Agents at Home
AI Agent Payments Are Coming to the Smart Home. Consumers Aren’t Ready.
Three protocols landed in 30 days to let AI agents spend your money. 75% of consumers aren't comfortable with any of them.
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Infrastructure
MCP Goes Stateless: The Protocol’s Biggest Revision Since Launch Reshapes How Agents Connect
The July 28 specification release candidate eliminates sticky sessions, shared session stores, and the initialize handshake — turning MCP servers into ordinary horizontal HTTP services.
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Agents at Home
Apple’s Smart Home AI Now Costs $9.99 a Month — and You Can’t Get It Any Other Way
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
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Infrastructure
Google Cloud Run Sandboxes: Serverless Agent Sandboxing Becomes a Native Primitive
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.
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Agents at Home
EU Gives Alexa, Google Home, and Siri Three Weeks to Start Admitting They’re AI
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.
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Agents at Home
Apple Sues OpenAI to Stall Its Smart Home Push — While Its Own AI Hub Sits in Warehouses
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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