The Verge: AI agent makers promise privacy, ask us to trust them: Dots vs Muse

#What happened

On October 10, 2026, The Verge published a piece asking whether AI agent makers' privacy promises will hold up. At OpenAI DevDay 2026, CEO Sam Altman told the audience OpenAI wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI." OpenAI spent the day taking veiled shots at Meta's Muse, its primary competitor, for failing to keep users' data safe. Muse itself had launched a couple of months earlier as a supposedly safer alternative to its predecessor OpenClaw, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg promising it was "built from the ground up for privacy and security."

#Why it matters

The Verge frames this as an age when companies hoard customer data and cyberattacks are common, and AI labs are competing to convince users their agent is the trustworthy one. Both OpenAI and Meta are now pitching privacy as the differentiator for always-on AI agents, after each side attacked the other's record.

#Sources

Original source: The Verge. Read more: https://scoopfeeds.com/article/35cd71be-dc6d-5d4b-bd83-f2b51555ea66

Verified October 10, 2026.