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Morning Edition · Thursday, August 20, 2026Published at 2:25 AM EDT · New York
OpenAI Kept Zero Data Retention and Previewed Safety Monitoring That Never Reads Customer Text
Private Safety Processing is designed to emit a narrow safety signal across related interactions while content stays encrypted or on customer infrastructure, with a technical white paper promised for September.
OpenAI reaffirmed that eligible application programming interface (API) customers keep Zero Data Retention, meaning prompts and responses are not stored after a request is processed and staff cannot review them, and previewed a system calle…
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