Microsoft will release controversial Windows Recall AI search feature to testers in October

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1. Microsoft will release controversial Windows Recall AI search feature to testers in October

Microsoft will release its controversial Recall AI search feature for Windows users to test starting in October. Recall takes screenshots of activity on screen to search for information they saw earlier. Security researchers expressed concerns about the risks of Windows automatically capturing images without users opting in.

Microsoft responded in June by saying Recall would be turned off by default and committed to security enhancements. The company did not specify the timing for a broader release for Windows computers that meet the system requirements for the Recall feature, which the company calls Copilot+ PCs.

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2. Kim Jong Un inspects new ‘suicide drones,’ urges incorporation of AI

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has praised researchers for developing artificial intelligence for unmanned vehicles, including suicide drones. He visited the Drone Institute and viewed a successful test of drones identifying and destroying targets.

Kim called for more suicide drones for tactical infantry and special operation units, including underwater attack and strategic reconnaissance. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said more analysis is necessary to determine performance improvements.

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3. YouTube has a new tool to help restore hacked channels: an AI chatbot

YouTube has introduced an AI assistant feature to assist users in recovering accounts targeted by hackers. The chatbot, accessed via the YouTube Help Center, will guide hacked creators through securing their Google logins and reversing changes to their channels.

Currently available in English, the feature is limited to a select group of creators. However, it may not address the issue of YouTube being difficult to contact for smaller accounts, as issues like account hacking have previously taken longer for larger accounts to resolve.

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4. Meta Presents Sapiens: Foundation for Human Vision Models

Sapiens is a collection of high-resolution vision transformer models pretrained on millions of human images, aiming to advance computer vision in areas such as 3D human digitization, keypoint estimation, and body-part segmentation. 

The methodology combines large-scale pretraining with high-quality annotations, achieving robust generalization, broad applicability, and high fidelity in real-world scenarios. The Sapiens models demonstrated strong performance across four primary tasks, with improvements linked to pretraining data quality and quantity.

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5. Google released an extensive prompt library that developers can use to build their own tools

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