HomeView
Notes de l’épisode
Apple’s Welcome Home event brought the $299 HomeView smart display, LG and Schneider smart home gear, and a HomePod mini 2. Meta’s Muse Wonder caught up to the frontier, and Epic delayed a game over “no more hand-written code.”
- Apple unveils the $299 Apple HomeView, a 7" smart display with an A18 chip, tabletop and wall-mounted versions, and “HomeView software”, shipping November 13 (Wired)
- Apple Home Collection, made with LG and Schneider: a $349 LG smart lock with Home Key, a $249 video doorbell, $199 indoor and $299/$399 outdoor cameras, and $199 thermostats, with locks and thermostats arriving in December (The Verge)
- Apple’s HomePod mini 2 costs $149.99, up from the $129 original, with an S10 chip, new Green and Pink colors, and Siri AI coming later in a free update; it ships October 30 (TechRadar)
- New Apple TV 4K gets an A19 chip, Siri AI, far-field mics and an upgraded Siri Remote with Find My; it costs $299 and ships November 13 (9to5Mac)
- Meta introduces Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, saying that they “deliver state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agentic tasks” (Meta)
- Muse Wonder builds on Muse Spark with “active memory” and “active focus,” beats Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 4 Argon on Artificial Analysis’ index but still trails Opus 5.5, and costs $4/$20 per million tokens (The Deep View)
- Zuckerberg’s expensive AI reboot appears to be paying off: Muse Wonder puts Meta back at the frontier, beating GPT-6 Astra and both Claude models on some legal and coding benchmarks (Wired)
- Sources: Epic has delayed the release of an upcoming game, instructing developers to implement an “AI first” production model with “no more hand-written code” (Bloomberg)
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