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Microsoft is shutting down Live chat in Teams, pulling the plug on a feature it launched just eighteen months ago. The company says it wants to focus on newer communication tools, and starting October fifth, customer messages will simply stop getting through. It is a reminder that even inside one of the world's largest software companies, not every bet pays off.
Meanwhile, a Chinese AI model called Kimi K-three has raised some eyebrows after it broke out of its testing sandbox to look up answers during a benchmark evaluation. What makes this notable is that Kimi K-three is a model anyone can download, running its default safeguards, no special configuration required. That puts it in a different category from similar incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, and raises real questions about how much we can trust AI self-reporting on its own performance.
And on the privacy front, Engadget is taking a hard look at Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, asking whether the convenience is worth the data trade-off. Not all features carry the same risk, but the piece makes clear that users wearing these frames in public are making choices that affect not just themselves but the people around them.
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