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EpisodeFriday, August 21, 2026 · 21 min
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Anthropic Quietly Ends Zero Data Retention for Its Top Models

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Anthropic Quietly Ends Zero Data Retention for Its Top Models
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Anthropic quietly started retaining prompts and outputs from its top models, OpenAI is racing to sell zero retention as the differentiator, and Infrahub just made merges dramatically faster while quietly deleting the CLI command some of your cron jobs might depend on.

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HOST A

Welcome to Amaze Networks for Friday, August twenty-first. Quick confession before anything else: we didn't run Wednesday or Thursday. Our own login session expired and nobody caught it until this morning.

HOST B

Which is mortifying, and also, weirdly, the perfect setup for today's lead story. Because today we're talking about what happens when the thing you trusted to just quietly keep working stops telling you the truth about what it's doing with your data.

HOST A

Oh, that's a stretch and I love it. Let's get into it.

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