At WWDC 2024, Apple introduced Apple Intelligence, a comprehensive initiative integrating generative AI across its ecosystem, including iOS, macOS, and visionOS. Built with user privacy and personalization at its core, Apple Intelligence focuses on understanding individual routines, relationships, and communications. It leverages large language models to process data locally on Apple silicon, with some tasks offloaded to Private Cloud Compute for enhanced privacy. The update significantly overhauls Siri, enabling text-based queries and deeper app integrations, and adds features like Smart Replies, customized emojis (Genmoji), and the Image Playground tool. Apple also announced a partnership with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT functionalities to Siri without requiring additional sign-ups or fees. The feature will be available on iPhone 15 Pro and M1 Mac and iPad devices later this year.

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Researchers highlight a looming challenge in the AI industry: the scarcity of human-written training data for machine learning models. Due to the exponential pace at which computing capabilities are growing—outstripping the availability of new textual data—AI tools from companies like OpenAI and Google risk a future where they can't improve their models effectively. This potential shortfall could force a shift towards using AI-generated data for training, which may degrade the quality of AI outputs. The debate continues about whether advancements in AI efficiency could mitigate this issue, preventing an "AI ouroboros" scenario where models recursively train on their own generated content.

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Microsoft’s new AI-enabled Recall feature, which captures and stores periodic screenshots of a user's computer desktop, has sparked significant cybersecurity concerns. For instance, security researchers revealed that hackers could access this historical data without needing administrator privileges, effectively bypassing the tool’s sole protection mechanism. The vulnerability highlighted by Google Project Zero's James Forshaw demonstrates that control lists can be easily manipulated, leading to unrestrained access to users' data. The discovery has led to Microsoft announcing changes, including disabling Recall by default and promising additional security measures following intense backlash from the cybersecurity community.

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Adobe's recent changes to its Terms of Use for AI integration have sparked controversy among professionals, particularly those who work under non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). Users must now agree to a new clause allowing Adobe to use, reproduce, and modify their content for software improvement and AI training, raising privacy concerns. Many professionals, such as designer Wetterschneider, who has clients like DC Comics and Nike, are calling for a boycott of Adobe products, arguing that this violates client confidentiality. This situation mirrors similar clarifications made by other companies like Slack and may lead users to prefer self-hosting files or using open-source alternatives to avoid such terms.

EVERY SOFTWARE COMPANY seems to be gradually updating its Terms for AI. publication