Anthropic launches Enterprise Frontier Safeguards after customer pushback on data retention
Anthropic on Tuesday announced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, a new offering that gives businesses control over how their data is reviewed, stored, and managed. The move follows customer pushback against a controversial data retention policy, which the company said it will walk back after receiving 'a lot of feedback' from business customers.
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Ashley Capoot / CNBC : Anthropic launches Enterprise Frontier Safeguards to let businesses control how their data is reviewed, stored, and managed, after pushback from customers — Anthropic on Tuesday announced it will walk back a controversial data retention policy after “a lot of feedback” from its business customers …
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