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.

A US-China AI Hotline Won't Be Ready for a While As the US and China race to become the dominant power in the AI industry, the countries also appear to be figuring out ways to communicate on national security issues. As US president Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping prepare to meet in Washington for a state dinner at the White House on Thursday, AI has become a top priority . Tech executives from OpenAI and Nvidia have confirmed their attendance at the dinner, as a number of key agenda items are on the table. Chief among them is a US proposal to establish an AI notification system with China, akin to the Cold War hotline with Moscow, which would allow each country to alert the other about national security issues related to AI. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent first announced the notification system on Sunday with Chinese vice premier He Lifeng. But for all the high-level progress, Trump administration officials tell they expect it to still take a number of weeks to finalize an agreement, even if they are optimistic that the hotline could be in place before the year's end.

The Pope's AI Guy Is Worried About'Cartel' Behavior Among Big Labs Paolo Benanti tells WIRED that hysteria over whether godlike AI could destroy humanity is distracting from the need for public debate about how to govern the technology. Recently, warnings from researchers inside the world's largest artificial intelligence labs about the rapid pace of development have led to panic about the possibility that the technology could extinguish humanity . Those warnings are predicated on the idea that--propelled by ferocious competition and a rivalry between the US and China--labs are barreling toward superintelligent models whose abilities will far surpass those of humans. But according to Father Paolo Benanti, a priest who advises the Catholic Church on AI, the handwaving over superintelligence distracts from the need for open debate about how to constrain the companies building the technology. By casting the problem as so complex that only they can solve it, he says, the big labs exclude everyone else from the conversation.

YouTube's Custom Feeds Give You More Control Over the Algorithm In YouTube's latest update, viewers can tweak what the algorithm shows on their front page and curate it to a specific vibe. My YouTube algorithm is sacred, with years of data about my preferences and viewing history fermenting into whatever videos it picks for my home screen. YouTube's algorithm, while not perfect, sure knows what I want to see. The current top three videos on my front page are an Apple Watch analysis, a season 28 update, and something called "I Lost to the Muppets" from comedian Chris Fleming . As part of its Made on YouTube event Wednesday, Google released several new features, including a Custom Feeds button for adjusting what videos pop up on your front page. It's a rare chance for users to directly tweak their algorithmic feed on YouTube, in ways that go beyond just pressing thumbs up on a video or blocking a creator.

Meta's Muse AI Assistant Rolled Out With a Serious Security Flaw Meta says it issued a fix for the Muse zero-day vulnerability that would have let attackers do "whatever" they wanted on a victim's Mac, highlighting the inherent dangers of AI helpers. Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone to great lengths to hype the security of its new AI assistant, Muse, claiming it is "built from the ground up for privacy and security." A zero-day vulnerability that gives locally run apps and terminal commands complete control of the agent raises serious doubts. Further raising questions, Amazon on Sunday began blocking Muse from its site. Meta introduced Muse a few weeks ago.

The technology could strap onto existing gas turbines and make them more efficient--but it wouldn't do away with their emissions entirely. A new company has a plan to make the dirty gas turbines powering data centers more efficient: liquid carbon dioxide. American Supercritical came out of stealth Wednesday, announcing $8 million in funding. It wants to retrofit inefficient gas turbines that many data centers rely on for power with units that can generate more power, without adding more emissions (though the gas-fired turbines will continue to emit carbon pollution). The technology can also theoretically be used on a wide variety of energy sources at a time when power demand is skyrocketing.

The app Paperman gives your screen some added texture in an effort to make it easier on your eyes. It works best for reading, writing, or otherwise working with text. Tech is so sterile now--everything lives on the same shiny screens. It's nice, then, when you find an application that exists mostly just to add a little grit to these devices. That's how I'm interpreting Paperman, which makes everything on your computer screen look like it's printed on paper.

I used AI and QR codes to inventory my junk drawer, keepsakes, and other easily forgotten belongings. Easy to use and genuinely helpful for specific cases. Companion app's search function works well. Only useful if you update the app whenever you move or add an item. Photo-scanning technology makes some errors.

Kate Tolo Says Her Quest to Be'the Female Bryan Johnson' Is'for Women' Like her biohacking boyfriend, Tolo is undergoing a grueling regimen of tests--from tracking nighttime erections to subjecting herself to extreme heat on her period--in service of "half the population." Kate Tolo got her first period at 13--an experience she says left her lying prostrate on the floor, debilitated by cramps and breaking out into a full-body sweat. When she told her dad why she was home from school early, she remembers him saying, "We don't talk about that female stuff ." For most of her teenage years, that was how Tolo thought about her period--as something "you just didn't talk about." When she was in her early twenties and experienced extreme pain while defecating, sending her to the emergency room, a doctor suggested Tolo may have endometriosis, a chronic disease believed to affect an estimated 10 percent of women of reproductive age, according to WHO data.

The telecom giant is eager to show Wall Street that it can do more with less. That means fewer employees, less electricity, and increased automation. AT&T, which already shed more than half of its workforce over the past decade, says it's going to continue laying off staff as it gears up for the AI era . The telecommunications giant is also doing away with its old-school landline service and using artificial intelligence to automate some internal processes. All this downsizing is resulting in tangible benefits, including a considerable decrease in electricity usage, AT&T chief technology officer Jeremy Legg tells WIRED.