Introducing a business productivity suite that puts your privacy first | Proton

Introducing a business productivity suite that puts your privacy first | Proton

Introducing Proton Workspace: An encrypted suite for team collaboration
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When Proton was created in Switzerland in 2014, our mission was clear: restore digital agency to people who had lost control of their data to Big Tech. Over the past decade, more than 100 million people worldwide have trusted Proton to reclaim their privacy.

But we soon saw that this challenge extended far beyond individuals. In the same 10 years, over 100,000 businesses — from agile start ups to global enterprises — adopted Proton’s secure services. Today our encrypted email, password manager, VPN, cloud storage, and AI assistant(new window) are used by organizations ranging from small teams and startups to United Nations agencies and Fortune 500 companies.

Recently, demand for Proton’s business solutions has surged, and companies have shifted from using individual services to adopting our entire, ever-growing ecosystem. That’s why, today, we’re launching Proton Workspace: a fully integrated suite that brings all of Proton’s privacy-first services into a single offering.

With Proton Workspace, businesses can finally break free from Big Tech dependency and take back complete control of their data.
What’s new in Proton Workspace

Proton Workspace combines Proton’s longstanding products with our new security-first services, including Proton Meet, Sheets, Docs and Lumo AI, across two new plans:
Workspace Standard

Everything you need for a secure collaborative workspace: Proton Mail, Calendar (now with appointment scheduling), Drive, Docs and Sheets, Meet, VPN, and Pass.

Annual price: $12.99 / €12.99 | Monthly price: $14.99 / €14.99
Get Workspace Standard
Workspace Premium

Includes all Workspace Standard features plus expanded storage, email data retention policies, higher participant limits per Meet call, and Lumo, our privacy‑first AI assistant.

Annual price: $19.99 / €19.99 | Monthly price: $24.99 / €24.99
Get Workspace Premium

Existing Proton Business Suite customers benefit from a free upgrade to Workspace Standard, including the addition of Proton Meet, at no additional cost.
Why Proton Workspace

With Proton Workspace, businesses finally have a trustworthy alternative to Big Tech that keeps sensitive business data secure.
Private (and encrypted) by default

Unlike Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, which were created by companies that harvest user data as their business model, Proton has always-on end-to-end encryption and zero‑access encryption, meaning even we do not have access to your data.
Safer by design

Proton’s encryption makes our ecosystem safer by design. Because we do not have access to your encrypted data, an attacker that compromises Proton cannot access it either. Proton Workspace also includes advanced security tools to protect your organization from compromise, such as Proton Sentinel, which is successfully protecting some of the most highly targeted users in the world.
Open source and audited

Because our code is open source, anyone can independently verify that our encryption works as advertised and that there are no backdoors. All Proton apps are regularly independently audited and security tested.
Sovereign and shielded from US surveillance

Based in Europe, Proton ensures your data is protected by some of the world’s strongest privacy laws. Because Proton isn’t a US‑based company, we can’t be compelled by laws such as the US CLOUD Act(new window) to hand over your data to the US government or terminate your services. It is impossible for Proton to independently decrypt your data and share it with any third parties, including governments. Proton also operates our own infrastructure which is independent from Big Tech.
Protected from AI training

Proton’s encryption ensures we do not and cannot use your data for AI training, eliminating any chance that your private data gets publicly leaked through an AI output. Proton’s Lumo AI(new window) also uses zero-access encryption, meaning we do not have access to your saved chats, ensuring they’re never leaked or repurposed for AI model training. With Proton, there is no risk that your confidential business data becomes business intelligence for Big Tech, which is used later to compete with you.
Built with compliance in mind

Our advanced encryption shields your business from accidental leaks, data breaches, and state surveillance, while also helping you meet strict regulations. Proton Workspace simplifies compliance with regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA. It is also ISO 27001 and SOC2 certified, providing an additional layer of assurance for security conscious teams and clients.
Security beyond collaboration

Unlike other productivity suites, both Workspace Standard and Workspace Premium include Proton Pass and Proton VPN — two essential cybersecurity tools for your business. These tools feature breach detection alerts to notify you if a third-party tools you use suffers a data breach, and Dark Web Monitoring which automatically warns you if your data is being sold on the dark web.
Better value for money

Even though Proton Workspace includes additional valuable cybersecurity tools, it is less expensive than comparable Big Tech bundles and far cheaper than purchasing each service individually. Proton puts people ahead of profits, meaning we don’t do annual price increases. For over a decade, we have never raised prices on existing customers.
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Make the switch to a privacy-first workspace

The need for privacy and security-centric business solutions is becoming increasingly urgent as geopolitical tensions rise and businesses face increasing resilience, surveillance, and cybersecurity risks.

Whether it’s your customers’ credit cards, your proprietary knowledge, or the trust of your partners, your most valuable assets are information. That’s why data breaches(new window) and ransomware attacks are at record highs, impacting both small and large organizations, and costing over $4 million per incident on average.

When you choose Workspace Standard or Workspace Premium, you’re not just protecting your business and saving money, you’re also supporting better independent technology that’s creating a more ethical and responsible digital ecosystem.

Proton has long stood for privacy, freedom, and democracy, principles which are safeguarded by our primary shareholder, the nonprofit Proton Foundation based in Switzerland. Our mission will continue to be providing the trusted, neutral foundation necessary to protect data in an unsecure world.

Switching to Proton Workspace is simple and seamless. Get in touch with our business team to get started today.



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Andy Yen

Andy is the founder and CEO of Proton. He is a long-time advocate for privacy rights and has spoken at TED, Web Summit, and the United Nations about online privacy issues. Previously, Andy was a research scientist at CERN and has a PhD in particle physics from Harvard University.

Amazon CEO defends AI spend, pokes at rivals

  Amazon CEO defends AI spend, pokes at rivals

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The annual letter to Amazon shareholders was 5,000 words, but it could be summed up in seven: We’re gonna keep throwing money at AI. Yesterday, CEO Andy Jassy doubled down on the company’s plan to spend more than any other tech company this year on AI, data centers, chips, robotics, and satellites. “We’re not investing approximately $200 billion in capex in 2026 on a hunch,” Jassy wrote. The letter said: Amazon expects to start making its money back next year on multibillion-dollar deals with customers like OpenAI. Revenue from AI services and chips is booming, with customers wanting “better price-performance” for chips—a subtle jab at Nvidia. Jassy warned that Amazon is OK with being strapped for cash flow in the short term because it anticipates a major payoff from AI, which Jassy called a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” “We’re not going to be conservative in how we play this,” he said. Where the capex will go: Reiterating Amazon’s previously announced plans, Jassy said its hefty AI investing will support efforts to further robotize its warehouses, grow its soon-to-launch network of Starlink-competing satellites, and expand rural and drone-aided delivery. Zoom out: Shares of Amazon had been down this year as investors questioned its $200 billion capex plan, but yesterday’s remarks putted the stock into the green.

A secure and private suite for team collaboration

 

A secure and private suite for team collaboration

Businesses need a private alternative to Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 that uses the familiar tools they rely on every day. That’s why we launched Proton Workspace: a fully integrated suite for teams to communicate, collaborate, and grow securely, protected by strong encryption and Swiss privacy laws. It brings together Proton Mail, Calendar (now with appointment scheduling), Drive, Docs, Sheets, Pass, VPN, Lumo AI assistant, and Proton Meet.

Explore Workspace with a free trial

Anthropic leaks part of Claude Code’s internal source code

Anthropic leaks part of Claude Code’s internal source code
Published Tue, Mar 31 20264:56 PM EDT

Ashley Capoot@/in/ashley-capoot/
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Anthropic accidentally leaked part of the internal source code for its coding assistant Claude Code, according to a spokesperson.
The leak could help give software developers, and Anthropic’s competitors, insight into how it built the viral coding tool.
“No sensitive customer data or credentials were involved or exposed,” the spokesperson said.


The Anthropic logo appears on a smartphone screen with multiple Claude AI logos in the background. Following the release of Claude Opus 4.6 on February 5, Anthropic continues to challenge its main competitors in the generative AI market in Creteil, France, on February 6, 2026.
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Anthropic leaked part of the internal source code for its popular artificial intelligence coding assistant, Claude Code, the company confirmed on Tuesday.

“No sensitive customer data or credentials were involved or exposed,” an Anthropic spokesperson said in a statement. “This was a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach. We’re rolling out measures to prevent this from happening again.”


A source code leak is a blow to the startup, as it could help give software developers, and Anthropic’s competitors, insight into how it built its viral coding tool. A post on X with a link to Anthropic’s code has amassed more than 21 million views since it was shared at 4:23 a.m. ET on Tuesday.

The leak also marks Anthropic’s second major data blunder in under a week. Descriptions of Anthropic’s upcoming AI model and other documents were recently discovered in a publicly accessible data cache, according to a report from Fortune on Thursday.


Anthropic was founded by a group of former OpenAI executives and researchers in 2021, and it’s best known for developing a family of AI models called Claude.

The company released Claude Code to the general public in May, and it helps software developers build features, fix bugs and automate tasks.

Claude Code has seen massive adoption over the last year, and its run-rate revenue had swelled to more than $2.5 billion as of February.


The tool’s success has prompted companies like OpenAI, Google and xAI to pour resources into developing competing offerings.

 

Nike just can’t do it in China

Nick Iluzada

Nike’s turnaround has hit a huge wall in China—and that’s anything but great for shareholders. The company’s earnings call this week revealed that sales in China fell for the seventh consecutive quarter, and that they’re expected to remain weak for the rest of the year. The company’s shares crashed by ~15% in response to its bleak outlook in China, even though Nike’s fiscal Q3 earnings and revenue beat expectations. The recovery remains in progress CEO Elliott Hill was brought on board in 2024 to return Nike to its glory days by refocusing the brand on sports. Some progress has been made, as revenue in North America grew for a second straight quarter. But overseas problems had Hill venting in an all-hands meeting that “I’m so tired, and I know you are too, of talking about fixing this business,” according to Bloomberg: In China, consumers are pulling back as they look for bargains during tough economic times—but other foreign brands aren’t being hit as hard as Nike. Nike CFO Matthew Friend blamed the conflict in the Middle East as a disruptor to shopping patterns in the region, as well as in Europe and Africa. Nike also cited US tariffs eating into the company’s bottom line. Looking ahead…the company is expecting continued growth in North America and plans to offer longer-term guidance to investors this fall.

Privacy watch and updates

 

Privacy watch

News and updates about online privacy

• Google, Apple, and Meta shared data from more than 3.5 million user accounts with US authorities over the past decade through routine requests alone, a 770% increase since reporting began. When FISA disclosures are included, the total rises to roughly 6.7 million. See the details of the investigation.
• Another Proton study found that nearly one in four small and medium businesses suffered a cyberattack in the past 12 months. Cyber risk is shaped by human error, inconsistent use of security tools, and giving more data to cloud and AI platforms. See our recommendations for businesses.
• Apple’s latest iPhone update in the UK introduces age verification at the operating-system level, requiring some people to prove they are over 18 with a credit card or government-issued ID. The move comes after pressure from regulators under the Online Safety Act to do more to protect children online. What it means beyond the UK.
• The Trump administration is poised to renew a surveillance law known as Section 702 that gives the government the power to spy on people without a warrant. The law is especially controversial in the US because it can be used to target American citizens, who would normally be protected from warrantless surveillance by the Constitution.
• Instagram is dropping end-to-end encryption for chats, despite years of Meta presenting it as the future of private messaging. Uncertainty remains around what happens to currently encrypted chats.
• Google has settled a $68 million lawsuit alleging that Google Assistant improperly recorded private conversations after false activations and used that data for targeted ads. It is one more entry in the long line of privacy cases Google has chosen to settle rather than fight in court and risk admitting wrongdoing.

Can countries replace SWIFT?

Can countries replace SWIFT? Evidence from Russia suggests not easily

The Conversation – Articles (CA) · a day ago
by Mesbah Sharaf, Professor of Economics, University of Alberta


When Russian banks were cut off from the SWIFT messaging system in 2022, the move was seen as one of the strongest financial sanctions imposed after the invasion of Ukraine.

The measure, taken by the European Union and its allies, targeted major Russian banks and aimed to disrupt the country’s ability to conduct international transactions.

SWIFT — the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication — allows more than 11,000 financial institutions in over 200 countries to send secure, standardized payment instructions to one another. Without it, cross-border transactions become slower, more difficult and more expensive.

But what happens if a country is pushed out of the world’s main financial messaging network? Can it simply build an alternative? Our recent research suggests the answer is no — or at least not nearly as easily as some claims suggest.
Russia’s workaround

Russia had been preparing for the risk of being cut off from global financial infrastructure for years. After earlier sanctions in 2014, it developed its own domestic system, known as the System for Transfer of Financial Messages (SPFS), to reduce its reliance on foreign financial infrastructure and make itself less vulnerable to future sanctions.

While SPFS was built mainly for the Russian market, the Bank of Russia says foreign users can also connect either directly or through a service bureau. This suggests an effort to extend its use beyond Russia, even if its international reach has remained limited.

When Russian banks were cut off from SWIFT in 2022, SPFS was presented as part of that fallback strategy. Other workarounds included capital controls, rules requiring exporters to sell part of their foreign-currency earnings and greater reliance on domestic payments infrastructure such as Mir.

At first glance, the strategy appeared to work. Russian exports remained high in the months after the sanctions, leading some observers to argue that the shock had been contained and that financial workarounds were doing their job. The Financial Times, for example, noted the surprising resilience of the Russian economy.

But our findings point to a more complicated reality.
What the data shows

Using monthly data from March 2020 to February 2024, we examined what happened to two key indicators after Russia’s exclusion from SWIFT: merchandise exports and international reserves.

The results showed a clear split between trade and finance. Export revenues stayed high for a time, but much of that was tied to the global surge in oil prices rather than to the strength of SPFS itself. Once oil prices were taken into account, the apparent export resilience became much weaker.

In other words, Russia benefited from unusually favourable market conditions. High energy prices helped keep export earnings afloat at exactly the moment when the country was facing major financial disruption. That is not the same thing as showing that a domestic payment system had replaced the role SWIFT normally plays in international finance.

The deeper strain showed up in Russia’s international reserves. Reserves are one of the clearest signs of a country’s external financial strength. They support currency stability, underpin investor confidence and provide a buffer against economic shocks.

Russia’s reserves fell sharply and stayed under pressure after the SWIFT exclusion, suggesting the financial damage ran deeper than the export numbers alone might imply.
Alternatives to SWIFT have limits

This helps explain why alternatives like SPFS have limits. A domestic system may help preserve some continuity and allow certain transactions to keep moving inside the country or with a limited group of foreign partners.

But it does not automatically recreate the wider ecosystem that makes SWIFT powerful: global reach, liquidity, institutional trust and the network effects that come from being used almost everywhere.

The more institutions that use a system, the more valuable it becomes. Replicating that scale requires broad international participation and confidence, which are difficult to build quickly.
The future of global payments

Around the world, governments are paying much closer attention to financial sovereignty, sanctions risk and dependence on payment systems they do not control.

Countries such as Russia and China have tried to build alternatives, and debates about payment fragmentation are becoming more common.

In simple terms, payment fragmentation means the global financial system breaking into separate networks that do not fully connect with each other, making cross-border transactions more complex, costly and less predictable.

Yet building a domestic alternative is not the same as reproducing a global network built on decades of legal standards, co-ordination and trust.
Sanctions are still effective

The broader lesson is that payment technologies derive their value not simply from their design, but from who uses them, how widely they are accepted and whether people trust them in practice.

That is why Russia’s experience should be interpreted carefully. It does not demonstrate that countries can easily escape the economic force of sanctions by building local substitutes.

Instead, it shows that while some adjustment is possible — especially when helped by high commodity prices — the advantages of a global network are much harder to replace.

So can countries build alternatives to SWIFT? Yes.

Can they quickly build alternatives with the same reach, trust and financial weight? Russia’s experience shows that while a country may be able to keep some payments moving for a time, that is very different from preserving full financial resilience.

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.