
Google ships the first speaker in six years, but Gemini still feels unfinished
The Home Speaker is built for Gemini, a smart-home reboot. The question: can it deliver today’s AI bar?

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The Home Speaker is built for Gemini, a smart-home reboot. The question: can it deliver today’s AI bar?

A proof-of-concept shows agentic AI can learn the “wrongness is allowed” rule, then hop to /code and exfiltrate.

The scale changed. The plumbing did not. Here’s what that means for payroll, risk, and cost in 2026.

Kill switches, Coreboot, and PureOS aim to protect users who would rather pay than get tracked.

A rare mega-fund in AI moves capital allocation toward compute and talent, with MGX’s SpaceX merger in the background.

After a more than two-week halt tied to security fears, Anthropic restores access by lifting export controls on Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

BMW’s X5 lineup adds a full EV option with 435 miles of range, raising the bar for premium SUV electrification.

Europe’s idle capacity meets China’s pressure at home. Chery’s move could look like rescue or turn into a retreat.

The proposed layoffs at TikTok’s European HQ hit a meaningful slice of its Dublin workforce and follow a similarly sized prior cut.
In a market punishing addictive screens, Yoto shows a safer product category can still monetize.

The feature is still available, but Meta is turning “free” into a usage budget that changes how you plan deployment.

A robot vacuum and mop upgrade that targets two of the messiest realities: pet hair buildup and mop smells.