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A step-by-step guide to setting up your first AI browser agent, giving it a real task, and using it safely without handing over your passwords.
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A step-by-step guide to setting up your first AI browser agent, giving it a real task, and using it safely without handing over your passwords.

Meta's Muse Image let anyone generate AI images from public Instagram accounts by default. SAG-AFTRA and CAA pushed back. The feature lasted 72 hours.

Google now requires advertisers to disclose AI-generated ad content across Search, YouTube, and Discover - three weeks before EU AI Act Article 50 enforcement begins.

China's new AI anthropomorphic interaction rules take effect July 15, forcing ByteDance and Alibaba to shut down persistent AI companion features and permanently delete user conversation data.

Erik Voorhees' privacy-first AI platform closes its first outside round at a $1B valuation, backed by crypto-native VCs Dragonfly and Coinbase Ventures.

The top AI synthetic data tools in 2026 ranked by price, quality, and use case - from open source SDV to Tonic.ai Fabricate and K2view.

Meta launched AI Mode on Facebook, turning billions of public posts into AI-synthesized search answers with no opt-out for the 2 billion daily users whose content powers it.

Meta's 6,500-person Applied AI team, created in March with a join-or-quit mandate, is in revolt: 1,600+ employees signed a petition against keystroke surveillance, bathroom-stall flyers appeared across US campuses, and UK workers began organizing with UTAW.

OpenAI's Dreaming V3 replaces ChatGPT's flat memory with a hierarchical relational system, kicking off a four-way race for AI personalization dominance.

DuckDuckGo's no-AI search page saw a threefold traffic spike after Google's I/O 2026 overhaul made AI-generated summaries mandatory with no opt-out.

Gemini Spark is Google's first 24/7 cloud-persistent AI agent - ambitious, genuinely novel, and still rough around the privacy edges.

The best AI coding assistants with local mode in 2026 - covering Continue.dev, Tabby, Cline, Cursor Ghost Mode, and Aider with real privacy models and self-hosting options.