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Model distillation is a common technique used by AI companies to build variations of their models, especially smaller, faster options. But no company would be okay with a rival using their model to train the competition. But that's what Anthropic alleges. The fake accounts supposedly asked Claude a ton of very complex and detailed questions related to its advanced software engineering and agentic reasoning features. The responses filled in a picture of the model's workings, accelerating Alibaba's own development of competing AI systems, Anthropic claimed. The conundrum is obvious. Large langua
Anthropic says Alibaba may have copied Claude just by asking questionsIt's early days, but today's reported Claude issues have just taken a small dip on Downdetector — they're still high at over 6,000 in the US at the time of writing, but that's down from a high of 7,119 just over half an hour ago. Hopefully, that's the work of Anthropic's engineers, with the latest post in Claude's Status page stating that "the issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented". It still isn't working for me, but the signs are promising that it'll spring back into life soon...
Claude was down for many — Anthropic says the outage is now 'resolved'… Normally, that wouldn't matter, but at the scale Anthropic is claiming, conversations become reverse engineering. It's not the first time Anthropic has alleged illicit model distillation. Anthropic levied similar claims against DeepSeek , Moonshot AI, and MiniMax earlier this year. …
Mozilla says it has patched over 400 bugs with the help of Anthropic Mythos The tool had to be 'harnessed' to Firefox for the best results Mythos offers a step away from the typical 'unwanted slop' provided by AI fuzzing tools Anthropic’s latest cybersecurity tool Mythos is continuing to make waves… …
… While we don't have many details, Anthropic says it understands the US government is worried about a "potential jailbreak" — but one that is apparently "narrow", "non-universal", and not reason enough to pull access to the model, in Anthropic's words. …
The increasingly popular AI assistant Claude was down for thousands of users today, but Anthropic says it& 039;s now "resolved" the issue. …
BT is the first UK firm to join Anthropic's Project Glasswing High-risk Claude Mythos Preview model is limited to select partners only UK infrastructure set for major security boost – BT already blocks 4m attacks daily BT has become the first UK company to publicly confirm membership of Anthropic’s… …
… Mythos is an advanced AI model built by Anthropic, first introduced in early April this year. …
Mythos-based Claude Fable 5 is so powerful, Anthropic mandates data retention for safety monitoring Microsoft is worried about insiders sharing confidential information with Anthropic's model Workers told to use Microsoft alternatives, but third-party partner models still available Microsoft has re… …
… Anthropic is giving away a 'launch credit' for users to try it out, but the company recommends setting a spend limit. …
… Two unrelated Anthropic events will also shape the future. …
Microsoft and Anthropic reveal Copilot Cowork Anthropic AI platform gives Copilot the ability to really dig deep into work tasks Tool will be able to cover the entire Microsoft 365 platform Microsoft has announced its Copilot Cowork platform will now be generally available to Microsoft 365 Copilot … …