Distillation Attacks on Claude Are Real. So Is the Lobbying Campaign.
Anthropic named DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax in a distillation report timed to the export control debate.
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Zuckerberg overruled 18 experts on beauty filters and called child safety 'paternalistic.' The landmark trial sidesteps Section 230 with product liability law.
Pentagon preparing to label Anthropic a supply chain risk over Claude military restrictions, threatening to cut ties after months of failed negotiations.
Anthropic paid $8M+ for Super Bowl ads mocking ChatGPT's ad model. Sam Altman's 400-word rant shows exactly which nerve it hit.
Pactum CEO Kaspar Korjus, whose AI agents negotiate for Walmart and Rolls-Royce, warns Moltbook has created autonomous agents that can't be shut down.
France raided X's Paris offices with Europol on Tuesday and summoned Musk for questioning. Hours later, the UK and EU opened separate probes into Grok deepfakes.
Tim Cook and Andy Jassy attended a Melania doc screening while Alex Pretti was shot. 500+ tech workers demand action. Most CEOs stay silent.
Anthropic CEO compares Nvidia H200 sales to China to nuclear proliferation. DeepMind's Hassabis says Chinese labs trail by six months.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp, a philosophy PhD, told Davos that AI will destroy humanities jobs while elevating vocational workers. His conclusion: mass immigration becomes economically unnecessary. The self-described progressive runs a company that sells surveillance tools to ICE.
Trump's Greenland tariffs have Europe openly discussing its "trade bazooka," a weapon that could ban U.S. tech firms from 450 million consumers overnight. For Silicon Valley, this isn't about bourbon and motorcycles anymore.
The IMF just raised its global growth forecast to 3.3%. It also explained why that number depends almost entirely on AI investment continuing, and what happens if the productivity gains never arrive. The fund's own model shows the upgrade could vanish twice over.
The Trump administration wants PJM to hold an emergency power auction where only data center operators can bid. Fifteen-year contracts, no exit clauses. The grid operator wasn't invited to the announcement.
Grok produced 6,700 sexualized images per hour while other deepfake sites averaged 79. California's AG opened an investigation the same day Musk claimed he saw "literally zero" illegal content. xAI's fix: charge $8 to keep using the feature.
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