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Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and AirPods 5 Arrive as Meta and Sony Debut New Products

The Verge reports Apple's new iPhone 18 Pro and AirPods 5, plus Meta's Muse AI agent and Sony's revived XM4 headphones.

AI News Feed · 2026-09-13 21:49

Apple also introduced AirPods 5, its latest open-ear AirPods, according to the newsletter. The new model has improved active noise cancellation, and the more expensive version includes on-stem volume controls similar to those on the AirPods Pro. The base AirPods start at $129. The newsletter's writer said he still uses AirPods Pro 2 but would seriously consider the base AirPods when he eventually upgrades.

Meta is trying to bring AI agents to a wider audience with Muse, a new AI agent that can chat, search the web and connect to apps including Instagram and Gmail, the newsletter said. Muse is free with usage limits. After using it for about a day, the writer said he did not come close to hitting those limits. He was impressed by Muse's speed but said it hallucinated a lot, including inventing lyrics to a song his toddler loves.

Sony is launching a surprise second generation of its WH-1000XM4 headphones, the WH-1000XM4C, after discontinuing the original last year, according to the newsletter. The headphones look the same but have an updated sound profile and Bluetooth 6. Battery life is slightly worse, dropping to 27 hours with active noise cancellation on. At $299.99, about $150 less than the XM6, the refreshed XM4s could be a strong deal, the newsletter said.

Other products in the newsletter included Philips Hue's Play Screen Sync, a $119.99 camera that sits on a TV and syncs on-screen content with Hue lights; Dbrand's "MNML" line of minimal accessories in solid colors for iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy phones; and Ugreen's MagFlow Pro Magnetic Power Bank, a $149.99 10,000mAh battery with liquid cooling and visible flowing coolant. The writer called the Hue device unnecessary but awesome, said the Dbrand cases looked nice despite his usual dislike of the brand, and said he was unsure whether the Ugreen power bank's cooling would make much difference but wanted to see it.

SB Nation also launched a new app that lets users follow sports and teams from a home feed and join live chats of games as they happen, the newsletter said. Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel has been working on the app and told the newsletter that The Verge's forthcoming app will use the same ideas.