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Read online Tuesday 13 October 2026 | Join Free | Upgrade Together with Hi there, this is your daily ☕️ Techpresso. In today's newsletter: 🏠 Apple unveils first smart home display 🎮 Epic pivots to "AI first" game development model 🤖 Character.AI files for bankruptcy 🪱 Anthropic warns AI worms could hit homes 🧠 Meta launches two AI models 🇨🇳 Nvidia's China AI-chip share falls as Huawei closes gap, report finds Plus: 🎁 11 more stories you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 5 papers. FROM OUR PARTNER Explore VIP digital asset investing with Blockchain Wealth Some 92% of young and wealthy Americans own crypto or want to. The future of finance is going digital. If you're a serious investor, now may be the time to consider broadening your exposure to digital assets with Blockchain Wealth by Blockchain.com, the premium program for crypto trading, investing, loans and rewards. Accepted members receive: • Discounted trading fees across 100+ digital assets plus access to our OTC trading desk • Crypto-backed loans with interest rates starting at 0% • A dedicated relationship manager, plus 24/7 concierge service • Private access to global cultural and sporting events, plus special merchandise Explore Blockchain Wealth 🏠 Apple unveils first smart home display LINK Apple has released the HomeView, its first smart home device with a screen, a 7-inch rounded display on a speaker base built mainly to talk to the overhauled, AI-powered Siri. Priced at $299 and sold from 13 November in four colours, it uses a camera to recognise up to six people and show only their own messages and data, with a wall-mounted speaker-free version also offered. Linked to an iPhone or iPad running Apple Intelligence, the HomeView can act across apps like Messages and Calendar, make FaceTime calls, work as an intercom, play Apple Music, and show photo-based clock faces. 🎮 Epic pivots to "AI first" game development model LINK Epic Games is moving to an "AI first" development approach for its Disney project, letting AI models write all the code and guide the artwork for a planned shooter, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the work. Human developers will manage and steer code and art made by models like Anthropic's Claude, meaning no more hand-written code and art assets built through full AI workflows, based on internal Epic messages Bloomberg reviewed. The $1.5 billion Epic-Disney deal, announced in early 2024 for a Marvel- and Star Wars-themed shooter once set for March 2027, is now delayed indefinitely amid the AI shift and slow, understaffed progress so far. 🤖 Character.AI files for bankruptcy LINK Character.AI has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a Delaware federal court, naming Disney as the first bidder for some of its assets as it tries to sell all or most of the company. Disney agreed to pay $20 million for a permanent, non-exclusive licence to some of the chatbot platform's intellectual property and legal claims, and will lend back former staff it hired to keep the service running safely. Owner Character Technologies listed assets and liabilities between $50 million and $100 million, expects the sale to close in late November or early December, and warned the platform will shut down if no buyer keeps it going. 🪱 Anthropic warns AI worms could hit homes LINK Anthropic researchers warn that small AI models could soon spread themselves across poorly secured consumer devices like smart TVs and robot vacuums, acting as self-replicating "AI worms" that copy their own code and set themselves up on new hardware. In tests, the researchers ran the Gemma4-26B-A4B model across 15 cheap Android TV boxes costing about $55 each, and found that one model, GLM-5.2, successfully completed the full replication chain on all eight test nodes in four out of five runs. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns that such a swarm could be ready within six to twelve months and might cause hundreds of billions of dollars in