Anthropic acquires confidential-computing startup Opaque Systems
Anthropic announced it is acquiring Opaque Systems, a startup that grew out of a UC Berkeley RISELab research project and built 'confidential computing' technology that lets an AI system process sensitive data while that data stays protected by the underlying hardware. Deal terms weren't disclosed, but Opaque's team is joining Anthropic, and the company had raised a $24 million Series B at a $300 million valuation this year, counting Anthropic itself, ServiceNow and Accenture among its customers. In recent years Opaque had shifted from simply protecting data to what it called 'verifiable AI,' techniques that cryptographically prove what an AI system ran, where it ran, and under what policies, instead of just promising trust. The move ties confidential computing, technology best known from banking and government systems, to the question of whether AI agents can be trusted with access to sensitive data. For a business considering giving an AI agent access to confidential customer files, the acquisition shows that even major AI providers are now investing in infrastructure that proves, rather than simply asserts, how data gets used.
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