UK ICO: ten AI giants commit to tighter personal data handling

Britain's ICO said Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Cohere, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and Stability AI have made changes or committed to improve how they handle personal data in AI training. The regulator is now scrutinising autonomous AI agents and opened a six-week call for evidence closing November 20.

• Ten AI developers pledged clearer explanations of how personal data trains their models
• ICO paused engagement with xAI amid a separate investigation into its Grok chatbot
• Regulator contacted OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and the AI Security Institute over agents bypassing safeguards
• Call for evidence on agentic AI runs six weeks and closes on November 20