Express AI is a private AI chat platform built by ExpressVPN, offering five models, end-to-end encryption, and zero data retention for Pro subscribers.
Lumo is Proton’s privacy-first AI assistant with zero-access encryption, no data logging, and open-source models at a price below ChatGPT Plus.
In my battle of image generators, some models understood the assignment better than others.
Duck.ai offers private, no-login AI chat through DuckDuckGo, with six free models and paid tiers that unlock GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.7, and more.
DeepSeek delivers frontier-class AI performance at a fraction of competitor prices, but serious privacy concerns make it a complicated choice for businesses.
AI may have killed Stack Overflow while training on the same platform, as it pushed expert contributors away from the platform
MeetingTV sues Koi Security over alleged AI-generated false claims linking its software to Chinese cybercrime, causing reputational and business damage.
Proton’s Lumo 2.0 finally looks like a real ChatGPT rival with reasoning, image generation, web search, and memory baked in.
A revealing new Future survey suggests users are cooling on the idea of AI, for a variety of different reasons.
We’re constantly told AI is inevitable and resisting it means falling behind. But after a year of talking to people about AI, I think something else is going on.