Last week, Apple released iOS 26.4, which enabled support for voice-based AI apps to CarPlay for the first time.

Kwikset is the latest big name to join the Android Auto and CarPlay app ecosystems with a new app that allows drivers to control their smart homes directly from their cars.

Cars and phones are wholly different technologies and each has changed the shape of the world in their own ways. Both were invented within a decade of one another — the telephone by Alexander Graham ...