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Anthropic has merged the memory systems of Claude chat and Claude Cowork, so context built up in one now carries over to the other. The feature is on by default for Free, Pro, and Max plans, with opt-out controls and separate handling for sensitive personal data.

OpenAI released a new ChatGPT plugin for Mac that connects to Apple's Messages app, letting the AI send texts, search and summarize conversations, and analyze communication patterns with specific contacts. The feature requires macOS permission grants to read message content.

OpenAI has released a plugin allowing ChatGPT to read and respond to Apple iMessages on Mac, currently limited to ChatGPT Work and Codex users. The feature requires users to grant Full Disk Access and contact permissions, and arrives amid an active lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI.

OpenAI has launched an Apple Messages plugin that lets ChatGPT read, sort, draft, and send texts on a user's behalf. The company says the plugin runs locally and does not index all messages, though it has not detailed exactly how that works.

OpenAI has added an Apple Messages plugin to ChatGPT for Mac, allowing the AI to read, search, and send iMessage, SMS, and RCS conversations. The feature is available across all plans but currently limited to Apple silicon Macs.

OpenAI is previewing Private Safety Processing to select customers, an automated system that monitors for misuse across multiple sessions without retaining any customer data. The move directly contrasts with Anthropic's July policy allowing 30-day data retention for 'covered models' like Fable.

OpenAI has launched Computer History, a macOS feature that records clicks, keystrokes, and app switches to build a searchable memory timeline for ChatGPT and Codex. It replaces the screenshot-based Chronicle preview and requires opt-in consent from both admins and individual users.

OpenAI has replaced ChatGPT for Mac's Chronicle research preview with Computer History, an opt-in feature that builds a searchable activity timeline using macOS accessibility events instead of screenshots. The feature is available to ChatGPT Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, excluding the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK.

Apple has confirmed that its new Siri AI features in China will be powered by Alibaba's Qwen models rather than Google Gemini, which handles Siri AI elsewhere. A published guide indicates users will need separate Qwen accounts, suggesting the privacy protections built into Apple's Private Cloud Compute won't apply.

Thousands of shared Claude conversations were indexed by search engines after Anthropic's sharing feature omitted a noindex tag. Some exposed chats reportedly contained crypto keys and legal queries; Anthropic has since fixed the issue on Google, though Bing and Brave Search retained results longer.

Meta released its Muse Image model with a feature that allows users to tag any adult's public Instagram account and generate AI images using that person's likeness. Instagram account holders are not notified and must manually opt out, prompting backlash from privacy advocates, talent agency CAA, and actors union SAG-AFTRA.

Meta launched its Muse Image AI generator for Instagram, automatically opting in all public accounts to allow others to tag and remix their photos without notification. The feature, which lets anyone generate AI images based on a user's likeness by tagging their account, can be disabled through Instagram's Sharing and reuse settings.

Meta launched Muse Image, an AI image generator integrated into Instagram that uses public profile photos and posts as prompts by default. Users can only disable this by manually switching off two toggles buried in the app's privacy settings.

Proton has released Lumo 2.0, adding image recognition and generation, encrypted memory features, and enhanced web search to its privacy-focused AI assistant. The company claims Lumo 2.0 Max scored 240% higher than version 1.4 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, while maintaining zero-access encryption and no conversation logging.

Apple unveiled Siri AI at WWDC 2026, a rebuilt version of its assistant powered by Apple Intelligence and enhanced with Google Gemini. The company confirmed daily usage limits for features like image generation, with increased access requiring iCloud+ subscriptions. Siri AI won't launch in China and faces EU restrictions.

OpenAI has deployed Dreaming V3, a background memory synthesis system that builds comprehensive user profiles from chat history. The company reports factual task recall jumped from 41% in 2024 to 82% in 2026, while reducing compute costs by 5X. However, testing reveals the system stores outdated and incorrect information that persists even when users disable memory features.

LM Studio has released LM Link, a feature connecting its Mac app with the Locally AI iOS app to let users access local LLMs running on their Macs from their iPhones. The connection uses end-to-end encryption via Tailscale mesh VPNs and will be free during the preview period.

Perplexity announced that its Computer agentic system will gain hybrid inference in July 2026, automatically splitting tasks between local models for sensitive data and cloud-based frontier models for complex operations. The feature aims to balance privacy with computational power without requiring manual model selection.

Google's Gemini Spark, an AI agent rolling out to the company's $99/month AI Ultra plan, demonstrates advanced capabilities by mining users' Gmail, calendar, photos, and location data to create detailed trip itineraries. The agent can perform actions across apps and operate computers, though third-party services like Airbnb currently block its booking attempts.

Anthropic has added two enterprise security features to Claude Managed Agents: MCP tunnels, which route agent services through private networks without public internet exposure, and self-hosted sandboxes, which keep sensitive tool execution within customer infrastructure while Anthropic handles orchestration.

Meta is rolling out Incognito Chat, an end-to-end encrypted AI chat mode that stores no conversation logs on servers. According to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, messages are deleted when users leave their session, contrasting with Google's 72-hour and OpenAI's 30-day retention periods for temporary chats.

Meta is rolling out Incognito Chat with Meta AI on WhatsApp, offering end-to-end encrypted conversations with its AI assistant that the company cannot read. The feature uses Meta's Private Processing technology to handle messages in a secure environment where they are not saved or used for model training.

Google is testing Remy, an AI personal agent for Gemini that can take actions on users' behalf across Google services, according to Business Insider. The tool is currently in employee-only testing with no confirmed public release date.

OpenAI has released Advanced Account Security, an opt-in feature for ChatGPT users that requires passkey or physical security key authentication, automatically disables AI training on conversations, and implements shorter login sessions. The company partnered with Yubico to offer two YubiKeys for $68, nearly half the usual $126 price.

An APK teardown of Google app 17.18 beta reveals Google is preparing a "Proactive Assistance" feature for the Gemini app that will provide personalized suggestions using data from apps like Gmail and Calendar. According to strings in the code, all data processing will occur on-device in an encrypted space.

Alibaba Cloud released Qwen 3.6 27B, a 27-billion parameter language model, alongside an FP8 quantized version for deployment efficiency. Separately, OpenAI published a privacy filter model on Hugging Face, marking a rare public model release from the company.

OpenAI has introduced Chronicle, an opt-in research preview for macOS that captures user screens to provide contextual information to its Codex agent. The feature, which echoes Microsoft's controversial Recall, stores screenshots for six hours and sends data to OpenAI servers to generate persistent text-based memories.

OpenAI has released Privacy Filter, a 1.5B-parameter bidirectional token classification model designed for detecting and masking personally identifiable information in text. The model processes 128,000-token sequences in a single pass and is available under Apache 2.0 license for on-premises deployment.

Google has integrated its Nano Banana image generation system with Gemini's Personal Intelligence feature, enabling the AI to create images informed by user data from Gmail, Photos, Calendar, Drive, and other Google apps. The feature rolls out to Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers in the US first, with Europe excluded from the initial launch.

Google's Gemini can now generate personalized images by pulling data from users' Google Photos libraries through its Personal Intelligence feature. The integration uses Google Photos labels to identify people and objects, then generates images via the Nano Banana 2 model that reflect users' tastes and lifestyle.

Google released Gemma 4, an open-source multimodal model that runs entirely on smartphones without sending data to the cloud. The E2B and E4B variants require just 6GB and 8GB of RAM respectively and can autonomously use tools like Wikipedia, maps, and QR code generators through built-in agent skills. The model is available free via the Google AI Edge Gallery app for Android and iOS.

Google is testing a UI redesign for its Gemini app that moves the Temporary chat feature from a navigation drawer icon to a prominent button on the homepage. The change aims to make privacy-focused conversations more discoverable while maintaining Temporary chats' core privacy guarantee: conversations aren't stored in history, used for model training, or personalization.

Google has expanded Personal Intelligence, its hyper-personalized Gemini mode, from $20/month subscribers to all users. The feature integrates data from Gmail, Search history, Google Photos, and other Google services to provide contextual assistance, though it remains entirely opt-in.

DuckDuckGo's Duck.ai chatbot platform now includes OpenAI's GPT-5 mini for free users and GPT-5.2 for subscribers, both with reasoning capabilities. The platform continues to anonymize all conversations by default, stripping metadata before routing chats to model providers including Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, and OpenAI.

Apple has asked Google to set up servers specifically for hosting a new Gemini-powered version of Siri that meets Apple's privacy requirements, according to The Information. This represents a deeper infrastructure partnership beyond the January announcement that Google's Gemini models would power upgraded Siri features.

Researchers from ETH Zurich and Anthropic have demonstrated that pseudonymous internet users can be de-anonymized using commercially available AI models at a cost of just a few dollars per person. The attack works in minutes and calls fundamental assumptions about online anonymity into question.