According to people familiar with the matter, AI surveillance camera and license plate recognition device maker Flock Safety plans to cut about 18% of its staff, about 270 people, with employees departing by the end of this month. The company previously launched a voluntary departure program in September, and currently has about 1,500 employees; Flock declined to comment. Flock has deployed about 120,000 AI cameras across 49 states, serving more than 4,800 law enforcement agencies and nearly 1,000 businesses, but faces increasing scrutiny from regulators, lawmakers, and privacy advocates.
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WIRED Security and AI, 404 Media · 7 sourcesWIRED Security and AI · 7 sources · 8 reports · Attention5858
Meta's personal assistant Muse has reached millions of downloads, and users have connected it to bank accounts, messages, and health data. Independent researcher Karan Joshi, through an ordinary chat interface, got Muse to copy and share its own software files, extracting a large number of instructions and system prompts, one of which requires Muse to create pages for every person in the user's life every hour, aggregating data on family, partners, friends, colleagues, etc. 404 Media reported that Meta discovered multiple security vulnerabilities weeks before Muse's release, at least one of which could allow ordinary users to break out of virtual machine isolation and access Meta's internal sensitive databases and services, so serious that it was escalated to Mark Zuckerberg, and multiple security teams urgently fixed them before release. Four early users interviewed by Business Insider have deleted or restricted their use of Instinct and Muse due to concerns about sensitive data and account access permissions. Meta responded that Muse has privacy and security protections, and users can choose which apps to connect and revoke or delete data at any time.
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Early users delete personal AI assistant over privacy concerns
Meta urgently fixes KVM escape vulnerability before Muse launch
Meta Muse internal instructions extracted, creating profiles for every contact
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OWIRED Security and AI, The Verge AI · 3 sourcesWIRED Security and AI · 3 sources · 7 reports · Attention2626
OpenAI released Dots, an always-on online AI agent, at DevDay 2026 in San Francisco. Powered by the GPT-6 Astra model, it continuously crawls the web, completes assigned tasks, pulls context from connected apps, and gradually learns user preferences. The feature is available to ChatGPT Pro subscribers at $100 per month and can be used via ChatGPT, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. Pro users can also join a waitlist to use it through iMessage or Android RC, with plans to bring it to the mass market in the future. Dots also offers "expert" versions for marketing, legal, and accounting. CEO Sam Altman said the company aims to "set a new standard for frontier AI privacy" and took a jab at Meta's rival Muse for failing to protect user data. Meta had previously marketed Muse as a safer alternative to its predecessor OpenClaw, but after launch, Meta itself could still access data from Muse. A security researcher had disclosed a zero-day vulnerability that could take over Muse (since fixed), and 404 Media also reported multiple serious security issues before launch.
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OpenAI releases dots proactive assistant
OpenAI DevDay 2026 releases more than 20 announcements
OpenAI has released Privacy Filter, an open-weight model for detecting and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) in text. OpenAI says it achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on this task.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health, combining users' health information with ChatGPT. Health conversations are stored separately and are not used to train foundation models. Users can connect medical records and health apps such as Apple Health. Medical record integration and some apps are limited to the U.S. OpenAI says more than 230 million people ask health questions on ChatGPT each week, and the product is not used for diagnosis or treatment.
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