Valve’s $1,059 Steam Frame tries to make VR both streamed and standalone, Apple rebuilds Siri as a system-wide AI, and a day of supply-chain probes and legal takedowns shows how capability and accountability now move together.

Cheaper, more usable frontier models met everyday questions of cost and trust: from compressed inference and native-vs-cross-platform bets to streaming bills, storefront promises, and tools that let anyone see relativity or lost murals.