> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://tech-24.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Apple Wants Your Kitchen Counter, Character.AI Wants a Buyer - URL: https://tech-24.ghost.io/apple-wants-your-kitchen-counter-character-ai-wants-a-buyer/ - Published: 2026-10-14T11:51:28.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-14T11:51:28.000Z - Description: Apple launches the $299 HomeView, Microsoft ships a record 1,400-plus security fixes, and Character.AI files for bankruptcy. - Author: Tech 24 Good morning. Apple finally put a screen on your kitchen counter, Microsoft shipped the biggest Patch Tuesday ever, and Character.⁠AI ran out of road. FEATURED ![Apple HomeView smart display](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/ed/e3ed0d98-3725-4d93-a0ba-fe57945726af/content/images/2026/10/Screenshot-2026-10-14-at-14.16.21.png) CONSUMER TECH • YESTERDAY ## Apple Puts a $299 Screen in Your Kitchen Apple unveiled HomeView on Tuesday, a $299 smart display with a 7-inch square screen and Siri AI. It comes as a tabletop model on a speaker base or as a wall-mounted version at the same price, with Schneider wall mounts from $59.95 on top. Pre-orders are open and it ships November 13. It recognizes up to six people and gives each their own home screen. The catch is in the fine print: Apple says face recognition only works if each person has a registered Apple Intelligence device on the same Wi-Fi, and some Siri AI features lean on a nearby iPhone or iPad. It won't be sold in the EU at all, because Siri AI isn't available there. The rest of the lineup: a fourth-generation Apple TV 4K with an A19 chip and far-field mics, now $299 and also out November 13; a $149 HomePod mini 2 on October 30, which gets Siri AI only in a later update; and a Home Collection of cameras, thermostats, a doorbell and a lock built with LG and Schneider. Sources: Apple Newsroom, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Wired, Daring Fireball Latest Stories ![Abstract blue digital security graphic](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1550751827-4bd374c3f58b?w=800&h=400&fit=crop) SECURITY • YESTERDAY #### Microsoft Ships a Record 1,400-Plus Fixes Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday fixes more than 1,400 vulnerabilities, its largest monthly release ever, one month after September set the previous record at nearly 1,000. One is already being exploited: CVE-2026-96951, a Windows Shell flaw that bypasses Mark of the Web, the warning Windows attaches to downloaded files. CISA has given federal agencies until Friday to patch it. Microsoft credits large language models for the surge in bugs found, and security teams say the volume is outrunning their ability to test. Fortra's Tyler Reguly suggests starting with the 26 Microsoft flaws on CISA's exploited list this year. Sources: Krebs on Security, BleepingComputer, CSO Online, Cybernews BUSINESS • YESTERDAY #### Character.⁠AI Files for Bankruptcy, and Disney Bids Character.⁠AI filed for Chapter 11 on Tuesday, five years after it was founded. Disney has agreed to pay $20 million for some of its assets plus a non-exclusive, perpetual license to its technology. The filing puts both assets and liabilities in the $50 million to $100 million range. The app keeps running during the sale, which should close in late November or early December. CEO Colin Adams says there's no bid yet for the platform itself, and it will be wound down if none comes. Disney's role has history: it sent the company a cease-and-desist last year, then hired former CEO Karandeep Anand as its CTO last month. Google paid $2.7 billion in 2024 to license the models and take back the founders. Sources: Reuters, TechCrunch, The Verge, Forbes #### AI investors should get ready for a BIG surprise Ignore this at your own peril Do you hold any of these AI stocks? [ ![Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/ed/e3ed0d98-3725-4d93-a0ba-fe57945726af/content/images/2026/10/image1-1.png) ](https://tech-24-links.com/aigt24watchvideo1) Wall Street insider Jason Bodner — the man who called Nvidia at $4.50 — says today’s AI stocks are about to hit a wall. And a completely different group of AI firms… names Wall Street is starting to ignore… are about to take off. This has nothing to do with SpaceX… A new chatbot… Autonomous robots… Or anything you’re likely hearing about. 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[Click here](https://tech-24-links.com/aigt24watchvideo1) to see if yours made the list. ![An empty conference room with a long table and chairs](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1431540015161-0bf868a2d407?w=800&h=400&fit=crop) SECURITY • YESTERDAY #### OpenAI Engineer Charged With Bugging an Executive Room The FBI arrested OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national, on October 9, and the complaint was unsealed Tuesday. Prosecutors say he hid an audio recorder, wrapped in toilet paper, in a USB port on the back of a TV in an executive conference room he had no access to. OpenAI found it on September 30. CCTV allegedly shows him checking behind that TV on October 5, the same day security found a similar device in a bag he left in another room. OpenAI says it used its own models to understand the device, has fired him, and has evidence he planned to plant more. Public statements so far don't say why. Sources: Justice Department, CNBC, NBC News, Fortune BUSINESS • TODAY #### ASML Can't Build Enough Machines Through 2028 ASML reported record third-quarter sales of €11.7 billion and €5.0 billion in net income this morning, and raised the bottom of its 2026 forecast, which is now €44 billion to €45 billion. It expects €14.2 billion to €15.2 billion in the fourth quarter. The line that matters: ASML now says supply as planned for 2027 and 2028 won't fully meet demand, even after the 30% capacity increase it had already set for 2028, and it's looking at going further. Some customers want to book machines for 2029 and 2030. Sources: ASML, CNBC, Reuters, Digitimes POLICY • YESTERDAY #### 400 Scientists Ask for an AI Containment Watchdog About 400 scientists from 34 countries, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, published an open letter Tuesday calling for an international body to set containment standards for cyber-capable AI and keep a registry of security incidents that would eventually be public. The near-term ask is concrete: frontier models should start out air-gapped from external networks, under independent oversight, because voluntary commitments aren't enough. It follows last month's White House accord, which Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI and Nvidia signed with no enforcement mechanism. Yann LeCun didn't sign. He argues the recent incidents are engineering failures, not existential risk. Sources: Reuters, PYMNTS, TRT World Watch This ![Glass office towers seen from street level](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1486406146926-c627a92ad1ab?w=800&h=400&fit=crop) BUSINESS • TODAY #### Accenture Makes Its AI Case to Investors Accenture holds its investor day in New York today. Its pitch is that AI makes clients need consultants more, not less. The worry is that AI shrinks the billable hours consulting runs on. The stock has swung hard on that question. It fell about 18% on June 18 after a guidance cut, then jumped as much as 24% on October 1 after full-year results. The Financial Times puts its market value at about $130 billion, up from $76 billion in June. Sources: Financial Times, Irish Times, Capital Brief, The Motley Fool Quick Hits **Qualcomm vs. Arm:** A follow-up to yesterday's Watch This: the jury found Arm breached its license and interfered with Qualcomm's Meta business, then awarded Qualcomm $2 in nominal damages. Arm won the four other claims, and the royalty question is still with the judge. **FBI:** Operation Lonestar Roundup searched more than 40 Texas homes and seized 187 laptops and KVM devices used as farms for North Korean remote IT workers; CrowdStrike, which assisted, expects the network to rebuild elsewhere. **Bumble:** It agreed to go private with Ithaca Holdings in a $1.3 billion deal at $6.05 a share, and Ithaca co-founders Ravi Gupta and John Hegeman become co-CEOs. | Number of the day Nvidia's share of China's AI chips | 34% first half of 2026, per IDC; Huawei 28% | | ---------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | Thanks for reading. See you tomorrow.