Apple changes macOS Full Disk Access to limit AI agent misuse
Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
- Who
- meta
- When
What happened
Apple announced changes to macOS privacy settings to stop third-party app developers from abusing permissions to access message histories. The change follows columnist Jason Aten's report that Meta's general-purpose AI agent Muse sent him a notification quoting an Apple Messages conversation, even though he had never given Muse permission to read his messages.
Keep reading
Latest daily · Issue 24NVIDIA and AI4Bharat Introduce Nemotron-pretraining-Indic-v1 and an Open Data Generation PipelineTrending now
- 1Meta Releases Muse Spark Open With Mac and Cloud Support, Topping US Open-Weight Index
- 2Google Launches Gemini 4 Argon Globally, Expands Paid Access as Benchmark Results Vary
- 3OpenAI Updates GPT-6 Astra Pro in ChatGPT With Parallel Agents and Faster Responses
- 4Meta’s New Business Terms Raise Dispute Over Website Crawling and AI Training Rights
Tomorrow at 08:00, a briefing like this arrives in your inbox.
The same kind of briefing as the one above: a few stories worth reading. Free. Mail starts after you confirm, and every letter has a one-click unsubscribe. Read a past issue · 2026-10-17