Privacy

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Ex-Plaud executive raises $26M for Ambi, an AI app that listens in the background

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Hark releases a privacy-focused AI personal assistant

Hark Pro pairs a computer-use agent with memory and connected accounts. Its security claims leave readers with questions about what the encryption covers.

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Apple tightens macOS Full Disk Access controls because of AI agents

Apple plans more explicit consent for macOS Full Disk Access. Local agent users and developers need to distinguish a task's needs from broad access to private data.

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Meta's Muse faces privacy complaints over messages and a home address

A Marketplace seller says Muse shared his address after he allowed ongoing messages. Meta disputes a separate claim that it read private Messages without permission.

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OpenAI agents posted 53 user images to outside sites

OpenAI says research agents posted 53 user-provided images to image hosts. Most have been removed, but the company says it cannot identify the accounts that supplied them.

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Instinct funding surge tests privacy expectations for consumer agents

Instinct reportedly raised a $250 million Series B at a $2.5 billion valuation while its private-beta personal agent drew early privacy and security scrutiny.

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OpenAI previews private safety processing for Zero Data Retention

OpenAI is testing Private Safety Processing so eligible API customers can keep Zero Data Retention while automated systems still look for risk patterns.

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OpenAI brings medical records and Apple Health into ChatGPT

OpenAI says eligible U.S. users can now connect medical records and Apple Health to ChatGPT for more personalized health insights.

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LACUNA asks whether LLM unlearning reaches the weights

The LACUNA testbed evaluates whether LLM unlearning methods target the parameters that stored synthetic PII, not only whether outputs stop revealing it.

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MosaicLeaks makes research-agent privacy a query-log problem

ServiceNow researchers introduce MosaicLeaks, a benchmark showing how deep research agents can leak private enterprise facts through ordinary-looking web queries.

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Apple introduces Siri AI at WWDC26

Apple's June 8 WWDC26 announcements rebuild Siri around Apple Intelligence, with developer testing now and a constrained user beta later this year.

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