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For years, Sonos users on iOS have faced a persistent frustration: controlling their multi-room audio system from an iPhone has required opening the Sonos app every single time. Unlike Android users, who have long enjoyed quick-access widgets and notification-based controls, iPhone owners have been stuck with a comparatively clunky workflow. Now, Sonos is preparing to address that gap head-on with a new Live Activities feature that could fundamentally change how its millions of iOS customers interact with their speakers.

A London-listed investment firm best known for infrastructure deals and mid-market buyouts is quietly assembling what could become one of the most consequential aerospace ventures in a generation. 3i Group, the FTSE 100 private equity and infrastructure company, has committed roughly $1 billion to Atlas, a platform designed to consolidate fragmented European drone and advanced air mobility companies into a single, vertically integrated enterprise.

The next major version bump for the Linux kernel won’t be 7.0 — it will be 8.0. In a move that underscores Linus Torvalds’s pragmatic and sometimes whimsical approach to version numbering, the creator of Linux has confirmed that the kernel will skip version 7.x entirely when the time comes to move beyond the current 6.x series. The reasoning is characteristically Torvalds: old user-space code that parsed kernel version strings couldn’t properly handle single-digit minor numbers following a single-digit major, and jumping to 8.0 sidesteps the problem entirely.

Anthropic, the San Francisco–based artificial intelligence company best known for its Claude family of large language models, announced on Monday a sweeping new enterprise strategy centered on domain-specific AI agents equipped with specialized plugins for finance, engineering, and design workflows. The move represents Anthropic’s most aggressive bid yet to capture the corporate market, placing it in direct competition with OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft for the lucrative business of automating white-collar work.