Engadget tried Apple's new Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini 2, focusing on the audio features and the Siri AI assistant as a companion while watching TV. It is an early look at how Apple is putting its AI assistant into living-room devices.
Flox Intelligence makes edge devices that recognize animals and play species-specific sounds to drive them away. The aim is to protect critical infrastructure such as railways, airports and roads.
Microsoft's Xbox is embracing the wave of AI-assisted decompilation and recompilation that lets fans port classic games to new devices or merge two games into one. Microsoft has already seen mods such as skateboarding in Call of Duty and Halo running in a browser.
Facebook's new 'Your Algorithm' feature lets users add and manage the topics they want to see in their feed and Reels, marking them as interesting or not. Meta says recommendations react immediately; the feature launched earlier on Instagram.
Google is making it easier to build and use personal Android apps made with AI without publishing them to everyone on the Play Store. The change lowers the barrier for people creating apps for their own use.
Shopify will let shoppers set up AI agents to buy products for them, opening its catalog of over a billion listings to more agents. It extends the company's push into agentic commerce.