Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI
…Over the last year, WhatsApp has introduced a Meta AI chatbot into its app, which isn’t shielded from the company in the same way individual chats are. “People use AI in…
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Tech CEOs Think AI Will Let Them Be Everywhere at Once
…involved in testing and training his animated doppelgänger, Meta employees told the Financial Times, noting that this early-stage project has become a priority amid the development of various other AI characters…
These New Smart Glasses From Ex-OnePlus Engineers Have a Hidden Cost
…There have been some bumps since then, as shipments were delayed from an originally announced release date in February 2026, and one model in development was scrapped outright. Now, L'Atitude 52…
AI Just Isn’t Right
…In fact, the more time I spend with AI, the more capable I feel as a human fact-checker. Most physical media in the world remains offline. In Lost in Time: Our…
7 Ways to Get So Good at AI, People Will Think You Are AI
…Transcription failures aside, I’ve embraced experimentation, from generating AI podcasts to letting Claude organize my desktop files. (Some of this I talked about in my newsletter series last year, AI Unlocked…
Palantir Demos Show How the Military Could Use AI Chatbots to Generate War Plans
…Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional team, a Defense Department initiative for deploying AI in war settings. For the project, Palantir developed a product known as Maven Smart System, sometimes simply called Maven. Maven…
A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale
…Checkmarx, hit the development server pgserve, and compromised the web app library TanStack as well as the enterprise AI platform Mistral AI. The fallout has been severe. In addition to GitHub, TeamPCP…
WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private
…But as with any cloud system, chatting with Meta AI on WhatsApp will ultimately involve trusting Meta in the same way using WhatsApp for communication does. “A big part of our work…
AI-Designed Drugs by a DeepMind Spinoff Are Headed to Human Trials
…Last year, CEO Demis Hassabis said it would have AI-designed drugs in clinical trials by the end of 2025. Isomorphic Labs was founded in 2021 as a spinoff from Alphabet’s…
Google Maps Gets Chatty With a New Gemini-Powered Interface
…Years into the generative AI revolution, Google remains single-minded in its attempts to AI-ify all its software. The company’s annual developer conference, Google I/O, is scheduled for late…