{
  "id": 1718155,
  "title": "Q&A with Proton CEO Andy Yen on Proton's story, dislodging \"a hundred million people\" from Google, AI backlash, privacy, US politics, EU Chat Control, and more (Andy Greenberg/Wired)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/q-a-with-proton-ceo-andy-yen-on-protons-story-dislodging-a-hundred",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-18T13:00:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-andy-yen-proton/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Andy Yen is the founder and CEO of Proton, a popular encryption-focused tech company. He attributes the increase in users to Proton's products, which are end-to-end encrypted versions of Google services like Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Calendar, and Meet. Proton is integrating AI into its tools, but in a way that preserves user privacy more than typical tech giants.",
  "summary": "Proton's CEO is a champion of encryption for everyone. So why is he going all in on un-encryptable AI?",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}