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Confidential computing company building security infrastructure for AI, including attestation-based tools that protect model weights and data in use.
Anthropic is licensing Opaque Systems' technology and hiring some staff, including its CEO and CTO, The Information reported. Neither company has detailed the terms, including what they mean for Opaque's open-source tooling.
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Anthropic took a license and some engineers from Opaque Systems, a startup valued near $300 million, cryptobriefing.com reported. Opaque's own post confirms an agreement but not those terms, and no price was disclosed.
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The Linux Foundation is taking over an open spec for hardware-signed agent runtime evidence. The producing side now has code and a spec; nobody has yet named who accepts the record.
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Enigmata's $6.5 million seed from Blockchange Ventures funds a cryptographic transform that standard machine-learning pipelines are meant to consume unchanged, with the accuracy and speed figures coming from the company's own unpublished tests.
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Weight Custody Manifest binds a model's decryption key to hardware attestation, which gives builders a lever once weights leave their data center. The public 91-case suite exercises protocol logic on synthetic certificate roots.
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OPAQUE's new specification turns licence terms into machine-readable policy that a key broker checks before every release of a decryption key. Whether that binds anything depends on parts the preview leaves open.
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The Linux Foundation now hosts TRACE, a format for evidence of what an AI agent actually did. The package that produces those records still ships as a developer preview.
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