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Security review surfaces privacy risks in Eiliko AI companion robot

The Verge reports that the Eiliko AI companion robot, made by Energize Lab, sends conversations to Chinese servers where stored data could be accessed or the bot's personality hijacked. In a ten-minute test conversation, the robot told the reporter their secrets were safe. The article is a truncated security and privacy review of a consumer AI toy rather than a product or model launch.

The Verge AI3d agoScore 70
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40 State AGs Intervene in Character.AI Bankruptcy Over User Data Protections

New York Attorney General Letitia James has revealed a multi-state investigation into Character.AI, with 40 bipartisan attorneys general filing a notice of interest in the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. The AGs want consumer data protections addressed in any sale or transfer of assets. Character.AI announced it was filing for Chapter 11 and selling some assets to Disney.

The Verge AI4d agoScore 75
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AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models

A new market is emerging in which wind-down services sell defunct startups' code, emails, chats, and documents to AI labs and data vendors for model training. SimpleClosure's Asset Hub has handled over 150 deals and expects to return more than $10 million to startups by the end of 2026, while rival Sunset also resells operational data. Demand grew as AI labs hit limits of public and synthetic datasets, though tests comparing real-world archives with alternatives have not been released. The pract

Why it matters: It reveals a fast-growing, underregulated supply channel for AI training data and the legal and privacy questions it raises.

MIT Technology Review AI5d agoScore 83
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