Meta AI removes hidden face-recognition, OpenAI files for IPO

Meta AI removed a hidden face-recognition system from its smart glasses app, and OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, took a big step towards going public.

ChatGPT

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OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT, has confidentially filed paperwork to become a publicly traded company.

OpenAI Confidentially Files for IPO on the Heels of SpaceX and Anthropic

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Meta AI

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Meta has removed a hidden face-recognition system from the app that works with its smart glasses.

One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it, according to a WIRED analysis of the latest version’s code. The most recent version of Meta AI, a companion app for its line of smart glasses, strips out the unactivated software components that powered the system Meta internally called Nam…

The most recent version of Meta AI, a companion app for its line of smart glasses , strips out the unactivated software components that powered the system Meta internally called NameTag.

This change happened after a report revealed the system was quietly included in the app.

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Apple’s drastic overhaul of Siri , announced Monday at WWDC 2026 , attempts to make the smartphone voice assistant more helpful, attuned to iPhone users’ personal data, and action-oriented.

After extended delays, Apple is moving forward with a dynamic repositioning of Siri that changes how the voice assistant appears on iPhones and gives people a new way to access… After extended delays, Apple is moving forward with a dynamic repositioning of Siri that changes how the voice assistant appears on iPhones and gives people a new way to access it: a stand-alone Siri app.

Other voice assistants like Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT were able to eclipse Apple’s efforts in a…

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