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10 stories taggedsmart home.
SimpliSafe's New Doorbell Lets a Live Agent Watch Your Front Door and Warn Off Intruders
The $199.99 Video Doorbell Series 2 pairs AI detection with a human monitor who can speak through the camera when it spots trouble.
Amazon's Alexa+ comes to India with Hindi support and a long list of local apps
The upgraded AI assistant is now in early testing for all Indian users, free for Prime members after trials end and ₹2,000 a month for everyone else.
Google Is Letting AI Agents Like Claude Control Your Smart Home
A new Google integration gives third-party AI tools access to your lights, locks, cameras and appliance data. It's genuinely useful. It also raises real questions about who's really in charge of your home.
Ugreen Wants to Run Your Entire Smart Home From a Box in Your Living Room
A new platform called HomeAgent keeps your cameras, files, and AI assistant local, meaning your data never has to touch the cloud. No monthly fees, either.
Amazon's Alexa+ AI Assistant Is Coming to Your Fire TV for Free, No Subscription Needed
Amazon is pushing its upgraded AI assistant to millions of Fire TV devices automatically. Here is what changes, what stays the same, and whether you can opt out.
Google's Pet Memory AI Can't Tell One Cat From Another
A two-week real-world test found Google's new feature for identifying individual pets on Nest cameras keeps calling every cat by the same name, with consequences that go beyond the comical.
A $899 AI Litter Box Couldn't Tell Two Very Different Cats Apart
Whisker's Litter-Robot 5 Pro promises AI health tracking and facial recognition for your cats. Six months of testing found the facial recognition failing, the waste sensor misfiring, and one cat mysteriously losing two pounds overnight.
Martha Stewart co-founded an AI app that manages your home for you
Hint launches as a free iPhone app that builds a profile of your house from public records, tracks maintenance tasks, and answers questions about your insurance and energy bills.
Alexa Plus Can Now Run Your Washing Machine and Book Your Hotel
Amazon's upgraded voice assistant is learning to control dozens of new smart home devices and third-party services, using a new AI standard that lets brands plug in far more easily.
The Robot That Charmed the Internet Is Back, Sort Of, as an AI Memory Camera
A startup called Lingverse has raised $29 million to build a wearable device it calls the iKairos, invoking the spirit of the beloved Jibo robot. What it actually does is fuzzier than the AI images it generates.