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Privacy and AI lawyer at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), where she is senior counsel and directs the AI and Human Rights Program.
Northeastern researchers found AI transcripts of police bodycam video named 3.3 speakers on average, against 4.8 in versions edited by people. Most of the words came through, and the authors say a person must still check who said what before a transcript is used in a criminal case.
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Meta's free Muse agent, downloaded millions of times, asks for total control of users' Gmail, calendar and, on Macs, the whole computer. The researcher whose foundation found serious flaws in the app would uninstall it, while warnings that agents will swamp sites built for people are still forecasts.
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President Trump's order makes America.gov, an answer-only chatbot today, the single online entry point for covered federal services, linked to Login.gov. Teams that run federal services now have to design how a user moves from an anonymous chat to a signed-in transaction.
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Sensor Tower counted more than 900,000 downloads of Meta's Muse in its first week. Wired's reviewer found an agent that browses competently while its ideas tab keeps pitching a live link to the bank.
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Micro1's late $12.5 million counter says the auction underpriced it. Either way, a liquidated airline's Teams archive now has a comparable, and every trustee's advisor has the number.
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