The company is bringing its Private Processing encryption service to its much-maligned smart glasses. Meta knows you probably have some privacy concerns about its smart glasses . At its annual Meta Connect event today in Menlo Park, California, the company announced plans to incorporate its siloed AI processing scheme known as Private Processing into its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The feature, designed for WhatsApp last year, allows the glasses' AI assistant to get to know you and fulfill your requests without Meta accessing any of your data. "Most of the time, glasses are helping you see well, protecting your eyes and complementing your look, and that's it," Meta wrote in its press release, perhaps somewhat underselling the monumental historic significance of vision-correcting lenses as a technology.

Meta's Muse AI agent can do a lot. If you're willing to trust it with the most sensitive parts of your digital life, it can use the web, book travel, make phone calls, send emails and even make purchases on your behalf. So far, you can use Muse in its standalone iOS, Android or Mac apps, or within your WhatsApp chats. But in "the coming months," Meta is bringing its errand-running agent to its AI glasses. Meta shared more details about Muse for AI glasses at its Connect 2026 event on Wednesday. The company said Muse will help you "stay on top of things, take tasks and projects off your plate and turn long-term goals into action plans, all hands-free."

OpenAI agent'infiltrated' Australian government website, PM says An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI infiltrated an Australian government website in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said. The agent gained unauthorised accessed to a statistics portal containing non-sensitive Medicare information, Albanese told a news conference at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Medicare refers to Australia's universal healthcare scheme. The breach is among the first publicly reported AI-led hacks of a government website in the world. OpenAI said it only became aware of the incident in August during an ongoing review of OpenAI misaligned model activity, and informed Australian officials on 10 September.

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The French book scene is in uproar after a Canadian-Haitian author billed as a sensation was accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) to write his first novel. Thélyson Orélien, 38, has just been awarded the Prix du Roman Fnac - the first of the literary season's prizes - for C'était ça ou mourir (It was either that or die). He is also a finalist for the most prestigious annual French language awards, the Goncourt and the Renaudot, set to be issued soon. But on Tuesday a little-known group called Balance ton Claude (Denounce your Claude, in reference to Anthropic's AI assistant) claimed the book was almost totally written by AI - a charge the author denied. We tested several passages, from different bits of the manuscript, to come up with the identical result: 100 percent AI, the group said on X.

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