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Running AI on Your Own Computer Is Getting Easier. Here Is What to Expect.
Privacy concerns are pushing more people toward local AI, software that runs entirely on your own machine instead of the cloud. The experience is genuinely promising and genuinely rough around the edges.
Dead Startups Are Becoming an AI Training Data Source
A growing market lets founders sell their company's digital leftovers to AI labs. The money rarely reaches employees, and the legal ground is shaky.
Anthropic Builds a Privacy Shield for Business AI Conversations. You Are Probably Not Covered.
Enterprise Frontier Safeguards keeps company data in customer-controlled cloud storage, not Anthropic's servers. Consumer accounts are out.
Apple Researchers Found a Smarter Way to Train Voice AI on Your Private Data Without Seeing It
A new technique from Apple ML Research could close the accuracy gap in speech recognition that learns from your device without your audio ever leaving it.
Apple quietly shrank the AI brain behind your iPhone's voice typing, and it matters more than you'd think
New research from Apple explains how it compressed a key piece of the always-on dictation system that lives entirely on your device, without wrecking accuracy or draining your battery.
Google's AI will remember you across every device and says it can't see what it knows
Private AI Compute is getting a persistent memory layer. Google says the keys stay on your phone, not in its data centres.
Meta's Muse Wants to Book Your Lunch, Find You a Sofa, and Remember Everything About You
The new AI assistant app hit 900,000 downloads in its first week. Privacy advocates say the data collection is the real product.
Clothes That Confuse Cameras Are a Real Thing Now. Here Is What They Cannot Do.
From patterned jackets that trick face detectors to a DEF CON demo that scrambled eleven detection systems, a small industry is sewing privacy protest into everyday clothing. The catches are real.
AI-generated songs and chatbot 'ghosts' are changing how we grieve
After Dolly Parton's death, a viral AI country song raised a bigger question: when artificial intelligence can imitate the dead, what does mourning actually look like?
SimpliSafe's New Doorbell Lets a Live Agent Watch Your Front Door and Warn Off Intruders
The $199.99 Video Doorbell Series 2 pairs AI detection with a human monitor who can speak through the camera when it spots trouble.
Firefox now has a private AI assistant and it will not remember a thing you said
Mozilla has paired Firefox Smart Window with Mistral's open-source models, and by default neither company keeps a copy of your conversations.
Snap's New AI Assistant Wants to Plan Your Day Before You Ask
Specs Intelligence connects to your Gmail and Slack calendar, then surfaces reminders and nudges without waiting for you to type a thing.
Meta Is Building Smart Glasses Without a Camera
After complaints that its Ray-Ban glasses enable secret recording, Meta is reportedly developing a no-camera version that still connects to its AI assistant.
Apple says its new always-on audio features never record you. Here is how.
A dedicated security chip in the new Apple Watch processes your voice and sounds in a sealed compartment, then discards the raw audio instantly. Apple says even Apple cannot hear it.
Apple's New Watch Features Raise Privacy Concerns
Apple's latest watches can transcribe speech and summarize nearby conversations without storing raw audio. Not everyone finds that reassuring.