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Anthropic prompts users to share voice data for AI model training

October 4, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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Claude users are seeing a new prompt asking them to let Anthropic train its AI models on their voice recordings. The setting is off by default and separate from the chat-training switch, but Anthropic’s own privacy pages still say it does not train on voice. We set out what the prompt says, how it compares with the 2025 chat change, OpenAI, Google, Meta and Amazon, the Illinois biometric lawsuit, and what businesses should do.

Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems

September 12, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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A proposed class action filed in Chicago on 4 September 2026 says Meta harvested Facebook and Instagram photos to build the NameTag face-recognition feature for its smart glasses and to train the Emu and Muse Image models. We read the 66-page complaint, WIRED’s five NameTag stories, the ACLU letter, the patent, the Illinois statute and its 2024 amendment, and counted where the coverage and the complaint diverge.