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Which AI APIs Train on Your Data? Free Tiers, Paid APIs and Retention, Checked Against 18 Providers' Own Terms (October 2026)
Free tiers are where training happens: Google's unpaid quota outside the EEA, Switzerland and the UK, Mistral's Free mode, and some OpenRouter free models. Paid APIs mostly say no. Retention is a separate question, and four providers' own docs disagree with themselves.
14 min read
Freebuff Review: The Free Coding Agent Paid for by Ads, and What It Costs You
Freebuff is a free coding agent paid for by text ads. What the free tier includes, how Freebucks limit usage, and what the privacy policy says about your code.
8 min read
EU Forces Google to Open 11 Android Features to Third-Party AI Assistants
The EU's final DMA decision gives third-party AI assistants the Android access Gemini has, from DSP wake words to screen automation. What it unlocks and when.
7 min read
US Prosecutors Charge Traveler Over GrapheneOS Phone Wipe During Airport Search
A GrapheneOS duress PIN wiped a traveler's phone during a CBP airport search, and US prosecutors charged him for it. The case, HN debate and developer stakes.
8 min read
TP-Link Kasa Cameras Leaked Home GPS Coordinates for Six Years
TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked precise home GPS coordinates over unauthenticated UDP for years. How the flaw works, the disclosure timeline, and the second CVE.
7 min read
xAI Open-Sources Grok Build After Data Exfiltration Scandal
Days after getting caught uploading entire codebases to xAI servers, Grok Build is now open source on GitHub. The HN community isn't convinced it's enough.
6 min read
What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends Home: A Wire-Level Analysis
Grok Build CLI wire-level analysis: a researcher found it uploads whole repositories, including .env secrets, to xAI servers. What the captured traffic shows.
6 min read
Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests
Claude Code request marking: hidden unicode apostrophe and date-format markers flag timezone, domain and lab keywords. What was found and what to do about it.
7 min read
The Best Local Coding LLMs in 2026: Run Enterprise-Grade AI Without the Cloud
Best local coding LLMs in 2026: which models to run on what hardware, how they benchmark, owned hardware versus cloud API costs, and setups by team size.
8 min read
Client-Side Tool Calling Is the Privacy Pattern AI Apps Need
Client-side tool calling keeps sensitive documents in the browser while the model requests narrow actions. How it works and what still leaves the machine.
7 min read
OpenAI Privacy Filter: Production PII Redaction Guide
OpenAI Privacy Filter is an open-weight PII redactor. How to wire it into a local RAG ingestion pipeline and how it benchmarks against Presidio and regex.
10 min read
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