The FTC fined three companies for falsely advertising an AI 'active listening' service that was actually just reselling email lists. This case confirms that the 'phone spying for ads' conspiracy is often a marketing scam, not real technology.
OncoAgent proposes a dual-tier multi-agent framework that provides reliable and secure AI assistance for oncology clinical decisions through localized deployment, tiered models, and strict privacy protection.
Simon Willison adapted LlamaIndex's LiteParse into a pure browser-based version, enabling local PDF text extraction and OCR without a server, highlighting privacy and the importance of spatial text parsing.
Meta is strengthening end-to-end encrypted backups for WhatsApp and Messenger using hardware security modules (HSMs) and transparent deployment, making backups inaccessible even to Meta itself, with independent third-party audits.