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Ep 2: Hundreds of thousands of merchants can now offer Prime on their own sites at no extra cost. · MAG 7 Daily

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  Hundreds of thousands of merchants can now offer prime on their own sites at no extra cost. This
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  is MAG 7 Daily, episode 2. At the top of the tape, those sellers can flip the option on
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  in minutes and leave checkout, payments, and store policies alone. Amazon says this is
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  for merchants already using multi-channel fulfillment in the United States, and the delivery
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  is fast and free for them and for the shopper. A new preferred pricing program cuts fulfillment
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  fees by as much as 25% across their own sites, other marketplaces, and social channels,
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  and Amazon is not asking for a contract. Google is putting new Gemini audio models into Google AI
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  Studio, Gemini Notebook, and the Gemini API. The post it linked is built around Gemini 3.8
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  text-to-speech. Vids and Gemini Enterprise are the next stops, and Google only says those are
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  coming soon. iPhone Handoff, new in iOS 27, parks one phone number on two iPhones and keeps
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  it live on only one of them. That is not the older handoff that just continues an app on
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  another Apple device. Unlock the second phone and calls, voicemail, iMessage, RCS, SMS,
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  MMS, and Find My move with it. And the screen says, switch to this iPhone.
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  T-Mobile is charging five per month in the United States, and Deutsche Telekom is charging
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  six euros and 95 cents per month, only on plans that do not already include Multisim.
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  Magenta Mobile L already includes one Multisim, and XL includes two. T-Mobile and Telekom
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  offer it now, Verizon and EESA later this year, and AT&T has not committed, pointing
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  pointing instead to the eSIM transfer tools it already has.
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  Both phones need iOS 27 or later, Wi-Fi, one Apple account, messages in iCloud, and FaceTime
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  an iMessage on that account.
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  And if you want the charge to stop, you call the carrier, because deleting the eSIM may
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  not end it.
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  Corei Kavuk Chua Glue, in his first press appearance running Google DeepMind, told the information
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  that Gemini 4 is in refinement.
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  The Verge reads that as Google closing in on a launch after lagging rivals on flagship models.
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  Apple told 9-5 Mac a software update is due early next week for iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro
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  Mac's units that freeze and reboot after Face ID fails. The site had written on Monday that the
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  pattern looked like software, not a bad part. Benzinga says Muse stays free and now shops at Walmart,
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  Mark, Sephora, and Best Buy.
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  After Meta had been testing a human concierge behind that agent.
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  That shopping list is the new commercial piece.
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  Nvidia says AI factories are coming online across Africa so developers and startups can get
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  compute locally.
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  More than 85,000 developers on the continent have trained through the Nvidia Deep Learning
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  Institute.
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  Egypt's participation grew more than tenfold in one year, and Nvidia says startups there
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  are using the stack for Arabic speech, health care, robotics, and financial services.
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  The cut against the prime on your site offer is that about Amazon asks whether it increases
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  sales and then does not answer.
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  What it does publish is mix.
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  Among early adopters, more than 40% of eligible orders on average shipped with prime.
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  Across the seven, the hardware split starts at 100 grams.
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  The weight Mac rumors gives Meta's new VR glasses.
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  That is 5 times lighter than a Quest 3, with full color pass through and a 5,000 display.
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  The same piece says Apple has shelved an AI pendant.
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  Zuckerberg used a one more thing slot at Connect for Muse charm, a puck about the size
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  of an Apple watch, with a Tamagotchi-like avatar you talk to.
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  He said the real time voice and avatar stack fits on a keychain, a tap on a corner fingerprint
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  sensor starts it, and you do not unlock a phone or open an app.
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  Meta wants charm on sale by the holiday season and says it will share more later this year.
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  The VR glasses are aimed at spring at a starting price of 1,300.
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  Meta promises cinema grade clarity, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, and up to three hours of high
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  resolution playback on one charge.
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  They run every quest game, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and a desk keyboard and trackpad when you connect
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  to PC or a Mac.
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  An M5 Apple Vision Pro, for scale, weighs 750 to 800 grams depending on the setup.
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  An audio-only Rayban, pitched against the pervert glasses label, plays media and takes
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  calls for up to 12 hours, and the case adds up to 48.
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  The camera Rayban Meta Refresh is slimmer, adds a Meta AI button, and is said to last 9
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  hours against 8 on the previous model.
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  A 6-microphone array is supposed to cut more than 90% of background noise.
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  The 12 megapixel camera shoots 3,000 video, Dolby Ammo's spatial audio is coming soon
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  and prices start at 449.
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  An FDA-cleared hearing boost arrives later this year, inside a meta-1 subscription or
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  as a one-time cost of 149, with a 30-day free trial.
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  Prime Big Deal Days is back October 6th and 7th. Pre-orders are open for those audio-only
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  Rayband Glasses. They ship October 13th and they start at 349.
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  Before we go, the nearest date on that list is Prime Big Deal Days, October 6th and 7th.
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  That's Mag 7 Daily for today. Nothing in this show is financial advice. I'm Patrick
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  in Vancouver. See you tomorrow. One more thing. If you like today's episode, our sister
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  This episode used AI voice synthesis of my voice.
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  Editorial selection and analysis are my own.