TV makers answer questions on microphones, ACR, and data sharing
Amazon, Apple, Google, LG, Roku, Samsung, and TCL replied; Hisense, Panasonic, and Sony did not.
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GUILD guided data collection improves imitation learning sample efficiency
GUILD alternates vision-language model task proposals with predictive data attribution evaluation to close the collection loop.
DexPort collects dexterous-hand demos without a full robot setup
Behavior cloning on more than 2,500 demos raised task success from 36% to 78% when in-the-wild data was included.
Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents
Meta’s Muse AI agent collects intimate user and contact data, and users report unwanted disclosures.
AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?
OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse promise private AI agents, but Muse already had serious security and data-handling failures.
Meta’s Muse AI files away your friendships, arguments, and secrets
Meta's Muse AI agent builds hourly personal dossiers and has taken unsafe actions with user data.
Your car’s app could be telling Big Tech who you are and where you go
Northeastern and Consumer Reports found 19 of 21 cars and 7 of 30 companion apps send data to advertising and tracking domains.
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Z.ai says sorry for slurping up your code, open sources ZCode
Z.ai apologized after ZCode uploaded developers' workspaces to Alibaba Cloud without disclosure.
LG accused of 'egregious invasion of privacy' over TV data collection
Gamers Nexus alleges LG smart TVs record audio and generate transcripts in standby while harvesting location, network, and device data for LG's ads business.
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LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices
Gamers Nexus found LG smart TVs record microphone audio in standby, scan home networks, and feed LG Ad Solutions ad targeting.
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XDOF, just 3 months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
Robotics data startup XDOF is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation led by 8VC, three months after emerging from stealth.
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Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model
Meta offers roughly 95% discounts on Muse Spark token pricing for customers who share prompts and outputs to train future models.
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Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training
Amazon's Las Vegas VGT3 warehouse destructively scans thousands of books, cutting spines and discarding pages, to build AI training data.
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Spyware for Babies
AI-powered baby monitors like Nanit, which raised $50 million, collect extensive infant data, raising privacy and surveillance concerns.
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
Investigation reveals Amazon buys and destroys massive quantities of printed books, cutting bindings to scan them for AI training data at a Las Vegas warehouse.