🤐 Can AI Keep a Secret?

In today’s email:

🔐 FHE to the rescue—Learn how Fully Homomorphic Encryption is making AI safer and less creepy by protecting sensitive data.

⚖️ Copyright Wars 2025—Tech giants like OpenAI and Meta are facing off against authors, artists, and musicians in a heated battle over AI training data. Who’s going to win?

🕰️ Is your body aging faster than you think? Discover how AI-powered “aging clocks” are changing the way we think about growing older.

Curious? Keep scrolling!

🔒 How FHE Makes AI Less Creepy

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) – this thing that sounds like a mouthful – has been around since the late 70s, long before AI became the buzzword it is now. But the rise of generative AI, especially after 2022, has given FHE a huge spotlight. Why? Because AI needs loads of sensitive data, and well, privacy’s become a bit of a concern. Enter FHE, which lets computers do calculations on encrypted data without ever unlocking it.

Now, big companies like Apple, Microsoft, and IBM are getting into the FHE game, improving the tech and making it more accessible to developers. But it’s not all smooth sailing – FHE still struggles with speed, cost, and handling large datasets.

Here’s what’s happening:

• Apple’s tech is making FHE easier for developers.

• New cryptographic techniques are improving efficiency.

• Hardware acceleration is speeding things up.

And where could this be really useful? Think of healthcare, where hospitals could share data for research without exposing anything sensitive.

⚔️ Copyright Wars 2025

Looks like 2025 is shaping up to be AI’s legal reality check, as a bunch of copyright lawsuits are gunning for tech companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic. Authors, musicians, artists—you name it—are all saying, "Hey, you used my work to train your fancy chatbots without asking or paying up!"

The big legal question? Whether this counts as "fair use." If the courts side with the techies, they get a free pass. If not, the AI industry might be reaching for its wallet.

Some key points:

• The stakes: Copyright owners want compensation; tech companies say it’s "transformative" creativity.

• Who’s fighting: OpenAI, Meta, etc., vs. big names like record labels, the NYT, and even songwriters.

• The gray areas: Judges in different courts might make conflicting decisions.

A Reuters competitor sued an AI startup over using legal research data, and music publishers are battling Anthropic for using song lyrics. One judge even threw out a case because the plaintiffs couldn’t prove they were hurt.

🕛 Is Your Body Older Than You?

Ever wondered if you could turn back the clock on your biological age? Well, science says… maybe! Researchers at King’s College London are using AI-powered “aging clocks” to figure out how fast we’re actually aging—and it’s not just about candles on your birthday cake anymore. It’s about metabolites (fancy talk for the little molecules floating in your blood that are made when you digest food or burn energy).

Here’s the gist:

• MileAge (their clever name for biological age) is all about how old your body feels based on blood markers.

• What is the difference between your actual age and your MileAge? That’s your MileAge delta—a.k.a. are you aging like fine wine or a dropped avocado?

Key takeaways from the study:

• If your MileAge is higher than your real age, it’s a bad sign: more frailty, worse health, shorter telomeres (DNA bits linked to aging), and higher mortality risk.

• A lower MileAge? Nice, but it doesn’t guarantee you’ll feel amazing.

• AI nailed it using Cubist regression, a machine-learning model that’s pretty good at predicting the nitty-gritty.

Aging clocks could give you a heads-up on health problems, help you make better choices, and maybe even cheat Father Time.

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