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Apple wasn’t joking when it warned us that competitors want access to our most private data. Now, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has introduced a new plugin that can control Apple’s Messages app on Macs. This follows the earlier introduction of a new Computer History feature that monitors what you do on your Mac . And while I don’t think Apple will challenge the new feature — yet — on the Mac, I do see trouble…
With the launch of “Slack Code” channels, Slack this week introduced a new way for developers and non-tech staff to work collaboratively with coding agents . While Slack already integrates with several coding agents , developers have to interact with them independently to get work done. The aim of Slack Code is to make agents available to multiple coworkers in shared, project-based “code…
OpenAI is adding a new safety capability that allows enterprises to detect misuse of its AI systems across multiple interactions without retaining prompts or responses, enabling risk monitoring while preserving its Zero Data Retention (ZDR) commitments. “OpenAI does not retain…prompts or model responses after a request is processed,” the company said in a blog post, describing its ZDR approach.…
Apple’s latest filing in its ongoing fight with OpenAI makes it sound as if Apple legal is so frustrated at the arguments the AI firm is making that it’s begun swatting them away like a parent might dismiss a child. Apple v. OpenAI: The story so far If you’ve not been keeping up with tech’s latest legal soap opera, here’s the overview of what’s true: Apple filed a suit against OpenAI in which it…
After a week of using Google’s new Pixel 11 phones , two seemingly at-odds realities are crystal clear in my mind: These are truly fantastic devices that build off the many successes of the previous-gen Pixel 10 models and push the products forward in some subtle-seeming but significant ways. Tech reviewers are gonna have an absolute field day with these things and tear ’em apart for being so…
AI is known to be confidently wrong, and now it’s influencing humans to be that way, too. In a new study, researchers tested AI’s influence on humans reviewing innovation proposals, and found that AI recommender tools were persuasive enough to convince the evaluators to reject decisions made by independent human experts, thus causing them to pass on promising innovations. Similarly, they went…
OpenAI this week announced multiple moves designed to counter negative perceptions of its security and privacy, saying it had slowed its pace of scaling, implemented a two-week pause in reinforcement learning, and will be offering zero data retention for “eligible API customers.” In its first announcement , issued Tuesday, OpenAI said it “temporarily” slowed the pace of its scaling, in addition to…
The new Google Pixel 11 Pro XL doesn’t dramatically reinvent the company’s flagship smartphone formula. From a hardware perspective, this year’s model represents an incremental update. But after spending time with Google’s latest full-featured Pixel, I’ve found that some of its most meaningful improvements for business users aren’t necessarily the things that stand out on a spec sheet or benchmark…
Apple has changed its App Store fee structure in the EU in a move to further satisfy the requirements of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). While critics continue to argue the changes don’t go far enough, the European Commission welcomed the changes made and plans to monitor how they’re implemented. The new fee structure Specifically, Apple introduced a less complex system than it had offered before ,…
Almost eight months after confirming a critical security vulnerability within the personal version of its AI assistant, Copilot, Microsoft on Tuesday issued a patch to close the hole, which relies on an LLM’s inability to distinguish the data in a query from an instruction. The CoSnitch hole was discovered by Varonis, and marked the third Copilot bug that Varonis has reported to Microsoft this…
Diffusion models are becoming sophisticated enough that they can reproduce an image even when they don’t have access to the original. In a series of ‘what if’ scenarios, researchers associated with MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) swapped out different training datasets to test the impact on image outputs when original image data was completely removed. It turns…
Google has paid $10 million in a bankruptcy auction for a large amount of data from the defunct Spirit Airlines, Bloomberg Law reports . The purchase includes 100 million emails, 500 million messages, data from Microsoft Teams , as well as information on revenue, flight operations, marketing, personnel, and project management. The material also includes 30 million lines of program code,…
In recent months, hints emerged concerning Apple’s plans to introduce camera-equipped AirPods Pro ; the cameras would be designed to pick up details of your ambient surroundings and feed information to Siri to help you with your life. At one point, we heard the product had been pulled citing privacy concerns. But that doesn’t seem to be the case, as the latest seemingly orchestrated Apple “leak”…
