Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off
…With access to your email and messages, the AI agent can attempt tasks tailored to your workload. Shahine asked Scout to comb through all his data and make a constantly updated list…
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OpenAI Enables Marketing Cookies by Default for Free ChatGPT Users
…On Thursday, OpenAI sent an email to users laying out major changes to the AI company’s privacy policy in the US. “We’ll now use cookies to promote OpenAI products and…
Amazon Employees Show Up to City Council Meetings to Demand Limits on Data Centers
…AI development.” Microsoft employees have long raised concerns about AI furthering oil and gas production. Recently, employees at Meta petitioned against the rollout of tracking software on their laptops to train AI…
WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private
…This is different from other disappearing AI products where your conversations logs often remain on other companies' servers for many months.” Meta is also adding Incognito Chat as an option in the…
Bose Brings Back Its ‘Lifestyle’ Branding With New Speakers for the Home
…from Sonos in 2024, where an app update disabled and broke many features, and left Sonos customers angry. When asked if the new products are a way to capture those Sonos customers…
SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers
…The eye-popping figure is a sign of how hungry Anthropic is for computing resources needed to power products like its increasingly popular AI coding tools. The company’s revenue for the…
The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic
…Magnifica Humanitas isn’t going to immediately convince the AI industry to stop pursuing AGI any more than Pope Francis’ 2015 plea to preserve the planet halted the production of fossil fuel…
Anthropic’s Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think
…Jeetu Patel, president and chief product officer of Cisco, which is a member of Project Glasswing, told WIRED at the HumanX AI conference in San Francisco that Mythos Preview “is a very…
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code discreetly added to Meta’s AI app over multiple updates this year shows that the feature, internally called “NameTag,” identifies people captured by the glasses’ camera and, when activated, alerts the…
‘Uncanny Valley’: Nvidia’s ‘Super Bowl of AI,’ Tesla Disappoints, and Meta’s VR Metaverse ‘Shutdown’
…You don't need to necessarily buy into a new vision for the world to build with AI. You can build B2B products, you can build consumer tech products, you can build…