An AI Toy Exposed 50K Logs of Its Chats With Kids To Anyone With a Gmail Account

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By BeauHDJan 30, 2026, 12:02 am273 pts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Earlier this month, Joseph Thacker's neighbor mentioned to him that she'd preordered a couple of stuffed dinosaur toys for her children. She'd chosen the toys, called Bondus, because they offered an AI chat feature that lets children talk to the toy like a kind of…

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