MacPaw vs Proton

MacPaw Launches Leebry to Help Overstretched Teams Automate Routine IT Work

MacPaw has launched Leebry, a new product aimed at helping overstretched teams automate routine IT work.

MacPaw partners with Liquid AI for on-device inference

MacPaw has partnered with Liquid AI to develop locally hosted AI capabilities for its apps and to enable on-device inference. The companies plan to build an on-device inference system called Elix and a local memory system to power a locally hosted version of MacPaw’s AI assistant Eney. MacPaw intends to prepare its SetApp subscription app store for AI apps, experiment with credit-based pricing for AI operations, and eventually make the on-device inference stack available to third-party developers while providing access to cloud models from providers such as Google. Liquid AI says it tailors model architectures to hardware to maximize on-device performance and supports model customization using user data.

• MacPaw partnered with Liquid AI to power its products with locally hosted AI models and to make the tech stack available to developers.
• Liquid AI is developing an on-device inference system called Elix and a local memory system for MacPaw’s locally hosted AI.
• MacPaw plans a locally hosted version of its AI assistant Eney and aims to enable offline assistants and agentic workflows.

Proton partners with Apertus, Switzerland's sovereign AI model

Proton has partnered with the team behind Apertus, adding their sovereign AI model to its privacy-first AI chatbot Lumo.

Keep important emails in focus with Proton Mail Categories

Proton Mail now sorts your inbox into Categories automatically, while keeping the contents of your email private. Less noise, more focus.

Proton’s Tool Reveals What ChatGPT and Claude Know

Swiss provider Proton launched AI Paper Trail, a browser tool that analyzes exported chat data (zip/json) from ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude to summarize what those chatbots may have learned about a user. The tool — which currently supports ChatGPT and Claude exports — reports metrics such as a “Privacy Exposure” score and an estimated monetary value of a user’s data. A Bitkom survey of 1,003 Germans found 34% of AI users consult chatbots for health questions and 43% of respondents worry personal data are not securely stored by AI providers. The article notes OpenAI and Anthropic say they do not build advertising profiles from user data but may use exports for model training depending on settings; deleted chats can still be retained in some cases (Anthropic: at least 30 days). Proton positions the tool to highlight privacy exposure and to promote its privacy-focused Lumo chatbot; its transparency report shows past compliance with Swiss authority orders for Proton Mail.

• Bitkom survey of 1,003 Germans: 34% of AI users consult chatbots for health questions; 43% of respondents worry AI providers do not securely store personal data.
• Proton introduced AI Paper Trail, a browser tool that analyzes exported ChatGPT and Claude chat files (zip/json) and reports a Privacy Exposure score and estimated data value.
• OpenAI and Anthropic say they do not create advertising profiles from user data but may use exported data for model training depending on settings; deleted chats can still be retained or processed under some conditions.