Siri Privacy, ArXiv Cracks Down

By the Dovetail editors · 4 min read

TL;DR

Apple's revamped Siri will let users auto-delete chat histories, leaning hard into privacy as a differentiator
ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI write their papers
Greg Brockman takes over OpenAI product strategy as ChatGPT and Codex merge

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Apple bets privacy can make Siri matter again

The revamped Siri coming in iOS 27 will let users auto-delete chat histories after 30 days, one year or keep them forever. It's a clear play to differentiate from ChatGPT and Gemini, which mostly only offer temporary incognito modes if anything.

ArXiv will ban AI-lazy authors for a year

The research preprint server is cracking down on papers where authors clearly let an LLM do all the heavy lifting. Offenders face a 12-month ban from submitting.

Greg Brockman takes the wheel at OpenAI product

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is now leading product strategy, with the company reportedly planning to combine ChatGPT and its coding tool Codex into a single product.