Can AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton’s Andy Yen Says It Will Have To

We need private AI before it's too late | Proton

Big Tech companies are building AI aligned with their surveillance capitalism business model. We need a privacy-first and responsible AI alternative today.

Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning

Proton CEO Andy Yen projects a calm persona and rails against Big Tech and critiques AI. Internally, he is pushing engineers to build Proton with AI, even when they have security concerns.

Japan relaxes privacy laws to make AI development easy

: Opting out of personal data use won't be an option because Minister says that's a 'very big obstacle' to AI adoption

Apple Intelligence Promises Better AI Privacy. Here’s How It Actually Works

Private Cloud Compute is an entirely new kind of infrastructure that, Apple’s Craig Federighi tells WIRED, allows your personal data to be “hermetically sealed inside of a privacy bubble.”

OpenClaw – NEAR AI

Run the internet’s favorite new AI agent with NEAR AI’s cryptographic privacy guarantees.

Privatemode AI - The always encrypted AI service

Privatemode is the first AI service that protects the confidentiality of your data end-to-end. Use AI without security and privacy worries.

Proton survey: People don't trust AI, but they tell it everything | Proton

New research finds that most AI chatbot users have shared something sensitive, but few trust the companies behind them.

Tinfoil - Private AI

AI that keeps your data private at all times. Fast, powerful, and verifiable, thanks to secure hardware enclaves.

Proton CEO responds to backlash after his post supporting Trump's selection sparks Reddit firestorm

On Reddit, it’s often a single post that ignites a firestorm of reactions. Andy Yen, founder and CEO of Proton Privacy, recently found himself in the hot seat after a seemingly innocuous commendation of Donald Trump’s nomination of Gail Slater as Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division. What started as a simple pat on […]

Private AI engineering and product notes

First-hand engineering notes about private AI, end-to-end encryption, confidential computing, encrypted memory, and Confer.

Luozhu on Twitter / X

For AI products, people generally think the intelligence dominates everything, while privacy and cost are seen as secondary. The industry’s path shows this: we’ve spent huge money in leading labs to build the largest models with exceptional intelligence.But I believe we’ve… pic.twitter.com/oobAyk55rh— Luozhu (@LuozhuZhang) September 10, 2025

The hidden cost of Google's AI defaults and the illusion of choice

Google says it respects user privacy in AI, but the reality is not so black and white.

Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having 'profound' security and privacy issues | TechCrunch

Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking onstage at the SXSW conference in

Lumo: Privacy-first AI assistant where chats stay confidential

Meet Lumo, the zero-access encrypted AI assistant by Proton that does not track or record your conversations. Ask me anything — it's confidential