No, Meta Is Not Scraping Your DMs to Train Its AI

No, Meta Is Not Scraping Your DMs to Train Its AI

I've been seeing a number of videos on my feeds circulating a serious, but perhaps not unbelievable, claim: The idea is, come Dec. 16, 2025, Meta will update its privacy policy to give itself...

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‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted

‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted

Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers' data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.

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Amazon Has New Frontier AI Models—and a Way for Customers to Build Their Own

Amazon Has New Frontier AI Models—and a Way for Customers to Build Their Own

Nova Forge lets Amazon’s customers train frontier models for different tasks—a potential breakthrough in making AI actually useful for businesses.

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In Myanmar, illicit rare-earth mining is taking a heavy toll

In Myanmar, illicit rare-earth mining is taking a heavy toll

In early 2025, Sian traveled deep into the mountains of Shan State, on Myanmar’s eastern border with China, in search of work. He had heard from a friend that Chinese companies were recruiting at new...

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OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets

OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets

OpenAI may soon be forced to explain why it deleted a pair of controversial datasets composed of pirated books, and the stakes could not be higher. At the heart of a class-action lawsuit from authors...

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Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules

Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules

Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence...

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