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18 stories taggeddata privacy.
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 for now, with a $26 credit to start.
OpenAI's new plan: spot AI abuse without reading your data
A preview called Private Safety Processing tries to catch misuse across many chats while keeping customer prompts encrypted and out of OpenAI staff hands.
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 removing it is a waste of time and money.
Twitch adds opt-out for Amazon AI training, but your data is on by default
A new privacy toggle lets streamers and viewers remove their videos, clips, and chats from Amazon's generative AI training pool. The catch: it starts switched on.
ICE Has Taken DNA From Nearly a Million People This Year, Including Young Children
A WIRED investigation reveals the agency's DNA dragnet now feeds an FBI database indefinitely. Plus: Google Earth's AI backfire, a secret White House cybersecurity plan, and a SpaceX rocket that quietly hit the moon.
Asana built AI agents that share memory across your whole company, with a wall around the secrets
The project-management company's new system lets AI teammates learn from every task they touch, but blocks them from passing confidential information to people who shouldn't see it.
Palantir posts record profits, then its CEO calls the AI industry 'Marxist'
Alex Karp says frontier AI labs are quietly capturing companies' knowledge and expertise. His own results, though, show just how well his firm is riding the AI wave.
Broadway's New AI Thriller Has a Knockout Cast and a Three-Year-Old Argument
John David Washington stars in Disruption, a slick off-Broadway play about Big Tech and your personal data. The acting is terrific. The ideas, sadly, are not keeping pace with the headlines.
Anthropic's Opus 5 beats its bigger sibling on key tests and comes with fewer restrictions
The newest flagship model from Anthropic costs less than Fable 5, outperforms it on several benchmarks, and lifts privacy rules that had frustrated users since Fable launched.
Your Name Can Now Be Your Privacy Shield on Zoom
One venture capitalist renamed himself on video calls to block AI note-takers. It works. But the bigger question is whether anyone reads those transcripts anyway.
Do AI Models Really Need to Forget Everything? Apple Researchers Say No
A new study finds that much of what we ask AI to 'unlearn' barely mattered to the model in the first place, which could cut the cost of privacy fixes dramatically.
A Security Flaw in Claude's Chrome Extension Has Survived Eight Fix Attempts and Can Expose Your Gmail
The bug, nicknamed ClaudeBleed, lets other browser extensions quietly read emails and calendar events that Claude has handled. Eight patches later, it is still there.