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Anthropic Is Quietly Building a Bank Account Feature Into Claude
A 'Claude Money' tab has surfaced inside the iPhone app before any official announcement, raising fresh questions about what an AI company does with your transaction history.
Your Colleagues Are Now the Noisiest Alarm in the Company Security Room
Security teams built their systems to catch hackers. The loudest signal on their screens is now their own staff logging into AI chatbots with work accounts.
Meta AI Was Building Profiles of a Mother's Children From Old Family Posts
A viral video showed Meta's built-in chatbot compiling details about a woman's young daughters, including a photo she thought she'd deleted years ago.
Ukraine is selling drone war data to AI companies, and the rules haven't caught up
Millions of hours of battlefield footage are flowing to defence firms and tech start-ups. The data is valuable, the privacy risks are real, and almost nothing governs what happens next.
Perplexity's new hybrid AI keeps your sensitive files on your Mac while still using cloud intelligence
A built-in privacy filter decides in real time which parts of a task stay local and which go to the cloud. Lawyers, finance teams and healthcare workers are the target audience.
Police Are Using Flock's AI Camera Tool to Watch Anyone, Not Just Cars
Wired's analysis of Flock Safety's own browser code shows how its AI search tools work, where the guardrails fail, and why dozens of officers have already turned the system on people they knew personally.
Australia Proposes Its Biggest Privacy Shake-Up in Years. Here Is What Sparked It.
Facial recognition in shopping centres, 'pervert glasses' on sale at Kmart, and ad-targeting that poisons your social feeds. Australia's proposed Privacy Act changes are a direct response to all three.
John Deere Gives Farmers an AI Chatbot That Knows Their Own Fields
A new tool called JD lets farmers ask plain-English questions of their own historical farm data, for free, through John Deere's Operations Center platform.
Who Controls the AI? Europe's Founders Are Asking Out Loud
At TechBBQ in Copenhagen, a question ran beneath every panel, party and rooftop barbecue: what happens when Europe depends on foreign powers for the technology its economy runs on?
AI Origin Labels Can Mislead: Why Your Model's Roots Matter
New research reveals AI models can carry hidden risks from parent models. How should organisations respond?
Ramp Launches 'Router': A Service That Lets You Switch Between AI Models in One Place
The corporate expense software company is now selling access to AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek and others through a single service, free through 2026, with a $26 credit to start.
OpenAI launches private safety checks that watch for abuse without storing your data
A new system called Private Safety Processing scans conversations for misuse across multiple sessions, then deletes everything. It is a direct shot at Anthropic, which keeps customer data for 30 days under its newest policy.
Google bought Spirit Airlines' employee records. Workers are alarmed.
A bankruptcy auction last Friday handed Google a vast trove of Spirit Airlines' workplace data. No passenger details are included, but thousands of current and former employees want to know: how safe is their information?
Sainsbury's pauses face-scanning AI after it wrongly accused a shopper of theft
Matt Arnold, 46, was ejected from a Sainsbury's store after its facial-recognition system misidentified him as a shoplifter. The supermarket has now paused the technology at that location while it investigates.
AI Models May Not Need to Forget Everything: The Case for Smarter Unlearning
New research from Apple ML Research suggests some training data has so little effect on an AI model that running a costly removal process on it is simply wasted effort.