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Consumer AI agents, personal assistants, smart home integration, and daily-life automation.
Infrastructure
The July 28 specification release candidate eliminates sticky sessions, shared session stores, and the initialize handshake — turning MCP servers into ordinary horizontal HTTP services.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
Apple has joined Google and Amazon in gating smart home AI behind subscription paywalls. With 52% of consumers already canceling subscriptions, the smart home is becoming the next battleground.
◆ Mila Cohen
Infrastructure
Google's Cloud Run sandboxes bring deny-by-default networking, credential isolation, and filesystem overlay to agent workloads as a native feature – no additional cost, no container overhead. The ADK integration makes it a one-line addition to agent code.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
Article 50 of the EU AI Act forces voice assistants to disclose their nature at first interaction starting August 2. Amazon, Google, and Apple haven't said how they'll comply.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
A trade secret lawsuit targets OpenAI's smart speaker plans, but Apple's HomePad is stuck waiting on Siri AI, which now runs on Google Gemini. The $250M settlement adds a harm frame.
◆ Mila Cohen
Agents at Home
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 Cohen
Agents at 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 Cohen
Agents at Home
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 Cohen
Agents at Home
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 Cohen
Agents at Home
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 Cohen
