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OPAQUE CEO since October 2023, previously co-founder of MindTouch and a new-business leader at ServiceNow.
Anthropic is licensing Opaque Systems' technology and hiring some staff, including its CEO and CTO, The Information reported. Neither company has detailed the terms, including what they mean for Opaque's open-source tooling.
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Anthropic took a license and some engineers from Opaque Systems, a startup valued near $300 million, cryptobriefing.com reported. Opaque's own post confirms an agreement but not those terms, and no price was disclosed.
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The Linux Foundation is taking over an open spec for hardware-signed agent runtime evidence. The producing side now has code and a spec; nobody has yet named who accepts the record.
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OPAQUE's new specification turns licence terms into machine-readable policy that a key broker checks before every release of a decryption key. Whether that binds anything depends on parts the preview leaves open.
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The Linux Foundation now hosts TRACE, a format for evidence of what an AI agent actually did. The package that produces those records still ships as a developer preview.
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