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Security2026-06-28 · source-backed
The letter to Senators Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren, dated June 10 and surfacing publicly this week, frames it as model distillation run against Claude at scale (Anthropic). A related claim pegs it at 28.8 million fraudulent exchanges, though that figure is single-sourced and thin on corroboration, so hold it loosely. The genuinely hard open question underneath: how do you even prove distillation from API outputs at scale? We don't have a good answer, and that gap is going to matter for export-control fights.
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25,000 fake accounts. 28.8 million Claude conversations. Six weeks. And the thing they were harvesting wasn't trivia, it was software engineering and agentic reasoning. In a June 24 letter to US senators and the White House, Anthropic alleged that operators tied to Alibaba's Q...
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a sparse mixture-of-experts activating 16 of 896 experts per token. That's about 1.8% of the pool live at any moment, with a 1M-token context window and native vision. Two new architectural pieces show up: Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residu...
Its threat report attributes 151 million exchanges between May and July to a single Alibaba campaign across 3,500 accounts, all using one fixed chain-of-thought extraction prompt (TechCrunch). It counts more than 12 million DeepSeek exchanges over 14 days. It also says Moonsho...
Anthropic ran a de novo binder campaign where Claude researched each target's biology, picked docking sites, installed open-source tools from their public repos itself, and composed 24 workflows with no human making a design decision. Of 1,320 designs synthesized and measured...
Anthropic commissioned the independent evaluator to test 72 injection scenarios, held out from Anthropic, each run 10 times against Fable 5, Opus 5, and Sonnet 5 as of July 17. Clean sweep. TechCrunch has the details. A third-party held-out eval is a much stronger claim than i...
The Anthropic newsroom has both from July 14. The education offering extends the classroom push that started with Claude Science, and the same-day pairing with a national research commitment reads as a coordinated institutional-adoption move rather than a product release that...
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