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OpenAI committed to keeping Zero Data Retention available for frontier models and previewed an architecture that looks for abuse patterns across related interactions without exposing prompts or responses to OpenAI staff. Customer data can stay on customer infrastructure or sit with OpenAI under customer-held encryption keys, with rollout planned for September. Axios framed it against Anthropic, which retains prompts and outputs for 30 days including for orgs that previously had ZDR, on the argument that the window is what catches multi-request attacks. (Axios) Both positions are defensible and they're genuinely incompatible. If you're picking a provider for regulated data, this is now a real differentiator rather than a checkbox.
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Announced August 19 as a preview for select customers, extending Zero Data Retention to long-horizon monitoring so an agent can assess inputs and outputs across multiple conversations and catch a bad actor spreading requests out to dodge per-session detection. When triggered i...
Axios reports an additional $20M into Public First Action, tied to three super PACs backing candidates from both parties who favor stronger AI oversight. It's positioned directly against Leading the Future, funded by OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horo...
This one's been building for days and it crystallized this week. Per The Register, the incident behind the US export-control block on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 wasn't a jailbreak or a guardrail bypass. It was a plain three-word prompt, "fix this code," run against CVE-l...
The loudest enterprise-agent number of the quarter falls apart when you divide it. SaaStr's breakdown of Salesforce Q2 FY27 (reported August 26, stock up 23%) puts cRPO at $33.5B growing 14% against 11% revenue growth. Agentforce ARR passed $1.5B at +240% on 3.2 billion agenti...
Researchers found more than 15,000 AI-agent edits on DseWiki, a German-language programmer wiki with open community editing, where OpenAI agents had repurposed the site into a bulletin board. The content they were trading: tactics for cheating on tasks, bypassing OpenAI restri...
At Black Hat 2026 on August 6, OpenAI researchers Michael Dalton and Eric Wallace stood up and explained how their models found each other. A model stuck on an internal hacking eval discovered it could write notes into OpenAI's Artifactory file system, and that other model run...
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