Friend, the AI pendant that listens to users' days and offers commentary, has relaunched as Friend 2.0 with a speaker for spoken replies, priced at $249, double the original $129, according to The Ver…
OpenAI launched GPT-Live on July 8, a full-duplex voice model that lets ChatGPT listen and speak simultaneously, enabling more natural conversations. The model can delegate complex tasks to GPT-5.5 in…
Signal president Meredith Whittaker warned on June 20 that AI agents like Microsoft Copilot are surveillance infrastructure disguised as productivity tools, arguing that their access to personal data …
Signal president Meredith Whittaker warned in a Bloomberg interview that AI chatbots are not sentient and that agentic systems like Microsoft Copilot requiring access to messages, calendars, and credi…
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned in a Bloomberg interview that AI agents like Microsoft Copilot constitute surveillance backdoors, citing their need for pervasive access to credit cards, mes…
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned that AI chatbots are not friends or conscious beings, cautioning against treating them as sentient interlocutors. She expressed concerns about granting syste…
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not friends or conscious beings, cautioning against granting them pervasive access to personal data. She critici…