Anthropic plans to change enterprise data retention policy, source says

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Anthropic plans to let enterprise customers exercise greater control ​over their data when using its advanced ‌AI models, a source familiar ​with the matter said on ⁠Thursday, marking a shift in the Claude chatbot maker’s data retention policy.

The company ‌is expected to roll out a new safety system later ‌this year, the person said.

Under the ⁠changes to the data retention policy, Anthropic will still require business customers to retain ​data for 30 ‌days but will give them the option to keep it on their own cloud computing infrastructure, the ‌source said.

The proposed changes ​have been in the works for months, and Anthropic has ⁠been coordinating with over 100 customers, including Salesforce, to develop the system, ‌the person said.

Anthropic had said in June it would require 30-day retention of all enterprise customer traffic on ‌its more powerful Fable and Mythos models, as ​well as future frontier models, to help guard against potential ⁠cyberattacks using its technology.

On Wednesday, rival ⁠ OpenAI announced a safety system that avoids retaining customer data, ‌while still being able to identify potential misuse of the technology.

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