Privacy

Meta launched Muse Image on Tuesday, an AI image generator that allows users to create images using photos from any public Instagram account without notification. Users can opt out through privacy settings by disabling "Allow people to create with and reuse your content" for posts and reels.

Apple announced at WWDC 2026 that the rebuilt Siri runs on a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter model based on Google's Gemini technology, hosted on Google Cloud servers powered by Nvidia Blackwell B200 GPUs. The company unveiled a three-tier privacy architecture and five new Apple Foundation Models to handle queries across device, private cloud, and Google Cloud infrastructure.

Apple announced significant updates to Image Playground at WWDC 2026, adding natural language editing capabilities and multi-subject generation from Photos library. The updates address previous quality concerns, though hands-on testing has not yet been conducted.

OpenAI's Codex desktop app for Mac has added Chronicle, a feature that periodically captures screenshots, sends them to OpenAI's servers for OCR and visual analysis, then stores text summaries as unencrypted Markdown files locally. The feature requires a $100+/month ChatGPT Pro subscription and is unavailable in the EU, UK, and Switzerland.

Google is rolling out Personal Intelligence to Gemini users globally, excluding the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and UK. The opt-in feature accesses data from Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Google Photos, YouTube, Maps, and other first-party apps to provide contextual responses without additional prompting.