Tag: privacy
Meta denies its Muse agent read a user’s private messages
The company says the Mac app's Messages access is opt-in, but trust is the harder problem.
Apple moves image provenance from the editing chain to the sensor
Apple's Reference Image mode signs pixel data at capture and shifts provenance trust onto its own cloud.
DeepMind keeps cloud memory encrypted behind device-held keys
Google DeepMind detailed a persistent memory layer for Private AI Compute that encrypts user context in cloud enclaves…
MIND banks $72M to chase data leaks inside AI tools
Seattle data security company MIND has raised a $72M Series B led by Crosspoint Capital Partners for AI-native…
Meta faces class action over photos behind NameTag and image models
Parents in Illinois and California say Meta mined family photos from Facebook and Instagram without consent to build…
Clearview tests an AI analyst that profiles people for police
An unreleased prototype called InquiryIQ fans out across the web to assemble employers, aliases and associates from a…
Meta dangles 95% Muse Spark discounts to gather training data
Users who share their prompts and outputs with Meta pay pennies per million tokens on the agentic model.
Perplexity splits Mac tasks between cloud and local models
Perplexity's Mac app splits tasks between cloud models and a local privacy gate.
Instinct scores $250M Series B to run your daily life
Life-organizing AI assistant Instinct raised $250 million at a $2.5 billion valuation.
ChatGPT Work signs into your web accounts all by itself
ChatGPT Work can now store login cookies in its cloud browser and sign into your accounts on its…
Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork into one shared memory
Claude chat and Cowork now share one memory, so agents start tasks with everything you have already told…
Google opens a compiler that runs AI on encrypted data
Google's open-source HEIR compiler rewrites pre-trained models to run inference on encrypted data.