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Apple released the HomePod Mini 2 and made it available for preorder.
After nearly six years, Apple debuted a new, improved HomePod Mini. The $149 HomePod Mini 2 will launch on Friday, October 30th, and you can place a preorder now through Apple. The speaker includes the S10 chip, which debuted in the Apple Watch Series 10, and it can power a host of features. It will […]
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13 October 2026
Google’s Gemini 4 Argon rollout grabbed the day’s attention, and not just because it’s being pushed out more widely. The company is offering the model through the Gemini API and paid Google AI subscriptions with an introductory price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens until November 30, plus a single 1M input/output token budget that forces teams to budget their requests more deliberately. Argon also comes with guardrails that Google is testing through its Fairwind Program—limited access at first, automated misalignment monitoring, and refusal systems tuned for misuse.
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