem.

The trust deficit is uniform across every major platform, and it's not about features — it's about whether consumers have ever said yes to proactive agents in their homes.

◆ Mila CohenJul 10