AI privacy

Gemini

Is Gemini 4 Argon Free? Who Gets It Now, What It Costs, and the Privacy Catch

Argon went public Oct 13 with no free tier. What AI Pro and Ultra get, API prices before they double Dec 1, and the training catch in the Gemini app.

Oct 13, 202610 min read

Reality check

Jev Reality Check: TypeSafe's Model Stays Closed, but Open Jev-Class Models Now Run Locally

Jev itself is still closed, but open Jev-class models now run on your own hardware. What works in Ollama, and what fits your GPU.

Sep 25, 202610 min read

Fable

Claude Fable 5.1 Ships With a Text Watermark: What It Proves, Whether You Can Remove It, and the Self-Hosted Way Around It

Fable 5.1 is the first Claude model that watermarks its text. What the mark proves, whether it can be removed, and why self-hosting is the clean answer.

Sep 1, 202610 min read

Claude

Are Your Shared Claude Chats Public? How to Check and Revoke Them

Shared Claude chats and artifacts appeared in Google results. What actually happened, why it keeps happening, and how to audit and revoke your shares.

Jul 27, 202610 min read

Fable

Claude Opus 5 or Fable 5: Which Model to Use, and What Each One Will Refuse

Anthropic's cheaper model is the less restricted one on cybersecurity and biology. A plain decision guide to Opus 5, Fable 5, Sonnet 5, and Kimi K3.

Jul 24, 202610 min read

Kimi

Is Kimi K3 Free? What You Actually Pay With

Everyone says try Kimi K3 free. We read the privacy policy: training on your content, no documented opt-out, and a storage jurisdiction it never names.

Jul 16, 202610 min read

Policy

It Was Never About Dario: The Deep History of Government AI Control

Pulling Claude offline and gating GPT-5.6 was not a surprise. The 70-year pattern behind AI's permission layer, and the local hedge that beats it.

Jun 27, 202610 min read

Policy

When the Government Decides Who Gets AI: The GPT-5.6 Signal

For the first time, Washington is gating who can run a frontier AI model. What the GPT-5.6 and Fable 5 moves mean, and the hedge that still works.

Jun 26, 202610 min read

Fable

When Will Claude Fable 5 Come Back? Predicting the Cost, ID Checks, and Realistic Timeline

Claude Fable 5 has been offline since June 12 under a US export-control order. A grounded, probability-weighted read on when it returns, what it will likely cost, and whether you will need to verify your ID, separating confirmed facts from the speculation...

Jun 24, 202610 min read

Open-source

Sakana Fugu vs Fable 5: Does It Actually Match the Frontier?

Sakana Fugu claims Fable 5-level performance with no export controls. Here's the honest read on the benchmarks, what they leave out, and if it delivers.

Jun 22, 20268 min read

Fable

Is OpenRouter Fusion Really "Fable-Level at Half the Price"? An Honest Look

OpenRouter Fusion fans your prompt to a panel of models and fuses the result. We test the "Fable-level at half the price" claim — honestly.

Jun 14, 202610 min read

How to Turn Off Gmail's AI: Every Switch, Including the Two Most People Miss

Google flipped Gmail's AI on by default and a class action followed. Every switch to disable it, including the two most people miss.

Jun 12, 20266 min read

Fable

Claude Fable 5's Silent Safeguards: The Backlash, the Reversal, and What It Proves About Cloud AI

Fable 5 shipped with safeguards that quietly degraded answers on AI-development tasks. Two days later, Anthropic made them visible. Here's what it proves.

Jun 11, 20269 min read

ChatGPT

Does ChatGPT Have Ads Now? What It Means for Your Privacy

ChatGPT now shows ads on Free and Go tiers, targeted by your chat history. What OpenAI collects, how to opt out, and the truly ad-free alternatives.

Jun 10, 20269 min read

Security

When AI Vendors Pull the Plug: The Case for AI Sovereignty

Account terminations are now industry-scale. The fix is not picking a better vendor — it is refusing to let any single vendor be a single point of failure.

Apr 18, 202615 min read

OpenAI

OpenAI Bought Its Own Media Coverage: What the TBPN Acquisition Means for AI Independence

OpenAI acquired tech talk show TBPN days before its expected IPO. The show now reports to a political strategist. Here is what it means for independent AI coverage.

Apr 2, 20268 min read

Perplexity AI Sued for Secretly Sharing User Chats With Meta and Google

A new class-action lawsuit claims Perplexity AI secretly shared user conversations with Meta and Google through hidden trackers, even in Incognito mode. Learn what the lawsuit alleges, what it means for your online privacy, and how your home network setup can help...

Apr 2, 20266 min read