5 Reasons to Think Twice Before Using ChatGPT—or Any Chatbot—for Financial Advice
…Visit ChatGPT's “data controls” tab to change your settings. Even if you opt out of AI training, it can be risky to upload so much sensitive data about your money to…
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Google’s Newest Entry-Level Fitness Tracker Is the Screenless Fitbit Air
…There are, unsurprisingly, no Google Wallet integrations or YouTube Music controls here. Google is also expanding its accessory lineup with several new band options and colorways. The default Performance Loop, made from…
Sniffies’ Users Worry About a ‘Straightification’ of the Gay Hookup App
…Sniffies maintains that it will continue to own and control how its user data is stored, handled, and protected. According to the company, there are no changes planned to its data practices…
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
…One model detects faces, one crops them, and a third encodes them into biometric data. Only traces of the user interface are currently present, hinting at how the feature may ultimately work…
Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
…people in controlled experiments. Anthropic, which first revealed this behavior, recently said that Claude is most likely influenced by fictional scenarios involving malevolent AIs included in its training data. Imas says the…
They Built a Legendary Privacy Tool. Now They’re Sworn Enemies
…By building a vacuum-sealed, simulated environment for that app to run (“sandboxing”), GrapheneOS compartmentalizes the data of that app and gives users control over how much of it is accessible by…
Iranian Hackers Breached Kash Patel’s Email—but Not the FBI’s
…control over the Russian internet. If passed, though, the law could severely hinder 5G expansion in Russia given that there currently isn’t cell tower equipment that supports NEA-7. 33 Data…
The Humanoid Robot of the Future Is a 6-Foot-Tall Beefcake With a Chinese Body and an American Brain
…The Thor chip can run powerful AI models that allow the bot to make sense of its environment and control its movements, while the body features Unitree’s motors, actuators, and sensors…
The New Wild West of AI Kids’ Toys
…A Miko spokesperson provided a statement: “Miko includes multiple layers of parental control and transparency. Most recently, we introduced the Miko AI Conversation Toggle, which allows parents to enable or disable conversational…
Meet the Gods of AI Warfare
…Maven Smart System—the software platform built by Palantir that brought together disparate battlefield and other data on a digital map and displayed AI detections that could be deployed in targeting—was…