Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse AI shopping agent from Amazon.com, alleging it accessed customer account pages and order histories without permission or identifying itself, exposing sensitive data and transactions to an undisclosed third party.
Mozilla launches the Firefox Smart Window beta with Mistral AI models in France and North America, offering tab-based answer sourcing and past-search retrieval while defaulting to no server-side conversation storage.
Meta faces a federal class-action lawsuit alleging it used children’s Facebook and Instagram photos without consent to train its unreleased NameTag facial-recognition system and generative AI models.
Apple unveils the iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone, using its larger display to support AI agents and multitasking while also previewing iPhone 18 Pro camera upgrades, the A20 Pro chip and on-device AI models.
Meta says it fixes Meta AI prompts after the tool identifies Utah mother Kalie Robins’ daughters and compiles their ages, birth weight, likely grade level, favorite places and other details from years of Facebook and Instagram posts.
Parents and children sue Meta in Illinois and California, alleging it harvested Facebook and Instagram photos without consent to train Emu and Muse Image AI models and develop the unshipped NameTag face-recognition system, potentially exposing millions to claims worth up to $5,000 per intentional Illinois biometric-privacy violation.
Apple says its upcoming Live Rewind feature captures the previous 15 seconds after a Digital Crown double-press, then uses the S11 chip’s Secure Enclave to process and immediately delete the audio, while Siri Recap offers toggleable high-level conversation summaries without transcripts, speaker labels, or timestamps.
The American Federation of Teachers and Microsoft strike a landmark AI privacy deal establishing 10 legally enforceable protections for students and teachers, banning data use for AI training and student tracking, with the agreement set to expand to all U.S. school districts by November 1 as the AFT pushes OpenAI …
Apple embeds AI across its entire product lineup, unveiling the S11 and A20 Pro chips alongside privacy-focused Audio Intelligence features like Siri Recap and Live Rewind, which deliver conversation summaries and on-demand transcripts without recording audio.
Meta launches Muse, a powerful personal AI agent that browses the web, sends emails, and makes purchases on users' behalf, running on a secure cloud-based virtual machine with built-in privacy monitoring and now rolling out free across iOS, Android, and muse.ai in the US.