{"slug": "new-anthropic-safety-system-will-let-customers-keep-control-of-data", "title": "New Anthropic safety system will let customers keep control of data", "summary": "Anthropic is preparing to roll out a new safety system for its top models that will let enterprise customers keep data on their own infrastructure, with safeguards and monitoring provided by Anthropic's automated systems, according to Technical Staff Member Sholto Douglas. The system, confirmed by Claude Code head Boris Cherney to arrive in autumn, follows similar technology detailed by OpenAI and involves a 30-day retention policy that is likely to remain.", "body_md": "[AI](/tag/ai/)\n\nAnthropic is preparing to roll out a new safety system for its top models that could see data retention responsibilities handed back to enterprise customers, but a 30-day retention policy is likely to remain.\n\nTechnical Staff Member Sholto Douglas appeared to [ confirm reports](https://x.com/_sholtodouglas/status/2090556617922335027?s=43&t=vaRhIzWGkIN04zJFkESh-g&ref=thestack.technology) on Thursday, posting on X that Anthropic would let safeguarding occur on customer infrastructure, the day after\n\n[.](https://www.thestack.technology/openai-zero-data-retention-frontier-models/)\n\n__OpenAI detailed similar technology__He said Anthropic had been working with more than 100 customers on a system where “Your data sits in infrastructure you own and control, and safeguards/monitoring is done via automated systems we provide to you.”\n\nAnthropic and OpenAI believe the “responsible” way to provide top AI models involves monitoring output across requests “because anomalous activity is much easier to detect over hours or days of behaviour,” he added. “It looks like we've arrived at both the same conclusion - and the same solution.”\n\nWhile Anthropic has not made an official announcement about the new system, Claude Code head Boris Cherney also [ posted on X](https://x.com/bcherny/status/2090537902912815536?s=43&t=vaRhIzWGkIN04zJFkESh-g&ref=thestack.technology) to say it would arrive in the autumn.\n\n**Zero data retention?**\n\n## Get the full story: Subscribe for free\n\nJoin peers managing over $100 billion in annual IT spend and subscribe to unlock full access to The Stack’s analysis and events.\n\n[Subscribe now](https://www.thestack.technology/membership/)\n\nAlready a member? [Sign in](https://www.thestack.technology/signin/)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-anthropic-safety-system-will-let-customers-keep-control-of-data", "canonical_source": "https://www.thestack.technology/new-anthropic-safety-system-will-let-customers-keep-control-of-data/", "published_at": "2026-08-21 09:11:26+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-21 09:42:59.749741+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Sholto Douglas", "OpenAI", "Boris Cherney", "Claude Code"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-anthropic-safety-system-will-let-customers-keep-control-of-data", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-anthropic-safety-system-will-let-customers-keep-control-of-data.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-anthropic-safety-system-will-let-customers-keep-control-of-data.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-anthropic-safety-system-will-let-customers-keep-control-of-data.jsonld"}}