THE CRUNCH
At OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled Dots, the company's new AI agent, and told the audience OpenAI wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI." The company spent much of the day taking veiled shots at Meta's Muse, its main competitor, over how it handles users' data.
The jabs land awkwardly, because Muse made much the same promise. A couple of months before DevDay, Meta launched Muse as a supposedly safer alternative to its predecessor OpenClaw, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying it was "built from the ground up for privacy and security."
The duelling pledges reflect a broader pitch: with companies hoarding personal data and cyberattacks common, AI labs are trying to convince users their agents can be trusted. Whether either claim holds up in practice is, for now, an open question.