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AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?

At this year’s OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company’s new AI agent Dots – and told the crowd that the company wants to “set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI.” OpenAI would spend the day taking veiled shots at Meta’s Muse, its primary competitor, for failing to keep users’ data safe. […]

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micro1 commits $1bn to buy company data for training AI agents

AI training company micro1 will spend $1bn over the next 12 months buying and licensing operational data from companies. The San Francisco company announced the plan on Friday. Citi and Hercules Capital are providing the capital. The money goes through micro1’s Company Data Partnerships programme. The company uses de-identified company data to build reinforcement learning […]

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Spirit’s privacy ombudsman backs Google’s $10m data deal

The privacy official in Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy has recommended approval of the sale of deidentified Spirit Airlines data to Google. In a report filed on 5 October, ombudsman Lucy Thomson said Spirit and Google had taken passenger databases out of the deal. Google won the auction with a $10m bid, Business Insider reported. A hearing […]

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Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports

In August, Mark Zuckerberg met Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, and its head of AI product, Nat Friedman, Eli Tan reported for The New York Times on Friday. They discussed Instinct, a 14-person start-up whose AI agent was taking off. Zuckerberg told them Muse was ready to launch despite the risks, according to three […]

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ICO secures data protection changes from 10 AI developers, turns to agents

Ten of the biggest AI developers have made, or committed to make, changes to how they handle personal data. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) secured the changes after two years of scrutiny. The data regulator named them on Thursday: Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Cohere, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and Stability AI. The changes include […]

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One prompt let researchers take over every AWS AgentCore agent in a region

Researchers at Zenity Labs used a single prompt to one public-facing AI agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to take over every AgentCore agent in the same AWS account and region. The security firm published the research on Thursday, alongside a talk at the SecTor 2026 conference in Toronto. AgentCore is AWS’s managed service for building […]

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Amazon’s About You page goes viral for what it guesses about shoppers

Amazon’s “About You” page has become a social media hit, for the things it says about shoppers. One user on Threads found that Amazon had concluded she “has flat buttocks”, Business Insider reported on Tuesday. Her post set off a wave of others sharing their own profiles. About You lists the details Amazon has drawn […]

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We can’t just change the definition of ‘recording’

With AI hardware, tech companies are pushing the definition of what does and doesn’t constitute a recording. For most of gadget history, it’d be reasonable to assume that a device with a microphone or camera is either recording you or it isn’t; it’s either on or off, without much gray area. Microphones capture sound. Cameras […]

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Denmark’s CPR breach: 14 million lookups in ten days, found through a bill

Unknown users have pulled names, addresses and ID numbers on about 8.8 million people from Denmark’s Central Person Register (CPR). They abused a small Danish company’s legal access to the register. Denmark’s digitalisation ministry announced the breach on Monday. The CPR administration has cut off the company, and the police are investigating. Denmark has about […]

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