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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.

Recently, the Italian data protection authority announced a €15 million fine on OpenAI's AI chatbot ChatGPT. This decision was made following an investigation launched in March 2023, which found that OpenAI violated privacy protection regulations in multiple areas. Image source note: the image is generated by AI, image authorized by service provider Midjourney. The investigation indicated that OpenAI made significant errors in handling personal data. Firstly, the company failed to promptly report data breach incidents.

The Italian Data Protection Authority (GPDP) recently issued a warning to local media group GEDI, indicating that its collaboration agreement with OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, may violate EU privacy protection laws. According to this agreement, GEDI plans to provide its Italian language news content to ChatGPT subscribers, while OpenAI may use GEDI's news archives to enhance the accuracy of its products. The GPDP stressed that GEDI's digital archive contains a significant amount of personal information, including numerous details and even sensitive data.

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Firefox, Mozilla CEO Laura Chambers expressed in an interview with TechCrunch that significant impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on how people use web browsers are expected in the next two to three years. She reiterated Mozilla's strategic focus on the browser as its core product and stated that the company has increased its investment in the development of Firefox. Chambers believes that as the EU...

Apple plans to release the iOS 18.2 system update in the first week of December, specifically during the week of December 2, aimed at allowing users to quickly experience more artificial intelligence features. According to Mark Gurman, this update will integrate ChatGPT technology into Apple's voice assistant, Siri, allowing users to access ChatGPT's text and image generation capabilities for free without needing to create an account. Siri will use the expertise of ChatGPT to answer questions and will seek user consent before making inquiries.

The social networking platform X (formerly Twitter) updated its privacy policy on Wednesday, sparking widespread attention and discussion. The new policy indicates that X will, by default, allow third-party "partners" to use platform data to train AI models unless users actively choose to opt out. This move not only highlights X's efforts to seek new revenue sources but also raises concerns regarding user data privacy protection. Key changes in the new policy include: Third-party data usage: New terms allow third-party partners to use X user data, including for AI model training. Users have the option to choose.

Social network X (formerly Twitter) updated its privacy policy on Wednesday, indicating that it will allow third-party 'partners' to use X data to train their AI models unless users opt out. This change may position X similarly to other social media platforms and media organizations that consider licensing data to AI companies as a potential new revenue source. In the updated privacy policy, X added a paragraph detailing how X user data will be used and how users can opt out.

Apple is set to launch its first AI feature - Apple Intelligence, for iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices. However, with the advancement of AI technology, privacy concerns have become increasingly important. So, how does Apple Intelligence protect user privacy? Apple's privacy protection strategy prioritizes on-device processing, followed by private cloud computing. This approach has two main advantages: first, on-device processing is faster.

Meta has recently confirmed that photos and videos taken by users using Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses may be used to train its AI models. This practice has raised concerns as users may not be aware that they are providing Meta with a substantial amount of images for training its AI models, which could include their home interiors, family members, or personal documents. Emil Vazquez, Meta's policy communications manager, stated that in regions where multimodal AI is available, ...