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What is confidential computing (secure enclaves / TEEs), and when is it used for AI?

Encryption covers data at rest and in transit, but the moment you compute on it the data sits in cleartext in memory. Confidential computing closes that gap. The signal is the TEE concept, attestation, and the AI workloads that actually need it.

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Encryption covers data at rest and in transit, but the moment you compute on it the data sits in cleartext in memory. Confidential computing closes that gap. The signal is the TEE concept, attestation, and the AI workloads that actually need it.

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