# OpenAI Offers Zero Data Retention on Frontier Models, and Anthropic Reverses Its Own Retention Rule

OpenAI previewed Private Safety Processing, which searches for multi-session abuse without exposing prompts to staff, after months of public criticism from Palantir's chief executive over how labs treat enterprise data.

- Published: 2026-08-22T06:18:28.650Z
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- Sources: [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/offering-zero-data-retention-for-frontier-models/), [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/openai-seeks-to-one-up-anthropic-with-new-customer-privacy-protections/), [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/03/palantir-karp-open-ai-anthropic-open-weight.html), [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news)

OpenAI published an update on August 19 extending zero data retention to its frontier models for eligible application programming interface (API) customers, meaning prompts and responses are not kept after a request is processed and are not…

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