AI Assistants That Don't Train on Your Conversations
Which AI assistants train on your chats by default, which keep data only briefly, and where the real opt-out toggle actually lives.
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Inside OpenAI's Project Lily: Who Reads Your ChatGPT Prompts?
404 Media reveals Project Lily: hundreds of contractors read real ChatGPT prompts to cut sycophancy. OpenAI admits sensitive details slip past scrubbing.
Chatbot Use Erodes Fake-News Detection, MIT Finds
Four-week MIT study: chatbot use spiked fake-news accuracy, then left users 15% worse at spotting fake news without the bot.
COPPA Enforcement Starts Today, Google Reads Your Email, and Your AI Opt-Out Settings Probably Aren't Working
The biggest children's privacy update in 12 years takes effect, Google faces a class action over Gemini scanning Gmail, and we audit every major AI platform's opt-out settings.
ChatGPT Now Collects 70% More Data, Claude Wants Your Passport, and GitHub Trains on Your Code
Surfshark's 2026 report reveals ChatGPT's data appetite has exploded, Anthropic rolls out government ID checks, and GitHub's Copilot starts training on your code April 24.
Deep Research Showdown: Perplexity vs ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini vs Grok
Five AI tools promise to do your research for you. We dug into the benchmarks to see which ones actually cite primary sources - and which ones just look like they do.
The Hallucination Showdown: ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini — Who Makes Up the Least Stuff?
We compared the latest hallucination benchmarks across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. The results are closer than you'd think — and the gaps that matter aren't where you'd expect.
ChatGPT Just Landed on Your Car Dashboard. Here's What That Means for Your Privacy.
OpenAI's ChatGPT is the first AI chatbot on Apple CarPlay. The convenience is real—but so are the questions about voice data, distraction, and what happens to your conversations.
9 CVEs in 4 Days: OpenClaw's Security Crisis Deepens
OpenClaw went from one CVE to nine in four days, with 12% of its marketplace confirmed malicious. Plus: ChatGPT's patched DNS exfiltration flaw.
Google Fires Back in AI Chatbot Portability War With Memory Import Tool
Gemini now lets you import chat history and preferences from ChatGPT and Claude. Here's what it means for switching costs and your data.
AI Writing Assistants Head-to-Head: ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini for Real Writing Tasks
We tested GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on actual writing tasks. Here's what each model does best and which one you should use.
Insurance Company Sues OpenAI After ChatGPT Convinced Woman to Fire Her Lawyer
Nippon Life claims ChatGPT engaged in unauthorized legal practice by generating 30+ court filings for a disability benefits claimant. The case could reshape how AI companies handle advice-giving chatbots.
The Great ChatGPT Exodus: Why Privacy-Conscious Users Are Fleeing to Claude
A 295% surge in ChatGPT uninstalls after OpenAI's Pentagon deal reveals how AI users are voting with their feet on privacy and ethics.
The AI Business Model Split: Why Your Chatbot Wants to Sell You Things
OpenAI launched ChatGPT ads this month. Perplexity abandoned them. Anthropic ran a Super Bowl campaign mocking the whole concept. The business model divergence reveals deeper questions about what AI assistants are actually for.
IBM X-Force 2026: AI-Driven Attacks Surge 44%, 300,000 ChatGPT Credentials Stolen
IBM's annual threat intelligence report reveals attackers are using AI to accelerate vulnerability discovery while infostealer malware harvests hundreds of thousands of AI chatbot credentials from the dark web.
Most AI-Generated Passwords Fail Basic Strength Tests
Kaspersky finds DeepSeek, Llama, and ChatGPT all produce password outputs that fail standard strength tests. Prediction capability makes LLMs bad at randomness.
AI Models Accept Medical Misinformation 32% of the Time
Mount Sinai researchers tested 20 LLMs with over a million prompts and found they readily accept false medical claims embedded in clinical-looking documents.
That 'Summarize with AI' Button Is Brainwashing Your Chatbot
Microsoft found 31 companies embedding hidden instructions in AI share buttons. One click poisons your assistant's memory without your knowledge.
AI Privacy Audit: What Eight Popular Assistants Collect
A source-by-source audit of eight AI assistants, what they collect, how training defaults differ, and which privacy settings users can change.
77% of Employees Are Pasting Company Data Into AI Tools - And Your Security Team Can't See It
The LayerX Enterprise AI Security Report reveals that AI has become the #1 data exfiltration channel in the enterprise. 82% of those leaking data use personal accounts. Traditional DLP can't stop copy-paste.
OpenAI Built a Bunker for ChatGPT Because It Can't Fix the Walls
ChatGPT's new Lockdown Mode protects against prompt injection data theft - but OpenAI admits the underlying vulnerability may never be solved. Here's what that means for agentic AI.
ChatGPT Now Has Ads. Here's What That Actually Means for Your Privacy
OpenAI started showing ads in ChatGPT conversations on February 9. Ad personalization is on by default, targeting uses your conversation topics, and opting out may cost you message limits. The era of ad-funded AI is here.
The Super Bowl Became an AI Battleground. The Real Fight Is Over Your Data.
AI companies spent millions on Super Bowl LX ads. Anthropic mocked OpenAI's plan to put ads in ChatGPT. A crypto CEO launched an 'AGI' platform. And Svedka aired the first AI-generated commercial. What it all means for users.