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Reducing Privacy leaks in AI: Two approaches to contextual integrity  

November 25, 2025
New research explores two ways to give AI agents stronger privacy safeguards grounded in contextual integrity. One adds lightweight, inference-time checks; the other builds contextual awareness directly into models through reasoning and RL.

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    April 23, 2025

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    January 17, 2025

    In this edition: Privacy enhancements for multiparty deep learning; using smaller, open-source models to provide relevance judgments; new tool uses AI, data to automate innovation and development; Yasuyuki Matsushita named IEEE 2025 Computer Society Fellow.

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  6. Research Focus: Week of December 2, 2024

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    December 4, 2024

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