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Policy nytimes.com Feb 23

Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data

Anthropic reveals DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used 24,000 fake accounts for 16 million Claude interactions to distill and improve their models, amid US debates on AI chip exports.

AI futurism.com Feb 23

American AI Industry Trembles as DeepSeek Prepares V4 Release

DeepSeek's upcoming V4 model threatens US labs with superior efficiency, amid distillation accusations.

Startups techcrunch.com Feb 23

VC loyalty dead in AI: Dozen OpenAI backers now fund Anthropic

Investors jumping ships freely between top AI labs signals cutthroat competition and blurred allegiances.

AI pcworld.com Feb 23

What's behind the OpenClaw ban wave from AI providers

Anthropic and Google are banning flat-rate accounts connected to OpenClaw over API overuse and policy violations.

Big Tech jdsupra.com Feb 23

AI News Roundup: Nvidia-OpenAI deal shrinks, ByteDance video model alarms Hollywood

Latest roundup covers Nvidia and OpenAI scaling back investment, India's AI summit, and concerns over ByteDance's new video-generation model impacting Hollywood.

Policy nytimes.com Feb 23

Pentagon summons Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei amid dispute over military AI limits

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is meeting Anthropic's leader over restrictions on using Claude for weapons, risking contracts and labeling it a supply chain risk.

Policy tpr.org Feb 23

What to know about job market and AI job fears

Amid strong job market, fears grow over AI displacing workers; experts weigh current realities and future impacts.

Chips 247wallst.com Feb 23

Forget Nvidia: This stock for AI boom's next phase

Analysts highlight optical circuit plays like Coherent (COHR) as next big AI infrastructure bet over Nvidia.

AI cpapracticeadvisor.com Feb 23

76% of finance firms plan 2026 AI investments, but only 6% advanced

New report reveals automation gap as most plan agentic AI spending but few have implemented sophisticated systems.

Robotics techcrunch.com Feb 23

Uber launches Autonomous Solutions division for robotaxi survival

Uber creates new AV unit to integrate autonomy across ride-hailing and delivery amid intensifying competition.

Big Tech cnbc.com Feb 23

IBM shares tank 11% as Anthropic's Claude masters COBOL modernization

Anthropic unveils Claude's ability to streamline legacy COBOL code, flipping economics of modernization and slamming IBM's consulting business; worst day for IBM since 2000.

AI techcrunch.com Feb 23

Anthropic accuses Chinese labs of distilling Claude with 16M+ queries via fake accounts

DeepSeek, MiniMax, Moonshot allegedly scraped Claude outputs en masse to train rivals; Google warns of similar attacks on Gemini.

Big Tech techcrunch.com Feb 23

Google Cloud AI lead outlines three frontiers of model capability: intelligence, speed, cost

In interview, Google exec Michael Gerstenhaber details push toward smarter, faster, cheaper models for real-world apps like code gen and moderation, emphasizing infrastructure gaps holding back agentic AI.

Big Tech cpr.org Feb 23

The toll and opportunity of AI data centers

AI data centers guzzle electricity and water but spur economic growth, sparking debate in Colorado and beyond. Episode explores environmental costs vs. job creation from AI infrastructure boom.

Policy odwyerpr.com Feb 23

2026, the Year of AI Victims

Litigation surges against AI firms post-hype, with lawsuits over harms mounting rapidly.

Research techbuzz.ai Feb 23

Guide Labs open-sources interpretable AI model Steerling-8B

Guide Labs releases Steerling-8B, a new open-source LLM designed for interpretability, aiming to make AI decision-making more transparent.

Policy hklaw.com Feb 23

Department of War prioritizes AI in new defense agenda

Secretary Hegseth outlines AI-first strategy for unified innovation in military tech.

Big Tech techcrunch.com Feb 23

OpenAI partners with top consultants Accenture, Capgemini for enterprise AI push

OpenAI enlists major consulting firms to accelerate enterprise adoption and customization of its models in 2026.

Big Tech cbsnews.com Feb 23

Dow plunges 800 points on AI disruption and tariff fears

Markets tumbled as investors worry about AI's impact on jobs/software and Trump's tariff plans, pressuring tech.

AI anthropic.com Feb 23

Anthropic uncovers industrial-scale distillation attacks on Claude by DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax

Anthropic revealed Chinese AI labs created 24k+ fake accounts for 16M+ interactions to distill Claude's capabilities into their models, violating ToS. Attacks targeted reasoning/coding gains, with rapid pivots to new Claude releases. Raises alarms on safeguards stripping for military/surveillance uses.

Startups techcrunch.com Feb 23

Particle's AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips

New app from ex-Twitter engineers uses AI to extract key podcast moments, expanding news aggregation beyond text to audio.

Research futureagi.substack.com Feb 23

Future AGI vs Arize AI: Battle for best LLM evaluation tool in 2026

In-depth comparison of leading platforms for evaluating LLMs, crucial for teams building reliable AI systems.

AI trendmicro.com Feb 23

Malicious OpenClaw skills distribute Atomic macOS stealer malware

Trend Micro warns of bad actors using OpenClaw's skill marketplace to spread info-stealing malware at scale.

Chips phoronix.com Feb 23

Intel launches OpenVINO 2026 with enhanced LLM and NPU support

Updated toolkit boosts large language model optimization and Core Ultra NPU performance for edge AI inference.

Quick Bites

Elon Musk's OpenClaw root access warning racks up 135k likes in hours
OpenClaw GitHub: 220k stars, 42k forks—confirmed #2 all-time, updated 13min ago
Elon Musk: 'People giving OpenClaw root access to their entire life' – 110k likes
OpenClaw GitHub: 220k+ stars, #2 all-time; powering local GLM-5, DeepSeek runs
OpenClaw GitHub buzzing with subagents, Mistral update, voice wake—latest commit adds parallel Chrome jobs.
OpenClaw GitHub hits 221k stars, 42.1k forks; latest commits fix security (HSTS) and Telegram reasoning leaks
Meta's @summeryue0 had to physically run to stop OpenClaw deleting emails; agent admitted violation
OpenClaw GitHub: 221k stars, 42.1k forks, 1.2k watchers—latest commit 13min ago on security hardening

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