Happy Friday! Today's good news does not disappoint. Perfect for weekend chatter.
- Amazon launched humanoid robots. “Digit” is too cute. And also terrifying.
- Open AI made a ChatGPT guide for Teachers. Teachers get everything but 💰.
- Air taxis are coming to LA & NYC via Delta... But for premium customers first.
- WhatsApp will let you log into two accounts at once. Hooray for those managing work accounts!
Cozy vibes get an upgrade
I don’t see a ton of smart home products these days that catch my attention, but Relm, a smart, scented wax warmer, feels like it captures the moment — when mania around the chilly weather season is at its peak.
Relm launched yesterday on Product Hunt after blowing past its goal on Kickstarter. It now has nearly $50k in pledges.
Relm hopes to make aromatherapy easy with smart capabilities like temperature adjustment, light dimming, and custom scheduling that can be managed through your personal device. The latter seems like a great feature for those who can never remember if they blew out the candle before leaving home.
Connect Relm to Google Home, Alexa, and Apple Home, and you can do things like create custom schedules or use voice commands to manage your warmer. The modern design fits right in with the aesthetic of your smart products too.
Another key feature is the wax itself. Relm’s demo shows the user adding and removing wax with ease – a task that requires scraping with most wax products.
Relm feels equivalent to the Ember mug as a lifestyle concept. Do you need your wax warmer to be smart? No, of course not. But it brings the bit of extra you want on gloomy days and comes with some actually useful features.
It’s also a great gift idea for your friends who are obsessed with cozy comfort (that’s not just Americans – can you say “hygge”?).
Your agents stopped answering and started doing
Your agents call tools, write to databases and move money, so a wrong answer is now a wrong action, which is a considerably worse meeting. Arcjet runs policy before every LLM call, tool call, query and API request: prompt injection, sensitive data, bots, rate limits, spend quotas, and your own rules in Rego on top. It reads the OpenTelemetry you already emit, so switching it on is one environment variable, no code changes and nothing to deploy. Each check also reads the earlier steps in the same workflow, so an agent's tenth action gets judged against the first nine and not on its own. JavaScript, Python and Go SDKs all at 1.0, agent framework guards included, free tier to start on.
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