AI

Kickbacks.ai promises developers a share of ad revenue while their coding assistants work. But the fine print reveals a far less generous bargain— one that may put their privacy, accounts, and even jobs at risk.

Gemini identified and blocked billions of bad ads in Google Play, claims Google in its yearly report. This highlights the growing role of AI in ad blocking, but also Google's reliance on ads.

In an experiment gone viral, a person wearing smart glasses was able to find out extensive personal information about strangers just by glancing at them. How dangerous is this new tech?

AI is omnipresent today, and to feed the beast companies seek more and more data. What can you do to protect your information from ending up in some AI’s training dataset?

Anthropic, an OpenAI rival best known for its Claude chatbot, has seized on the ad debate — and the way it chose to do so says a lot about how intransigent the AI arms race has become.

The ads recently promised by OpenAI have arrived in ChatGPT, both in beta Android app and the web app. Let’s see what they look like and if AdGuard will be able to block them.

After months and years of speculation, OpenAI finally confirms that ads are coming to ChatGPT, and coming very soon. What will they look like and will it be possible to fight against them?

In this research, AdGuard's developer Maxim Topciu explores different methods of employing LLMs to block ads automatically, without the need for filter lists, and presents a working prototype that you can try out yourself.

Gemini, Google’s AI-powered chatbot, can access your WhatsApp messages — even if your Gemini App Activity is turned off. But how does it do this, and what are the potential risks to your privacy?

Data broking is a highly profitable industry responsible for those creepy invasive ads that chase you around the web. The industry is worth over $250 billion and while it thrives on selling your personal data to thousands of third parties, it does so largely behind closed doors.