Jonathan Kanter is using AI to take on Big Tech

When Jonathan Kanter stepped down as head of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division in 2024, he set out to keep fighting to dismantle illegal monopolies. But this time, he’s continuing the fight in the private sector, and with a perhaps unexpected tool: AI. Alongside former acting Antitrust Division chief Doha Mekki, Kanter recently launched a … Read more

Instagram’s AI age detection is expanding globally

Meta is globally expanding the age estimation technology it uses to find teenagers on Instagram who haven’t correctly disclosed their age. The rollout will automatically place “millions more teens on Instagram into Teen Account protections,” according to Meta’s announcement, after launching the AI-powered age assurance updates in the US, EU, and Brazil last year. The … Read more

Torrent underground

When Jane first heard about Memory and Imagination, a rare 1990s documentary about the Library of Congress, she was intrigued. But the Canadian writer in her 30s couldn’t find the movie anywhere — not on streaming services, not on YouTube, not on pirate sites — and her intrigue turned into obsession. Worried it might become … Read more

Researchers Decrypt Hidden Chain-of-Thought From OpenAI, Anthropic and Google APIs

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs Authors: Alexander Panfilov, David Schmotz, Ilia Shumailov, Luca Beurer-Kellner, Joachim Schaeffer, Ameya Prabhu, Jonas Geiping, Maksym Andriushchenko Abstract Leading large language model providers now conceal their models’ step-by-step reasoning, or chain-of-thought, to protect intellectual property and limit information leakage. Rather than storing these traces server-side, providers return them … Read more