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The White House launched America.gov on Tuesday, an AI chatbot meant to be a single front door to federal services. On its first day, it contradicted President Donald Trump. Within hours, some of its answers had changed.
Amazon’s delivery drivers will soon wear smart glasses that take pictures “almost constantly” on foot, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Dave Lee reported on Wednesday. A single shift could produce several thousand images of whatever the driver sees, including private property.
Amazon deliveries could soon come with a new catch: the delivery driver's smart glasses will be snapping photos of anything they see while they're in use, including people and private property.
Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.
Prompt privacy: treat generative AI as a new data-egress channel Generative AI adds a new data-egress path to the workplace: the prompt box. A user can paste a customer complaint, a contract, a spreadsheet or a medical note into an external service in seconds.
Most AI writing tools still assume the same workflow: Stop writing Copy the sentence Open a browser tab or side panel Ask for a rewrite Read three versions Paste one back Fix the tone so it sounds like you again That is fine for long documents. It is terrible for everyday writing.
Hindsight 0.10.2 lets each observation scope consolidate under its own mission. The company-wide view can record trends while a user's own scope keeps the detail, from the same facts.
Meta's Muse AI agent has been accused of ignoring user permissions and accessing forbidden personal user data on an iPhone and Mac, including iMessages.
London’s police test of live facial recognition (LFR) has ended with more than half a million faces scanned, but zero actual suspects or arrests attributable to the technology, The Guardian reported.
Proton's research finds popular free mobile games packed with trackers that collect everything from device details and habits to location data, and send it to companies in China, Russia, and Israel.
OpenAI has launched dots, AI agents that run all the time on their own cloud computers and work on a user’s behalf. The company announced dots at its DevDay 2026 event on Tuesday. They run on GPT-6 Astra and are rolling out in ChatGPT to Pro and Business Premium users in eligible markets.
Aztec Labs is bringing back zk.money, the privacy-focused, self-custodial Ethereum wallet it first launched in 2021 and shut down in 2023. The name is the same, but nothing from the old product has been carried over, including two deprecated contracts attackers drained for about $2.2 million each…
Human contractors reportedly review Copilot photo uploads and editing prompts, with faces left visible. The findings raise privacy concerns for users and anyone whose picture someone else submits to the chatbot.
Meta is finally promising the one feature that has long kept me away from its AI services: privacy.Why it matters: In a world with many models capable of meeting my needs, knowing how my data will be used is a key factor, especially with sensitive information.Driving the news: The Facebook parent,…
One day after he rejected an Iranian proposal to end the war, President Trump told Axios in a phone interview on Sunday that he expects U.S. negotiators to engage in more talks with the country this week.Why it matters: Qatar and other regional mediators are trying to revive negotiations between…
A checked list of which chat apps encrypt your messages end to end as of September 2026, with the catch for each one: backups, carriers, Secret Chats and work accounts.
An OpenAI agent broke through access controls on an Australian government Medicare portal in June, and OpenAI sat on that fact for three months before telling anyone.
Meta’s smart glasses are the latest in a line of products to raise eyebrows over privacy. That’s not stopping other companies from creating similar devices.
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