ChatGPT's new image analysis capabilities, while powerful, raise privacy concerns as users can potentially identify locations from photos, enabling reverse location tracking and doxxing, prompting OpenAI to implement safeguards against abuse.
AI-driven malicious bots now dominate the internet for the first time, accounting for 51% of all web traffic while launching increasingly sophisticated attacks on APIs and user accounts with 40% more account takeovers than last year.
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI platform accused of data theft, spreading propaganda, and violating U.S. export controls by covertly funneling American user data to the CCP and training on material unlawfully obtained from U.S. AI models, has drawn scrutiny from Congress over Nvidia chip sales.
Apple is pioneering private AI by leveraging synthetic data and differential privacy to analyze user data securely, generating artificial datasets mimicking real data to enhance AI models for features like Genmoji, Image Playground, and email summaries while preserving privacy.
Meta plans to utilize public content and user interactions from EU users to train its AI models for better local language and cultural understanding, while offering an opt-out option to comply with regulations and enhance transparency.
Pioneering a privacy-first approach, researchers are developing secure AI agents that prioritize data minimization, encryption, and rigorous auditing to gain user trust, drive adoption in regulated sectors, and simplify compliance with privacy regulations like HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA.
Tailscale, a company pioneering identity-focused networking, secured $160 million in Series C funding to accelerate its mission of building a 'New Internet' that seamlessly and securely connects people and devices without relying on traditional IP addresses and infrastructure.
curl-impersonate, a modified version of curl, can impersonate the TLS and HTTP handshakes of major browsers, allowing users to bypass browser fingerprinting techniques employed by web services, promoting a more open and private web experience.
Major tech giants like YouTube and OpenAI are backing a bipartisan bill reintroduced in Congress, the NO FAKES Act, which aims to create new federal IP rights to protect against unauthorized AI deepfakes of people's voices and likenesses, aligning artists and tech on AI issues.
CompactifAI unveils LLaMA 3.3 70B Slim, a compressed AI model 80% smaller, 2.18x faster, with near-perfect accuracy, enabling edge deployment, lower energy consumption, and secure enterprise AI solutions while maintaining industry-leading performance.