John Reviews The Social Reckoning, Muse Wonder, Apple’s HomeView | Diet TBPN

*The Social Reckoning* functions as an antiquated time capsule, failing to capture the current reality of Meta’s pivot toward artificial intelligence and its shift away from the controversies of the 2010s. While Meta’s new "Muse Wonder" model demonstrates significant compute-backed progress, its status at the "AI frontier" remains debated, particularly as the company abandons industry-wide pacing efforts to accelerate development. Meanwhile, Apple’s "HomeView" smart home hub appears to be a stagnant hardware play, lacking the agentic capabilities required to compete in a software-dominated AI landscape. The recent arrest of an OpenAI employee for planting a recording device underscores the intensifying, high-stakes nature of the global AI race, where corporate espionage and national security concerns now intersect with rapid technological scaling.