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Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them

Yoav Regev Says Small LMs Deliver High Accuracy Without Large InfrastructureSentra co-founder and CEO Yoav Regev says advances in small language models enable organizations to classify unstructured data with high accuracy inside customer environments, improving privacy, reducing infrastructure costs and strengthening AI-driven data governance.

The bill empowers the FTC to create a registry for sellers of AI agent software certifying their privacy and cybersecurity protections. The post Warner bill would create federally vetted list for secure, trustworthy AI agents appeared first on CyberScoop.

Program Focuses on AI Governance, Safety, Privacy, Bias and TransparencyAccreditation organization Joint Commission is rolling out a voluntary program for certifying the "responsible" deployment and use of artificial intelligence technologies by U.S. healthcare provider organizations, including governance, safeguards, monitoring processes and education.

Laure Lydon of Flo Health on Securing AI Without Compromising TrustTrust in femtech isn't a feature. It's the foundation. Laure Lydon, vice president of security at Flo Health, makes the case for embedding privacy and security into AI development from day one, not as an afterthought. Firms must evaluate potential risks before systems are built, she said.

Healthcare Sector AI Expansion Raises Questions on Governance, Privacy and SafetyMayo Clinic and Microsoft are planning a new healthcare-specific frontier artificial intelligence model that aims to help clinicians make earlier diagnoses and deliver more personalized treatments to their patients. The clinic plans to make the new model available to patients and doctors.

Healthcare Coordinating Council Highlights AI Risks, Potential Medical MishapsHealthcare organizations face an array of difficult cybersecurity, privacy, patient safety, supply chain and operational resiliency issues as they roll out artificial intelligence tools. A new Health Sector Coordinating Council playbook aims to help by providing a voluntary governance framework.

A malicious Hugging Face repository managed to take a spot in the platform's trending list by impersonating OpenAI's Privacy Filter open-weight model to deliver a Rust-based information stealer to Windows users

A malicious Hugging Face repository that reached the platform's trending list impersonated OpenAI's "Privacy Filter" project to deliver information-stealing malware to Windows users. [...]

Artificial intelligence that is embedded in newer editions of software and other technology tools but is not explicitly revealed by vendors is a substantial risk on par with shadow AI, said regulatory attorney Elizabeth Hodge with the law firm Akerman LLP.

The increase is being driven by powerful privacy laws in states like California, new interstate partnerships and a renewed focus on the privacy impacts of AI and automation. The post U.S. companies hit with record fines for privacy in 2025 appeared first on CyberScoop.

AMA Wants Privacy, Security AI Tool Protections, Especially in Mental HealthThe American Medical Association says using artificial intelligence chatbots carries risks - including data privacy and security breaches - and the largest U.S. professional association for physicians and medical students is urging Congress to take action to protect patients from potential harm.

Patients Allege Health Entities Did Not Get Consent to Record ConversationsProposed federal class action litigation alleges that two California healthcare organizations violated patient privacy in their use of an AI-enabled ambient tool that records, transcribes, and processes sensitive conversations between clinicians and patients without individuals' consent.

Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government interview The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer.…

Google's Kristie Chon Flynn on Building Privacy Into the AI Development Life CycleThree years into the modern artificial intelligence revolution, data protection can no longer be an afterthought - it must be engineered in from the start, said Kristie Chon Flynn, data protection officer of privacy, safety, security engineering at Google.

PLUS: Citrix CISO urges patch blitz; Mandiant founder reveals AI red-teaming tech; Bitter privacy news for Starbucks; And more Infosec In Brief Canadian outsourcer Telus Digital has admitted it fell victim to a cyberattack.…

OpenAI told BleepingComputer that ChatGPT ads on Free and Go plans are not yet rolling out outside the United States, even though some users noticed references to ads in the updated privacy policy. [...]

New CEO John Heyman Says Enterprises Need Tools to Manage Thousands of AI AgentsNew OneTrust CEO John Heyman said enterprises rapidly deploying generative AI will soon manage hundreds or thousands of AI agents across their organizations. They must monitor AI agents' data flows and third-party technologies as privacy risk and security oversight increasingly converge.

Contractors tasked with improving AI reportedly had access to intimate footage captured through wearables Britain's privacy watchdog is asking questions about Meta's AI-powered smart glasses after reports that human contractors reviewing recordings from the devices were exposed to extremely private moments captured by unsuspecting users.…

Attackers could have exploited the vulnerability to escalate privileges, violate user privacy while browsing, and access sensitive resources.