Apple's HomeView arrives in Canada as Anthropic warns AI could spread through smart homes

Apple has shown that it wants to put a screen on every Canadian kitchen wall. HomeView announced today, is a 7-inch countertop or wall-mounted display that recognises family members by face and controls the locks, cameras and thermostats around it. Pre-orders opened in Canada the same day, and units ship November 13. The news arrived just one day after Anthropic published research suggesting the cheaper gadgets sharing those homes may soon face a new kind of threat: compact AI models able to copy themselves from one connected device to the next without human help, running on the spare memory and…

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