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Signal's creator ships a verifiably private assistant

development2026-01-14

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Moxie Marlinspike launched Confer, an open-source AI assistant that is cryptographically verifiable as unreadable by anyone but its user.

Reporting date: 2026-01-14 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 14, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Moxie Marlinspike describes the last days of software development

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Signal's creator ships a verifiably private assistant
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-01-14
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-14-confer-verifiable-privacy
Claim: Moxie Marlinspike launched Confer, an open-source AI assistant that is cryptographically verifiable as unreadable by anyone but its user.
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- Welcome to January 14, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-14-2026
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