Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
Mercor is one of a few firms that OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs rely on to generate training data for their models. …
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Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show
… The company’s chips remain the gold standard for training large AI models, with customers spending billions to acquire the company’s hardware for their datacenters. …
Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI
… Mallory Knodel, a cryptography researcher at New York University, says it would be “great for people using chatbots that use Meta AI to have confidentiality and privacy within that exchange.” Crucially, that means Meta would not be able to access AI chat data for training, says Knodel, who along wi… …
Meta’s New AI Asked for My Raw Health Data—and Gave Me Terrible Advice
… Anything you share in a chat with Meta AI may be stored and used to train future AI models. “We keep training data for as long as we need it on a case-by-case basis to ensure an AI model is operating appropriately, safely, and efficiently,” reads Meta’s privacy policy about generative AI. …
This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts
… Chhabra says when data leaves the device and is uploaded to the cloud, it’s encrypted from end to end. Sabi’s AI models are able to train on the encrypted data rather than the raw neural data. …
Meta Is Developing 4 New Chips to Power Its AI and Recommendation Systems
… The MTIA 400, which Meta claims delivers performance “competitive with leading commercial products,” has been tested and is expected to arrive at data centers soon. …
Why Apple Might Put Cameras Into Its Next AirPods
… As Big Tech AI model makers and enterprising startups push further beyond text-based large language models, into imaging, mapping, and robotics, Apple’s popular, affordable accessory could be transformed into the 2026 equivalent of Google’s StreetView cars. “Getting information in, visual or even a… …
AI Could Democratize One of Tech's Most Valuable Resources
… A startup called Wafer is training AI models to do one of the most difficult and important jobs in AI—optimizing code so that it runs as efficiently as possible on a particular silicon chip. …
The Humanoid Robot of the Future Is a 6-Foot-Tall Beefcake With a Chinese Body and an American Brain
… Last year, security researchers claimed that Unitree’s robots were capable of capturing and transmitting data, raising security risks. …
Meta’s New AI Model Gives Mark Zuckerberg a Seat at the Big Kid’s Table
… Meta says that it built Muse Spark to be especially good at providing medical advice. “To improve Muse Spark's health reasoning capabilities, we collaborated with over 1,000 physicians to curate training data that enables more factual and comprehensive responses,” the company said in its blog post. …