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(Futurism) - Code uncovered by journalists revealed that Meta quietly embedded facial recognition tech into its AI-enabled smart glasses — and top Meta executives are fuming.

Last week, Wired reported that Meta discreetly moved to infuse facial recognition tech into its popular smart glasses, as evidenced by a piece of code discovered in the Meta AI app by the magazine’s journalists. The unreleased feature, internally dubbed “NameTag,” would “transform faces captured by Meta’s glasses into unique biometric signatures, commonly known as faceprints, and check each one against faceprints stored on the user’s phone — a database that’s currently configured to receive updates from Meta,” as Wired put it.

Electronic Frontier Foundation Threat Lab technologist Cooper Quintin, who reviewed the latent NameTag code, told Wired, “Despite the billions of reasons not to, Meta seems to have created the capacity to turn their customers into a distributed surveillance machine.” Read more

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In a significant medical breakthrough, an AI-designed vaccine component has begun human trials. This "super-antigen" aims to train the immune system against entire virus families, with future versions targeting flu and Ebola, marking a new era for AI in pharmaceutical development.

Sources: TAAFT - There's An AI For That

Anthropic's Claude language model is reportedly contributing to the development of future iterations of Claude. This represents a notable step towards AI systems demonstrating self-improvement capabilities and potentially accelerating future AI advancements.

Sources: AI Valley

Google Labs has launched "Dreambeans," a new AI application for iOS and Android. The app leverages a user's Google data, including calendar information, to generate personalized daily ideas and insights, offering a unique, contextualized AI experience.

Sources: Mindstream

ChatGPT has rolled out new features allowing users to review and manage everything the AI remembers from past conversations. This update aims to provide greater transparency and control over the chatbot's persistent memory, improving personalized interactions.

Sources: AI Valley

Reports indicate that Meta has included hidden face recognition capabilities within its AI application. This development raises potential privacy concerns for users of Meta's AI offerings, prompting scrutiny over data collection practices.

Sources: TAAFT - There's An AI For That

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