Pokemon Go Built a 30 Billion Image AI Dataset
Niantic trained a visual positioning AI on 30 billion images collected from Pokemon Go players over eight years. The data now guides delivery robots with centimeter-level accuracy.
Articles Tagged "Privacy"
Meta's AI Glasses Send Intimate Footage to Workers in Kenya
A Swedish investigation reveals Meta routes sensitive Ray-Ban smart glasses footage to data annotators in Kenya who see users undressing, having sex, and flashing bank cards - with broken anonymization and no real opt-out.
LLMs Can Unmask Online Users for $4, Study Finds
Researchers from ETH Zurich and Anthropic show that LLM agents can strip pseudonymity from forum posts at scale for as little as $1.41 per target - matching what human investigators could do in hours.
Mac Studio Clusters Now Run Trillion-Parameter Models for $40K
macOS RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 has turned four Mac Studios into a 1.5TB unified memory cluster that runs Kimi K2 at 25 tokens per second - a setup that would cost $780K with NVIDIA H100s.
Claude Now Lets You Import Memories From Any AI Provider
Anthropic's claude.com/import-memory page walks users through a two-step process to transfer ChatGPT, Gemini, or any chatbot's stored memories into Claude - no data loss, no starting over.
One Company, Two AI Apps, 300 Million Leaked Messages and 2 Million Exposed Photos
Turkish AI company Codeway left Firebase and Google Cloud Storage wide open, exposing 300 million chat messages from 25 million users and 8.27 million photos and videos across two apps. Over 12 TB of user data leaked.
OpenAI Flagged a Mass Shooter's ChatGPT Conversations Eight Months Before the Attack - And Chose Not to Warn Police
OpenAI's automated systems flagged violent gun scenarios in a ChatGPT user's conversations in June 2025. Employees urged leadership to alert Canadian police. Leadership refused. Eight months later, the user killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, BC.
300 Million Private AI Chat Messages Leaked by a Single Misconfigured Database
Chat & Ask AI, a popular chatbot wrapper app with 50 million users, left its Firebase database wide open - exposing 300 million messages including suicide discussions, drug recipes, and medical conversations to anyone who knew where to look.
Security Researchers Find Exposed Source Code on Persona's Government Verification Platform
Researchers claim to have extracted 53MB of TypeScript source maps from Persona's FedRAMP-authorized government endpoint, revealing the inner workings of the identity verification platform used by OpenAI and federal agencies.
Best Tools for Running LLMs Locally in 2026
Compare the best tools for running large language models locally: Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, GPT4All, and LocalAI. Includes hardware requirements and model recommendations.
