As scrutiny of camera-equipped AI glasses intensifies, tighter privacy settings and clearer messaging will not be enough. Jason Low, research director at Omdia, said that on Tuesday. The research firm had just published its count of the AI glasses mark…
Smart glasses may look cool but there’s absolutely no place in our schools or classrooms for them. Sabine Winton said that on Tuesday. Western Australia’s education minister was announcing what she called the country’s most comprehensive ban on the dev…
Security can no longer stop at protecting the person behind the screen. It has to extend to the agent itself acting on their behalf. Ciprian Istrate said that on Tuesday. He runs consumer operations at Bitdefender, and the Romanian company was launchin…
In response to the ZCode product security issues reported by the community, we have completed the necessary remediation and sincerely apologize to all our users. Z.ai posted that on Monday, on ZCode’s official account. The Beijing company, formerly Zhi…
A Chinese developer who writes as Ferstar looked inside ZCode’s local directory on Friday and found a 313MB encrypted archive waiting to be sent to Alibaba’s cloud storage. It had failed 564 times. A smaller file had already gone. Minxiao Chang and Wen…
An OECD employer survey of 6,047 firms across six countries found that 67% of US firms use software to sanction poor performance, against 4% in the four European countries surveyed. American firms also monitor the content and tone of conversations at 5…
Meta’s Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that’s a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes. But for all its smarts, Muse doesn’t actually know how to describe itself. Jason Aten, a contributing editor at Inc Magazine, posted on Threads […]
Andrew Bosworth used an AMA on his personal Instagram to argue that the conversation about Meta’s glasses should not be shaped by a relatively small number of bad actors. Katie Notopoulos reported the exchange for Business Insider. Most people use the …
Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 was released on 18 September, priced at $0.10 per hour of audio for batch work and $0.20 per hour for streaming. Both figures are unchanged from the previous version. The announcement is published under SpaceXAI, the name xAI …
A federal judge in Los Angeles has tentatively refused to lift the consent decree imposed on Musical.ly, the app ByteDance bought and turned into TikTok. Vlad Savov and Josh Sisco reported the ruling for Bloomberg, which said Judge George H. Wu intends…