25 Jun 2026
Is A24 Still Cool?
Cool is a slippery thing. One minute you have it, the next minute it’s out your hands like a water balloon. For an older generation, Marty Scorsese epitomized cool. That hasn’t been the case for a while — I’d say sometime after The Wolf of Wall Street and before his third consecutive manicured period drama. When he made a deal a few weeks ago with an AI startup and enthused how he’d use it to…
25 Jun 2026
Anthropic Urges Congress to Crack Down on AI Distillation By Chinese Rivals
Anthropic is calling on Congress to strengthen protections against AI model distillation after claiming that Alibaba-affiliated operators carried out the largest known effort to extract capabilities from its Claude chatbot.
25 Jun 2026
Gemini Computer Use Baked Into Gemini 3.5 Flash: Screen Control Now Pairs With Search and Maps
Google announced Wednesday that computer use — the ability for an AI agent to see a screen, click, type, and navigate software without a human at the keyboard — is now a built-in tool inside Gemini 3.5 Flash, available to developers through the Gemini API and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
25 Jun 2026
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of using 25,000 fake accounts to scrape Claude AI
Anthropic has accused Alibaba of using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract capabilities from its Claude AI models, in what the US AI company described as the largest known attack of its kind against it.
25 Jun 2026
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilities
US artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has accused Chinese e-commerce and technology firm Alibaba of "brazenly" and "illicitly" extracting its Claude AI model's capabilities.
24 Jun 2026
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of campaign to 'brazenly' and 'illicitly' extract AI capabilities
CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei attends a working lunch with G7 leaders, G7 outreach partners and global tech CEOs on innovation and AI, during the G7 Summit on June 17, 2026, in Évian-les-Bains, France. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images News | Getty Images
24 Jun 2026
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of running the largest distillation campaign yet against Claude
Anthropic accused Alibaba’s Qwen lab of using 25,000 fake accounts for nearly 29 million Claude exchanges, the biggest such campaign yet.
24 Jun 2026
Leaked Code Suggests Anthropic Is Preparing to Bring Fable 5 Back
In brief A leaker discovered new strings in Claude Code v2.1.190 suggesting Fable 5 usage will be bundled into weekly subscription limits rather than sold as a separate add-on.
