UK ICO Secures Data Protection Commitments From OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Seven Other AI Developers

The UK data protection regulator, the ICO, says ten of the largest AI developers, including OpenAI , Google , and Microsoft , have changed how they handle personal data or committed to doing so after it examined their compliance with UK data protection law. The ICO announced the outcome on Thursday, October 8, and said its next focus is autonomous AI agents. The ten companies named by the regulator are Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Cohere, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Stability AI.