Podcasts, Touch ID for money and a faster Nox

Key points

• Nox can make a podcast episode, alone or with a co-host, and a private feed puts every episode in Apple Podcasts, Overcast or Pocket Casts.
• Payments, trades and checkouts can require your Touch ID or Face ID before they go ahead.
• "Always allow" now tells you what the rule covers and what still asks, before it's made.
• Cards that replace something show the change as a before-and-after.
• One daily limit covers all work nobody started, five dollars by default, with a breakdown of where it went.
• Nox starts answering about three times sooner: the median first word fell from 9.6 to 3.1 seconds in our tests.

nox.cool now makes you podcasts you can hear in your podcast app, lets you approve payments with Touch ID or Face ID, explains every "always allow" before you make it, and shows what changes before you approve it. Nox also starts answering about three times sooner. Everything below is available today in nox.cool's early access.

#A podcast, made for you

Ask Nox for an episode in plain words ("make me a five-minute podcast of today's AI news, with a co-host") and it researches the stories, writes a short conversation for two voices, records it and puts it in the chat with show notes and sources. Episodes run up to about fifteen minutes.

To hear it anywhere, open Settings › Podcast and switch on the private feed. One tap adds it to Apple Podcasts, Overcast or Pocket Casts, and new episodes arrive there by themselves. Want one every morning? Add Anchor from the agent gallery: a fresh episode at 7.

#Approve money with Touch ID or Face ID

Turn it on in Settings › Payments. From then on, anything that moves money (a payment or swap from an agent's wallet, a trade, a checkout, a paid service, a saved card) waits for your fingerprint or face, so an open laptop isn't enough to approve it.

#"Always allow" says what it covers

When an OK card offers to always allow something, tapping it now shows exactly what every agent may then do and what still asks. Then choose Make the rule and approve, Just this once, or go back.

#See what changes before you approve

When Nox wants to replace something, like the steps of one of your saved skills or text in a connected app, the card shows the change: what goes struck through, what comes in on a soft tone.

#One daily limit for work nobody started

Settings › While you weren't asking shows what routines, triggers, watches, goals, projects and the daily look cost today, by cause, with one daily limit on all of it (five dollars to start). At the limit, background work waits until tomorrow and you're told once.

#Also new

• Faster. The first word of a reply comes about three times sooner, and steps show as they happen.
• Edit any message on its card, not just emails: Slack, Teams, Telegram, X and more, including whether a reply stays in its thread.
• Notices on the device you're using, so your phone stays quiet while you're at your Mac.
• Live talk remembers your last calls, and a dropped line reconnects to the same call.
• Email aliases for each agent, with a trigger per alias.
• One press from iPhone's Action Button into a call, a voice memo or the message box.
• New connections: Finary, Gusto, Trello and beehiiv, plus Robinhood, eToro and Coinbase to look at, not trade.
• New agents in the gallery: Haggler (cuts software and bill costs) and Anchor (your morning podcast).
• Long replies carry on instead of stopping halfway, and a personality in your own words can now be a whole character.

Read the full story of voice on nox.cool in Talk to your AI agent, or sign in to try it.

#Questions and answers

How do I get a podcast from Nox?

Ask in plain words, for example "make me a five-minute podcast of today's AI news, with a co-host". The episode plays in the chat. To hear it in your podcast app, open Settings › Podcast and switch on the private feed.

Does Touch ID work in the Mac app?

Approving money with Touch ID or Face ID works in your browser and on your phone. In the Mac app, the card tells you where to approve it for now.

Is the background limit per agent?

It's one daily limit across all work nobody started: routines, triggers, watches, goals, projects and the daily look. Agents can still have their own daily and per-task limits too.

Where can I try all this?

Everything here is available today in nox.cool's early access, which is by invite for now.