… Most generative AI platforms now offer some type of “incognito mode,” but these features are usually designed to separate users from the questions they ask and the answers they receive rather than including a mechanism to entirely shield those questions and answers from the provider's view. …
… Muse Spark also features advanced reasoning capabilities, a key feature of the best AI models available today, and it was built from scratch to have strong coding capabilities. …
… 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… …
… And while IG’s recently launched “Instants” app, with its ephemeral, unfiltered snaps, is more like the once-popular BeReal than anything, disappearing photo messages are totally Snapchat’s main lane. “As we shared earlier this year, we're testing and scaling new subscriptions that provide deeper, … …
… The trend suggests that even while platforms face obstacles in foisting AI features onto users, the top brass is determined to exert greater influence within their business through a kind of AI-enabled omnipresence. …
… Executives have also urged some product teams to introduce generative AI features into Meta’s family of social media apps. “This is the part that’s triggered the real morale crusher,” a former employee says of the AI directives. “Zuckerberg was just obsessed that this is the transformation we have … …
… The plaintiffs say they’d sooner drop the suit than submit to harassment and doxing from Musk’s online supporters. xAI’s lawyers, however, claim that since the deepfakes will remain under seal, there’s “nothing inherently stigmatizing” about naming the people in them. …
… Though not yet enabled, NameTag sits inside a Meta AI companion app that's been downloaded over 50 million times and is necessary for use of key features of its smart glasses, including Ray-Ban and Oakley models. …
… Experts say that Meta's decision about Instagram chat could give other companies, or even simply other divisions within Meta, permission to do less, too. “Meta's deployment of encryption was a public commitment, and they were weathering a lot of pressure from various governments to do it,” says Joh… …
… While the FBI had previously paid for phone data from commercial data brokers—instead of seeking a warrant—it had stopped doing so, Wray said. “That’s not been active for some time,” Wray claimed. …