Anthropic’s been eyeing confidential AI. It just made its move with another acquihire.

Anthropic’s done it again. On Tuesday, Opaque Systems announced a new agreement with Anthropic that “carries Opaque’s work forward.” Vague wording aside, the agreement marks another acquihire for Anthropic, with the AI juggernaut licensing Opaque’s technology and bringing on board some (but not all) of its employees, including Opaque CEO Aaron Fulkerson and CTO Rishabh Poddar, reports The Information. The agreement gives Anthropic access to expertise in confidential AI, the “real-world technology” and category Opaque claims it helped define after starting as a research project at UC Berkeley’s RISELab 10 years ago with the goal to “enabl[e] organizations to use their most sensitive data while keeping it private, even while it’s being used.” For now, both Anthropic and Opaque are pretty mum on the details of the deal, leaving one…

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