Guide Labs Open-Sources Steerling-8B, an LLM That Shows Its Work
YC-backed startup Guide Labs releases Steerling-8B under Apache 2.0 - an 8.4B parameter model with a built-in concept module that traces every output token back to its training data.
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Anthropic Says DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax Ran 24,000 Fake Accounts to Steal Claude's Capabilities
Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI labs of industrial-scale distillation attacks using 24,000 fraudulent accounts and 16 million exchanges with Claude. MiniMax ran the largest operation at 13 million exchanges. None of the three companies have responded.
OpenAI Targets $600 Billion in Compute Spend by 2030 as It Eyes a $1 Trillion IPO
OpenAI projects $600 billion in compute spending through 2030, with NVIDIA investing $30 billion and a potential $1 trillion IPO. But inference costs quadrupled in 2025 and the Stargate project faces internal disputes.
IBM Shares Plunge 11% as Anthropic's Claude Code Threatens Its COBOL Empire
IBM suffers its worst single-day drop in years after Anthropic announces Claude Code can automate COBOL modernization. Combined with Trump's 15% global tariff and DOGE contract cancellations, IBM is down 26% in February.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Is the Best Model You Can't Use: 99-Hour Lockouts, Phantom Quota Drain, and Broken Tool Calling
Four days after launch, Gemini 3.1 Pro's benchmark-topping performance is overshadowed by 90-hour lockouts for paying subscribers, quota draining while idle, and tool-calling bugs that break LangChain, n8n, and RooCode. Developers are switching to Claude.
Pentagon Summons Anthropic CEO, Threatens 'Supply Chain Risk' Designation Over Military AI Limits
Defense Secretary Hegseth gives Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei an ultimatum: lift Claude's military restrictions or face blacklisting from the entire US defense supply chain.
They Trained on Everything: How AI Labs Consumed the World's Books and Why They're Coming for the Rest
From pirated libraries to destroyed books to ancient manuscripts, AI companies have consumed millions of copyrighted works and are now approaching the limits of available human text. Here is what they used, what they stole, and what they are looking for next.
Alibaba Drops Qwen3.5: 397B Parameters, 17B Active, and It Trades Blows with GPT-5.2
Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, an open-weight mixture-of-experts model with native multimodal support and a hybrid attention architecture that runs 8x faster than its predecessor. Apache 2.0 licensed.
Microsoft Copilot Spent Two Weeks Reading Confidential Emails It Was Supposed to Ignore
A Microsoft 365 Copilot bug (CW1226324) let the AI summarize emails with sensitivity labels in Sent Items and Drafts, bypassing DLP policies for two weeks. The NHS was affected. It's the second time in eight months.
OpenAI Closes In on $100 Billion Mega-Round at $850 Billion Valuation
OpenAI is finalizing the largest private funding round in history, with Amazon, SoftBank, Nvidia, and Microsoft committing over $100 billion at a valuation exceeding $850 billion.
Google Bans $250/Month AI Subscribers for Connecting OpenClaw - No Warning, No Refund
Google disabled Antigravity accounts for paying subscribers who linked OpenClaw via OAuth, citing service degradation. Creator Peter Steinberger calls it draconian.
Cohere's Tiny Aya Fits 70 Languages Into 3.35 Billion Parameters and Runs on a Phone
Cohere Labs releases Tiny Aya, a 3.35B open-weight multilingual model that beats Gemma 3 4B in 46 of 61 languages on translation and runs at 32 tokens/sec on an iPhone.
