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Washington Post
3 days ago
- General
- Washington Post
Tennis takes over Wimbledon's High Street
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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
The AI Privacy Crisis Has a Solution: Kynismos AI Launches Revolutionary Platform That Makes Your Conversations Truly Invisible
NEW YORK, NY - July 8, 2025 (NEWMEDIAWIRE) - Kynismos AI is challenging the status quo of modern artificial intelligence. Every day, millions of people pour their most intimate thoughts into AI systems that promise to help them think, create, and solve problems. What they don't realize is that every word becomes permanent evidence in corporate databases, accessible to insurers, employers, law enforcement, and data brokers who treat human curiosity as a commodity. For professionals who work with clients, the stakes are even higher: every query into mainstream AI platforms creates potential liability exposure that could threaten careers and client relationships. Today, that changes. Kynismos AI announced the public launch of the world's first truly private AI platform, offering full access to ChatGPT, Claude, and other leading AI models through a revolutionary architecture that makes user surveillance mathematically impossible - even for Kynismos itself. "We're dismantling the surveillance business model that powers today's AI," said Andrew Sispoidis, CEO and co-founder of Kynismos AI. "Your thoughts should belong to you, not become training data for corporations or evidence in someone else's agenda." The Hidden Cost of "Free" AI While major AI platforms promise privacy through policies, the reality is stark: every prompt is logged, every conversation stored, and every interaction builds detailed psychological profiles that follow users for life. Insurance companies purchase "conversational data" to adjust premiums. Employers monitor AI usage. Courts subpoena chat logs as evidence. For professionals, this creates an impossible choice: avoid AI and fall behind competitively, or use it and accept unknown liability exposure. Lawyers worry about ethics violations. Healthcare professionals face regulatory concerns. Consultants risk exposing client strategies. Even paid AI subscriptions continue this data harvesting, because the real business model isn't your monthly fee - it's your digital identity. True Privacy Through Mathematical Certainty Kynismos AI operates on a fundamentally different principle: zero-knowledge architecture that encrypts and anonymizes user interactions before they ever leave a device. While AI models still process user queries to provide responses, Kynismos ensures they can never link those queries to any specific individual. "We didn't just promise privacy - we made surveillance physically impossible," explained Yuval Drori, CTO and co-founder. "The AI sees your question and provides an answer, but it has no idea who asked it. No tracking, no profiling, no permanent records tied to your identity." The technology works by encrypting prompts locally, stripping all identifying information, routing requests through anonymous proxy networks, and ensuring no logs, metadata, or identity traces remain anywhere in the system. Professional-Grade Power, Complete Anonymity Unlike privacy tools that compromise functionality, Kynismos AI offers the full power of leading AI models through an interface as simple as any mainstream platform. Users can access different AI systems to leverage their unique strengths - Claude's reasoning capabilities, ChatGPT's versatility - while maintaining complete anonymity. Rather than forcing users to maintain separate subscriptions to multiple AI services, Kynismos provides access to leading models through a single subscription. The current platform supports real-time access to ChatGPT, Claude, and other leading models, user-controlled model selection, seamless switching between models while maintaining anonymity, and complex query workflows - all with zero compromise on AI capabilities. The company is developing advanced features for subsequent releases, including intelligent model switching, concurrent agentic functions across multiple models, automated redaction, and confidential information protection. "You can access the best AI capabilities available while ensuring that your identity remains completely invisible to surveillance systems," Sispoidis said. "Future versions will enable AI agents to work concurrently across multiple models, delivering capabilities that no single AI platform can match." Beta Access Opens as Privacy Crisis Accelerates Kynismos AI is dramatically expanding its beta program ahead of the official launch at the end of July. The company is offering "Founder's Edition" access to early adopters who want to experience truly private AI before it becomes publicly available. "Every day people wait is another day their digital thoughts become permanent corporate assets," said Laura Bang, Growth Marketing Lead. As AI integrates deeper into daily life and professional practice, the window for establishing privacy-preserving alternatives is closing rapidly. Major AI companies are racing to lock in users and normalize surveillance-based models before privacy concerns reach mainstream consciousness. A Vision for Human-Centered AI "We're proving that technological advancement and human dignity can coexist," Sispoidis said. "The future of AI doesn't have to be built on tracking and profiling. It can be built on respect for human autonomy and the fundamental right to private thought." Kynismos AI's Founder's Edition is available immediately, with full public launch scheduled for the end of July 2025. The platform operates on a subscription model that aligns the company's incentives with user privacy rather than data extraction. "Our customers pay us directly instead of becoming the product," said COO Tina Santana. "It's a revolutionary concept: a technology company that actually serves the people who use it." About Kynismos AI Kynismos AI is a privacy-first artificial intelligence platform that enables users to access leading AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini without compromising their personal data or digital privacy. Through our revolutionary zero-knowledge architecture, user interactions remain completely private and anonymous - we literally cannot access, store, or share user data, even if compelled to do so. As AI becomes embedded in every aspect of daily life, Kynismos provides the essential infrastructure for maintaining human autonomy and digital sovereignty in an increasingly surveilled world. 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Entrepreneur
02-07-2025
- Business
- Entrepreneur
A New Way to Build in a Crowded Market
In the world of high-growth tech startups, boldness is often confused with bravado. But Sarah Bone, co-founder and CMO of YEO Messaging, is redefining what leadership — and success — looks like in a sector still too often shaped by Silicon Valley stereotypes. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You're reading Entrepreneur United Kingdom, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media. A London based communications platform built on end-to-end privacy and identity control, YEO Messanging was founded on principles many competitors have only recently begun to consider: no data monetisation, no surveillance capitalism, no compromise. And it's that early, uncompromising stance that Bone credits with much of the company's traction. "We made an early decision not to compromise on our values — especially around user privacy and identity control," she says. "While other comms platforms are now opting to monetise data, with tracking and ads for monetisation, we built YEO Messaging to protect identities. That clarity helped us cut through the noise, stand out in a crowded space, and has helped us earn the trust of new go-to-market partners and customers alike." For a woman leading in tech — a sector that still skews disproportionately male — Bone is refreshingly candid about the challenges, not just of the industry, but of the mindset women are often encouraged to carry into it. "Women are conditioned to over-prepare — to tick every box, build the perfect plan, and fix every 'flaw' before they even begin," she explains. "Here's the truth: tech rewards bold moves, not perfect ones. You don't need to be technical. You don't need to be ready. You just need to start. If you've got a great idea, go. You'll figure it out like the rest of us — mid-flight, with one wing missing." It's the kind of hard-earned wisdom that flies in the face of perfectionist paralysis — and it comes from someone who's been there. Bone isn't just building a business; she's also building visibility for women who rarely see themselves reflected in boardrooms or pitch decks. "As the only woman on the leadership team at YEO, I know how powerful visibility can be. You can't be what you can't see," she says. "So I make a point of showing up — on panels, in founder groups, and in conversations that matter. I'm open about the real highs and lows of building a tech company, because younger women need to hear the truth, not just the polished version." Bone's work in mentorship and culture-building reflects a broader philosophy — one that places empathy and emotional intelligence at the centre of innovation. "At YEO, we're intentional about inclusive hiring, offer mentoring where we can, and encourage emotional intelligence in our culture — and with suppliers and partners too — because empathy and openness drive better outcomes." It's a contrast to the dominant mythos of tech founders: brash, sleep-deprived, always-on. Bone believes there's another way to lead — and it might be more effective than the stereotype ever was. "That you have to be the loudest, most relentless, visionary tech orbit person in the room to lead? That's completely wrong," she says. "Tech loves the idea of the hard-charging, always-hustling founder who goes on to create empires of Silicon Valley wealth — but that's not the only way to do it. Some of the best leaders I've worked with are calm, curious, and know when to listen rather than speak." Leadership, in Bone's world, isn't about being at the centre of the room — it's about creating space in it. And in an industry obsessed with rapid growth and constant disruption, that kind of presence — steady, human, values-led — might just be the most radical act of all.
TechCrunch
25-06-2025
- Business
- TechCrunch
Sam Altman comes out swinging at The New York Times
From the moment OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stepped onstage, it was clear this was not going to be a normal interview. Altman and his chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, stood awkwardly toward the back of the stage at a jam-packed San Francisco venue that typically hosts jazz concerts. Hundreds of people filled steep theatre-style seating on Wednesday night to watch Kevin Roose, a columnist with The New York Times, and Platformer's Casey Newton record a live episode of their popular technology podcast, Hard Fork. Altman and Lightcap were the main event, but they'd walked out too early. Roose explained that he and Newton were planning to — ideally, before OpenAI's executives were supposed to come out — list off several headlines that had been written about OpenAI in the weeks leading up to the event. 'This is more fun that we're out here for this,' said Altman. Seconds later, the OpenAI CEO asked, 'Are you going to talk about where you sue us because you don't like user privacy?' Within minutes of the program starting, Altman hijacked the conversation to talk about The New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI and its largest investor, Microsoft, in which the publisher alleges that Altman's company improperly used its articles to train large language models. Altman was particularly peeved about a recent development in the lawsuit, in which lawyers representing The New York Times asked OpenAI to retain consumer ChatGPT and API customer data. 'The New York Times, one of the great institutions, truly, for a long time, is taking a position that we should have to preserve our users' logs even if they're chatting in private mode, even if they've asked us to delete them,' said Altman. 'Still love The New York Times, but that one we feel strongly about.' For a few minutes, OpenAI's CEO pressed the podcasters to share their personal opinions about the New York Times lawsuit — they demurred, noting that as journalists whose work appears in The New York Times, they are not involved in the lawsuit. Techcrunch event Save $200+ on your TechCrunch All Stage pass Build smarter. Scale faster. Connect deeper. Join visionaries from Precursor Ventures, NEA, Index Ventures, Underscore VC, and beyond for a day packed with strategies, workshops, and meaningful connections. Save $200+ on your TechCrunch All Stage pass Build smarter. Scale faster. Connect deeper. Join visionaries from Precursor Ventures, NEA, Index Ventures, Underscore VC, and beyond for a day packed with strategies, workshops, and meaningful connections. Boston, MA | REGISTER NOW Altman and Lightcap's brash entrance lasted only a few minutes, and the rest of the interview proceeded, seemingly, as planned. However, the flare-up felt indicative of the inflection point Silicon Valley seems to be approaching in its relationship with the media industry. In the last several years, multiple publishers have brought lawsuits against OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta for training their AI models on copyrighted works. At a high level, these lawsuits argue that AI models have the potential to devalue, and even replace, the copyrighted works produced by media institutions. But the tides may be turning in favor of the tech companies. Earlier this week, OpenAI competitor Anthropic received a major win in its legal battle against publishers. A federal judge ruled that Anthropic's use of books to train its AI models was legal in some circumstances, which could have broad implications for other publishers' lawsuits against OpenAI, Google, and Meta. Perhaps Altman and Lightcap felt emboldened by the industry win heading into their live interview with The New York Times journalists. But these days, OpenAI is fending off threats from every direction, and that became clear throughout the night. Mark Zuckerberg has recently been trying to recruit OpenAI's top talent by offering them $100 million compensation packages to join Meta's AI superintelligence lab, Altman revealed weeks ago on his brother's podcast. When asked whether the Meta CEO really believes in superintelligent AI systems, or if it's just a recruiting strategy, Lightcap quipped: 'I think [Zuckerberg] believes he is superintelligent.' Later, Roose asked Altman about OpenAI's relationship with Microsoft, which has reportedly been pushed to a boiling point in recent months as the partners negotiate a new contract. While Microsoft was once a major accelerant to OpenAI, the two are now competing in enterprise software and other domains. 'In any deep partnership, there are points of tension and we certainly have those,' said Altman. 'We're both ambitious companies, so we do find some flashpoints, but I would expect that it is something that we find deep value in for both sides for a very long time to come.' OpenAI's leadership today seems to spend a lot of time swatting down competitors and lawsuits. That may get in the way of OpenAI's ability to solve broader issues around AI, such as how to safely deploy highly intelligent AI systems at scale. At one point, Newton asked OpenAI's leaders how they were thinking about recent stories of mentally unstable people using ChatGPT to traverse dangerous rabbit holes, including to discuss conspiracy theories or suicide with the chatbot. Altman said OpenAI takes many steps to prevent these conversations, such as by cutting them off early, or directing users to professional services where they can get help. 'We don't want to slide into the mistakes that I think the previous generation of tech companies made by not reacting quickly enough,' said Altman. To a follow-up question, the OpenAI CEO added, 'However, to users that are in a fragile enough mental place, that are on the edge of a psychotic break, we haven't yet figured out how a warning gets through.'
Washington Post
17-06-2025
- General
- Washington Post
Why the U.S. should stay out of Iran
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