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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.