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Only 20% of German employees received AI training, with 70% never trained, risking EU AI Act violations. Bitkom warns firms must ensure AI skills for all workers, as AI boosts efficiency but needs proper use. 14% fear job loss to AI, 1/3 see AI replacing bosses.....

Google recently introduced a new strategy that allows the Gemini AI assistant to access third-party applications such as WhatsApp, raising privacy concerns. Even if users disable interaction permissions, Gemini can still access some application data, which will be reviewed by humans and retained for 72 hours. Although an option to disable it is provided, the instructions are unclear, making it difficult for users to confirm whether the permission has been successfully disabled. Experts have criticized this strategy as similar to Microsoft's forced bundling of IE, and suggest uninstalling Gemini via the command line, although the process is complex. This incident highlights the challenges faced by tech companies.

Google's Gemini CLI adds audio/video processing, Markdown support & privacy features. With 85 improvements by 51 contributors, it now supports VSCodium/Neovim, upgraded to Ink6/React19, offering free million-token access under Apache2.0 license.....

The newly launched AI search function in WeChat has attracted widespread attention due to allegations of leaking personal privacy. Recently, many users reported on social platforms that this function can generate a personal resume with a name hyperlink in one click, causing concerns about privacy security among users. According to user feedback, the controversy surrounding WeChat AI Search mainly focuses on its automatic identification mechanism. When users encounter names in WeChat official account articles, the system automatically converts the name into a blue hyperlink. Clicking this link will force the AI system to generate a detailed information page containing personal resume, as well as display all

Amazon's smart home security company Ring announced on Wednesday that it will introduce an innovative artificial intelligence feature into its doorbells and cameras. This new feature will provide users with specific text descriptions of the movement activities detected by their devices, significantly improving the clarity of real-time notifications. Now, when users receive real-time notifications about events around their homes, the updated information will be more detailed and intuitive. For example, the notification might read, 'A person is walking up the steps with a black dog,' or 'Two people are watching a white car parked in the driveway.'

In a recent episode of the podcast "Hard Fork," OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman voluntarily discussed the copyright lawsuit filed by The New York Times against OpenAI and its major investor, Microsoft. The lawsuit primarily accuses OpenAI of using The New York Times' content without authorization while training its large language models. Altman expressed concern about the lawsuit, particularly regarding a new request made by The New York Times' lawyers.

The independent AI application Meta AI launched by Meta has drawn extensive attention from users. However, this application has also revealed serious privacy issues. Many users unintentionally publicly share private conversations with chat bots, causing their sensitive information to be exposed in public view. The Meta AI application allows users to post conversation content to social platforms via a sharing button after interacting with the AI. But surprisingly, many users are unaware of this, and the content they post

With advancements in AI technology, OpenAI recently launched its latest inference models—o3 and o4-mini. These new models are not only more powerful in text understanding but also possess image reasoning capabilities, quickly becoming user favorites. According to TechCrunch, more users are leveraging ChatGPT to pinpoint the exact location where photos were taken, a phenomenon sparking widespread attention on social media. The o3 and o4-mini models offer powerful...

Meta Platforms, Inc. has announced plans to use user data from its European Union applications, including Facebook and Instagram, to train its artificial intelligence models. The company clarified that the training data will include users' public posts, comments, and interactions with Meta AI, but will exclude private messages with friends and family. Training will be limited to users aged 18 and over. Meta stated it will inform its EU users of this plan this week via in-app notifications and emails.

Meta recently announced it will resume training its AI models using publicly available content from European users. This decision follows a pause last year due to data privacy concerns. Meta stated that this AI training will primarily rely on publicly shared posts and comments from adult users across the 27 EU countries. Furthermore, interactions between users and Meta AI, such as questions and queries, will also be used to train and improve its AI models. Image attribution: Image generated by AI, image licensing provided by Midj

Tongfu Shield Happy Pig is a novel multi-agent system designed to address the challenges of privacy protection in various applications. Through collaborative efforts of multiple intelligent agents, it achieves robust privacy preservation without sacrificing functionality or efficiency.

Spain is considering legislation aimed at combating the proliferation of AI-generated pornography and safeguarding the privacy of minors.

OpenAI is facing a privacy complaint from Norway concerning its AI chatbot ChatGPT's tendency to generate false information. The case, supported by privacy advocacy group Noyb, was filed by Alf Harmar Holmen, who was shocked and angered to find ChatGPT falsely claimed he was convicted of murdering two children and attempting to kill a third. Previous privacy complaints against ChatGPT have largely involved...

A collaborative team from Ant Group, Zhejiang University, University of Liverpool, and East China Normal University presented ScaleOT, a novel cross-domain fine-tuning framework, at AAAI 2025. This framework achieves a 50% improvement in privacy protection and a remarkable 90% reduction in computational cost compared to knowledge distillation, without compromising model performance. ScaleOT offers a highly efficient and lightweight solution for cross-domain fine-tuning of billion-parameter models. The innovative nature of the paper secured it an oral presentation at AAAI.

Recently, WeChat's innovative initiatives in search functionality have garnered widespread attention. According to the latest news, WeChat Search has begun a gray testing phase with the integration of the DeepSeek R1 model, offering users a more intelligent AI search experience. Tencent representatives confirmed that WeChat Search is officially introducing the DeepSeek R1 model for testing, building on its enhanced AI search capabilities with mixed yuan large models. Users participating in the gray testing will be able to use the fully featured DeepSeek-R1 model for free, enjoying a more diverse search service.