📢 OpenAI Privacy Clash, Amazon’s Humanoids, Meta in Defense

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📢 OpenAI Privacy Clash, Amazon’s Humanoids, Meta in Defense

Plus: Apple’s Push Data Leaks, Meta’s AR Leap Forward.

Jose Montes de Oca

Jun 05, 2025

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Good morning. It’s Thursday, June 05. Today we are covering:

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
Amazon Prepares to Test Humanoid Robots for Delivering Packages
Meta's Push Into Defense Tech Reflects Cultural Shift, CTO Says
Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Here's what's inside Meta's experimental new AR glasses

Let’s dive in

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats

By Ashley Belanger via Ars Technica

OpenAI is challenging a court order requiring the preservation of all ChatGPT logs—including deleted chats and API data—arguing the directive was rushed, lacks justification, and violates user privacy rights across ChatGPT Free, Plus, Pro, and API services.
The company contends the order imposes “sweeping, unprecedented” burdens, potentially breaching user contracts and global privacy laws, while forcing OpenAI to divert engineering resources to retain data users explicitly tried to delete, including sensitive personal and corporate information.
Public backlash erupted on platforms like LinkedIn and X, with privacy advocates and industry professionals warning of serious security risks, contractual breaches, and recommending alternatives like Google Gemini and Mistral AI as OpenAI seeks to vacate the order and protect its users’ control over their data.

𝕏: Don't ask AI anything you wouldn't want opposing counsel to read during discovery. Anything you say may indeed be used against you in a court of law. This is infinitely worse than "your Google searches reveal a lot about you". - DHH (@dhh)

Amazon Prepares to Test Humanoid Robots for Delivering Packages

By Rocket Drew via The Information

Amazon is preparing to pilot humanoid robots for internal package delivery tasks, a move that could eventually expand to last-mile delivery operations.
The robots, developed by Agility Robotics, are expected to begin trials in Amazon warehouses as part of its ongoing automation strategy.
This effort reflects Amazon’s long-term vision to reduce reliance on human labor and streamline logistics through advanced robotics and AI.

𝕏: Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots that could eventually take the jobs of delivery workers. Amazon is completing construction of a "humanoid park," an indoor obstacle course where it will soon test such robots in California. The company plans to use hardware from other firms in its tests, for now - Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt)

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Meta's Push Into Defense Tech Reflects Cultural Shift, CTO Says

By Riley Griffin via Bloomberg

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth stated that a cultural shift in Silicon Valley has made it more acceptable for tech firms to engage with U.S. military efforts.
He noted a long-standing but previously muted “silent majority” within the tech industry that has supported defense-related work.
Bosworth’s remarks came during an interview at the Bloomberg Tech Summit in San Francisco, signaling Meta's growing interest in defense technology.

𝕏: Zuck is spineless. Wielded the censorship hammer on behalf of Biden WH relentlessly, put it away under Trump. “There's long existed a ‘silent majority’ [at Meta] who wanted to pursue defense projects”...who were vilified before the winds shifted. - Adam Rossi (@rossiadam)

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications

By Joseph Cox via 404 Media

Apple has shared push notification data with governments worldwide, revealing that such data can identify a user's device and sometimes include unencrypted message content, such as the actual text displayed.
A notable example includes Israel requesting data on nearly 700 push notifications in a single instance—though Apple ultimately did not fulfill that specific request.
The practice came to light in 2023 through Senator Ron Wyden, highlighting how both Apple and Google receive metadata and potentially unencrypted content linked to notifications, raising significant privacy concerns.

𝕏: "The data for the first time puts a concrete figure on how many requests governments around the world are making, and sometimes receiving, for push notification data from Apple." - Sam Biddle (@samfbiddle)

Here's what's inside Meta's experimental new AR glasses

By Emma Roth via The Verge

Meta’s Aria Gen 2 smart glasses are a research-only prototype aimed at shaping future computing platforms through advanced eye- and hand-tracking, enabling nuanced human-computer interaction.
The glasses feature gaze-per-eye tracking, blink detection, 3D object recognition, and heart rate sensing via a photoplethysmography sensor, plus a contact mic for better audio in noisy environments and a light sensor for ambient lighting differentiation.
With foldable arms, a 75g frame, and eight size options, Aria Gen 2 builds on Meta’s prior Project Aria, supporting broader AR research and product development alongside efforts like Ray-Ban smart glasses, Orion AR glasses, and the rumored “Hypernova” headset.

𝕏: Meta is searching for exclusive content for a premium VR headset it plans to release next year Millions of dollars for exclusive immersive videos offered to studios such as Disney, A24, others Meta hopes this will attract people to their Apple Vision Pro rival - SadlyItsDadley (@SadlyItsBradley)

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