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Character.ai's parent filed Chapter 11 on Oct. 12 and expects a court-supervised sale to close in late November or early December. Exports take three to four weeks, so a user who files a request now has little slack before the sale closes.
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Meta lets its Muse assistant write explicit sexual chat for adults who ask, a spokesperson told WIRED. Mashable reported over five million downloads of an app whose explicit language Meta bans for Instagram and Facebook users.
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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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The Spirit Airlines bankruptcy auction put a price on a defunct company's internal records. The union's objection shows the scrubbing standard was written for customers, not staff.
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Supreme Court lets states screen voters against DHS's SAVE database, over three dissents and lower-court findings that its data is inaccurate. Each state decides whether to use it, so eligible voters' exposure depends on which states opt in before the midterms.
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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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