June 9, 2026

Meta AI removes hidden face-recognition, OpenAI files for IPO

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Meta AI removed a hidden face-recognition system from its smart glasses app, and OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, took a big step towards going public.

ChatGPT

OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT, has confidentially filed paperwork to become a publicly traded company.

From there, Schmidt, who also has a 14-year-old stepson, became something of an AI evangelist.

Schmidt is one of a growing cohort of women branding themselves as a new type of momfluencer—not one who uses aspirational imagery to make the mundane labor associated with mother.

Meta AI

Meta has removed a hidden face-recognition system from the app that works with its smart glasses.

This change happened after a report revealed the system was quietly included in the app.

One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it, acc.

Gemini

Apple’s drastic overhaul of Siri , announced Monday at WWDC 2026 , attempts to make the smartphone voice assistant more helpful, attuned to iPhone users’ personal data, and action.

After extended delays, Apple is moving forward with a dynamic repositioning of Siri that changes how the voice assistant appears on iPhones and gives people a new way to access it.

Before this announcement, Siri had stayed relatively static while the generative AI revolution raged around it.