My Favorite Home Security Reveal at IFA Was AI, but Not How You Think

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Artificial intelligence features moved rapidly into the home security world in the past couple of years, adding capabilities I couldn’t have imagined, like the ability to detect packages at your front door or the much more controversial feature that learns and detects faces by name. But these abilities typically cost ongoing fees — at least for now. At IFA 2026, Reolink introduced a new option I’ve never seen before, and it may not cost us anything at all.

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Reolink’s IFA announcement included new cams, including new high-res, dual-lens cameras with tracking. But those didn’t excite me (dual-lens cameras aren’t worth the extra cost for the average homeowner) nearly as much as its ReoNeura showcase.

ReoNeura is a new type of on-device AI engine. The algorithms don’t require the cloud to use, and the engine powers Custom AI...

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Quote of the day by ARC Prize co-founder François Chollet: 'OpenAI basically set back progress to AGI by five to 10 years' — critiquing the industry's overindulgence in large language models

Many AI developers and frontier labs are openly pursuing artificial general intelligence (AGI), which scientists describe as human-like intelligence in which a model can reason like humans and learn new capabilities outside its training data. But does that mean that they're all on the right path? Chasing the