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US authorities reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages

A lawsuit filed last week alleges tech firm ‘can access virtually all’ private communications, a claim the company has deniedUS authorities have reportedly investigated claims that Meta can read users’ encrypted chats on the WhatsApp messaging platform, which it owns.The reports follow a lawsuit filed last week, which claimed Meta “can access virtually all of […]

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The AI bubble will pop. It’s up to us to replace it responsibly | Mark Surman

When bubbles burst, what comes next can be better, if we build it differentlyIt was December 1999. Tech investors were riding high, convinced that a website and a Super Bowl ad were all it took to get rich quick. Spending was mistaken for growth; marketing was mistaken for a business model. In just a few

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Headshot of Bill Conner, former adviser to Interpol and GCHQ, and current CEO of Jitterbit.

Balancing AI cost efficiency with data sovereignty

AI cost efficiency and data sovereignty are at odds, forcing a rethink of enterprise risk frameworks for global organisations. For over a year, the generative AI narrative focused on a race for capability, often measuring success by parameter counts and flawed benchmark scores. Boardroom conversations, however, are undergoing a necessary correction. While the allure of

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Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers

Google has toyed with personalized answers in Gemini, but that was just a hint of what was to come. Today, the company is announcing extensive “personal intelligence” in Gemini that allows the chatbot to connect to Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube to craft more useful answers to your questions. If you don’t want Gemini to

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Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging

Moxie Marlinspike—the pseudonym of an engineer who set a new standard for private messaging with the creation of the Signal Messenger—is now aiming to revolutionize AI chatbots in a similar way. His latest brainchild is Confer, an open source AI assistant that provides strong assurances that user data is unreadable to the platform operator, hackers,

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New York Seeks Ban on A.I.-Generated Images of Candidates

Last year, the Cuomo campaign released a video created by artificial intelligence that depicted Zohran Mamdani eating rice with his hands. Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to ban such tactics.

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MIT scientists investigate memorization risk in the age of clinical AI

What is patient privacy for? The Hippocratic Oath, thought to be one of the earliest and most widely known medical ethics texts in the world, reads: “Whatever I see or hear in the lives of my patients, whether in connection with my professional practice or not, which ought not to be spoken of outside, I

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Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations

Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting users’ complete and extended AI conversations and selling them for marketing purposes, according to data collected from the Google and Microsoft pages hosting them. Security firm Koi discovered the eight extensions, which as of late Tuesday night remained available in both Google’s and Microsoft’s extension

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India revokes order to preload smartphones with state-owned security app

Tech companies including Apple and Google made it clear they would not comply due to privacy concernsIndia’s government has backtracked on an order for all smartphones to be pre-installed with a state-owned security app after a mass outcry over privacy concerns and refusal by technology companies to comply.The department of telecommunications confirmed it had revoked

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