At DevDay, Sam Altman presented OpenAI’s new Dots agent and said the company wants to set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI, while criticizing Meta’s Muse over data protection. The Verge asks whether agent makers will keep such promises.
Startup Instinct launched its AI agent in August with an invite-only approach and almost no marketing, and it quickly drew praise for its text-message interface. The Verge asks whether it can withstand competition from Muse.
Apple has changed how full-disk access permissions work on its systems to limit misuse by AI agents. Meta argues the permission should not be enough to let its Muse agent read messages, while Apple disagrees.