AnalysisOpinion / analysisAgents & Tool Use · Safety & Alignment · Policy & Regulation1 source · Oct 10, 2026

AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?

At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI.

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Key points

  • OpenAI would spend the day taking veiled shots at Meta's Muse, its primary competitor, for failing to keep users' data safe.
  • Yet Muse itself, a couple of months earlier, had launched as a supposedly safer alternative to predecessor OpenClaw - with CEO Mark Zuckerberg promising it was "built from the ground up for privacy and security."
  • In an age when companies hoard customers' personal data and cyberattacks are a dime a dozen, AI labs are trying to convince user ...
  • Read the full story at The Verge.

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  • [1]AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?
    The Verge: AI · Oct 10, 01:00 PM
    At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI.
    OpenAI would spend the day taking veiled shots at Meta's Muse, its primary competitor, for failing to keep users' data safe.

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