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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.com/story/apple-homeview-smart-display) (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 (theverge.com/tech/1009680/apple-home-collectio…) (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.com/home/smart-speakers/apple-homepo…) (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.com/2026/10/13/apple-announces-new-app…) (9to5Mac)

• Meta introduces Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, saying that they “deliver state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agentic tasks” (research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder) (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 (thedeepview.com/articles/meta-s-muse-wonder-in…) (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.com/story/muse-wonder-puts-meta-back-at-…) (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.com/news/articles/2026-10-12/epic-ga…) (Bloomberg)

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