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All newsA Mac Flaw Lets Any App Redirect What You Dictate to Meta's Assistant
Security researcher Patrick Wardle disclosed a zero-day in Meta's Muse for Mac: an undocumented setting any local process can flip, sending dictated prompts to an attacker's server and exposing the account token.
NewsChatGPT Has an Ad Cookie Now, and It Follows You to Other Websites
An independent traffic analysis describes an OpenAI advertising pixel that sets a cookie tied to your signed-in ChatGPT account, so advertiser sites carrying the pixel can report your visits back to OpenAI.
NewsShopify Is Letting Meta's AI Assistant Buy Things for You
Shopify says Meta's Muse agent can now search its catalog and complete purchases through Shop Pay across Shopify stores by default, routed through the Universal Commerce Protocol it co-developed with Google.
NewsTencent Launches an Image Model on Alibaba's Big Day
Hy Image 3.5 Preview went live on Tuesday, timed to Alibaba's Apsara conference. Tencent says in-house designer trials put it level with ByteDance's Seedream 5.0 Pro, but published no hard numbers.
NewsAnthropic Has a Real Laboratory Now, With Pipettes and Everything
Anthropic's head of life sciences confirmed to Reuters that the company runs a Bay Area wet lab where Claude's biological hypotheses get tested physically. The company says it is not becoming a drug maker.
BlogTwo AI Rulebooks Arrived in August. Only One of Them Is Readable.
On 2 August the EU switched on enforcement of its AI rules, with numbered articles, named duties and a public complaints form. In the same week the US finished its own frontier model framework and decided not to publish it. The gap that matters is not strictness, it is whether you can read what applies to you.
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