This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, May 5th, 2026.

We tell you what you need to know, give you the important context of all of it and help each other understand.

And yes, today, all the AI companies are talking to the U.S. government and Apple might switch chip makers, but also Bose released

a trio of new lifestyle smart speakers, and they are honing in on Sonos. Take that, Sonos.

Take that, Sonos. I'm Jason Howell. I'm Todd Merritt. We're going to start with what you need to know

with a big story.

Sonos getting its lashes from Bose.

That's the top story today.

Bose bringing back its lifestyle brand with a three-piece smart speaker lineup,

offering whole home audio.

That, like we said,

competes directly with Sonos systems, which we're going to talk about.

The Bose Lifestyle Ultra speaker, single standalone speaker. It can work standalone. It can also, you know, you can get a couple of them, put them into a stereo pair, or you could scale

it up and fill out your entire home theater system. But it's going to set you back.

Each speaker costs $349. And then the

Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar, $1,000, $1,100 at most compatible there with a matching lifestyle

ultra subwifor that costs another additional $900, basically, $899.

Each speaker has multiple finishes.

So, you know, a large part of this is because of the name, right?

Lifestyle, it's meant to kind of fit into your furniture and fit into your living room and not seem as much like an extra piece of technology that doesn't kind

of fit the aesthetic that you have. So you've got beige, black, white. None of those are really out

of the realm of the normal approach that we normally see with these technologies. But that's what

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