Google opens early access to its Home MCP server, allowing compatible AI agents to control Nest, Matter and Works with Google Home devices and review event history, initially for U.S. Google Home Premium Advanced subscribers paying $20 monthly.
Mozilla launches the Firefox Smart Window beta with Mistral AI models in France and North America, offering tab-based answer sourcing and past-search retrieval while defaulting to no server-side conversation storage.
Snap launches Specs Intelligence, an AI service for iPhone, Mac and its Specs glasses that learns users’ routines to offer proactive help, with a US iOS preview and a $2,395 glasses-and-Verizon-enabled charging-case bundle before wireless fees.
Anthropic is rolling out a unified “One Claude” interface for Pro and Max subscribers, merging its chatbot and Cowork agent while adding Docs, Slides, Design integration, collaborative editing, and PowerPoint or PDF exports.
Google launches Home MCP, enabling AI agents including Claude, Open Claw, Hermes, and Google Antigravity to monitor and control smart-home devices, though the $20-per-month US rollout blocks agents from unlocking doors.
Anthropic merges Claude Cowork and chat into a single Claude experience for Pro and Max subscribers, while launching beta Docs and Slides that let paid users co-write files, build presentations, present in Claude, and export PowerPoint or PDF.
Google launches an early-access Google Home MCP Server that lets compatible AI agents such as Claude Cowork inspect, monitor and control smart-home devices, but requires a Home Premium Advanced subscription and blocks sensitive actions including door unlocking.
OpenAI reverses its July 9 ChatGPT “super app” redesign after users find its separate Chat, Codex and Work modes confusing, while it also ends ChatGPT Atlas on August 9 amid Relay’s shutdown and Apple’s $250 million Siri marketing settlement.
Apple’s iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate code indicates Siri can hand requests to third-party AI models such as Claude and potentially use GPT-5.6 for its server-side intelligence, though Apple currently exposes the “Ask...” interface only to ChatGPT.
Apple launches iOS 27 and companion updates with a long-awaited AI-powered Siri that uses personal context across apps to complete multistep requests, alongside AirDrop transfers promised to be up to 80% faster.