Governor Newsom signed EO N-5-26 on March 30, requiring AI vendors seeking California state contracts to certify safeguards on privacy, bias, and civil liberties - directly countering the Trump administration's push to strip state AI authority.
Starting April 24, GitHub will use Copilot Free and Pro users' interaction data to train AI models by default - with opt-out buried in settings.
A plain-English guide to how ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini remember you - what gets stored, how to manage it, and what to keep private.
Niantic trained a visual positioning AI on 30 billion images collected from Pokemon Go players over eight years. The data now guides delivery robots with centimeter-level accuracy.
A Swedish investigation reveals Meta routes sensitive Ray-Ban smart glasses footage to data annotators in Kenya who see users undressing, having sex, and flashing bank cards - with broken anonymization and no real opt-out.
Researchers from ETH Zurich and Anthropic show that LLM agents can strip pseudonymity from forum posts at scale for as little as $1.41 per target - matching what human investigators could do in hours.
