At NYC’s AI hearing, ex-lab insiders warn humanity may lose control of AI
At NYC’s AI hearing, ex-lab insiders warn humanity may lose control of AI

Three former AI lab researchers told the New York City Council on Monday that humanity may lose control of the systems the industry is building. The council’s AI hearing also questioned policy staff from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta, and weighed …

Dutch eyewear chain Hans Anders stops selling Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses
Dutch eyewear chain Hans Anders stops selling Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses

Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear chains, has stopped selling Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium. The chain told Reuters on Friday that privacy concerns were behind the move. Dutch online retailer Wehkamp has also p…

Apple adds new Full Disk Access controls on Macs because of AI agents
Apple adds new Full Disk Access controls on Macs because of AI agents

Apple will add new controls to Full Disk Access on the Mac. Users will only be able to give an app that level of access “with very explicit user action”. The company announced the change on its developer news site on Friday and said AI agents were the …

Meta wants your next gadget to be Muse-infused

Meta wants Muse in your TV and your toaster, so it’s giving the code away for free.

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Meta open sources code to let you make Muse AI gadgets
Meta open sources code to let you make Muse AI gadgets

Meta now lets you make your own Muse gadgets that feature the company’s new AI agent with code that the company open sourced. The company suggests projects like loading Muse on a color E Ink display to show reminders, adding it to an HDMI stick so you can display Muse on a big screen, or […]

Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents

Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.

Meta’s Muse reportedly passes 3 million weekly users and 5m downloads
Meta’s Muse reportedly passes 3 million weekly users and 5m downloads

More than 3 million people prompt Meta’s Muse at least once a week, according to internal data reviewed by The Information. More than 1 million send the AI agent a prompt every day, Jyoti Mann reported. The weekly figure is part of a wider group. More …

Nvidia’s Huang questioned Amodei’s AI warnings at White House, WSJ reports
Nvidia’s Huang questioned Amodei’s AI warnings at White House, WSJ reports

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and other tech leaders questioned Anthropic’s Dario Amodei about his public warnings on AI at Tuesday’s White House lunch. People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal about the exchange. Amodei repli…

Yann LeCun calls Anthropic’s Dario Amodei ‘deluded’, Fortune reports
Yann LeCun calls Anthropic’s Dario Amodei ‘deluded’, Fortune reports

Yann LeCun does not worry “at all” about AI wiping out humanity, and he has “zero concerns” about the recent run of rogue AI incidents. The Turing Award winner said so in an interview with Emily Forlini for Fortune. He also called Anthropic chief execu…

California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people

The California state bill would have penalized people who secretly recorded people in public with wearables equipped with cameras and microphones.