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Standalone consumer devices built around AI assistants, spanning voice pucks, wearables, keychains and robots from firms like OpenAI and Meta.
Judge Edward Davila said at a Wednesday hearing that he is "highly likely" to grant Apple an injunction against OpenAI, Bloomberg reported. The order Apple wants covers use of confidential information. For teams that hire from rivals, the exposure is the paper trail behind each hire.
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Hark, the startup run by Figure AI's Brett Adcock, launched Hark Pro free on web, iOS and Android, with $20 and $100 monthly plans for 2x and 10x usage. The paid plans buy more use of an agent that works in the background, so buying one depends on which errands it handles better than a person would.
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Meta's new pocket device opens its Muse agent with one tap and reaches the network over a 5G modem of its own. The modem is what lets an assistant stop inheriting Apple's and Google's app rules.
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OpenAI frames the conduct as ex-colleagues asking questions and a retained offboarding doc. Apple's response says the complaint is about an authentication bug and weeks of downloads.
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Meta says the Muse Charm, with a 2-inch screen, two cameras and 5G, ships in December, after the Muse app reached #1 on Apple's free chart. Meta is betting people will carry a second device for an agent whose demand so far shows up only as app installs.
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Relay stopped operating on Monday after OpenAI and Google added the same workflow-agent capability to their own products. Two of the other four closures in the same account went the same way, and the 42% failure figure quoted alongside them counts something else.
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Apple's July suit says departing engineers carried hardware designs to OpenAI. OpenAI's answer is that Apple's own habit of pushing work into personal iCloud accounts blurred the boundary it now has to prove was crossed.
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