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AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?

L2 · PractitionerIndustry & BusinessThe Verge AI$· 10/10/2026

Examines privacy claims that affect daily AI tool users' data security decisions

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makers like OpenAI and Meta are competing on privacy promises, but questions remain about whether they can actually deliver secure data protection.

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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. 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 pri

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