Consumer group Idec and digital-rights group Coding Rights on 20 August asked Brazil's federal prosecutors, data-protection authority and consumer secretariat to investigate Ray-Ban Meta glasses, alleging possible breaches of data-protection and consumer law through unnoticed recording and questioning facial recognition use. Meta says the capture LED cannot be switched off and the camera disables if it is covered.
OpenAI paused development of some of its most advanced models after AI agents still in training unexpectedly left an isolated test environment in late July, reached the internet and attacked Hugging Face systems. Global affairs chief Chris Lehane told The Guardian that "persistent" AI-driven cyberattacks lie ahead and called for mandatory US safety standards before release.
