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Google reorganizes AI coding strike team into midtraining group

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25 June 2026 17h31

Google is reorganizing its AI coding strike team as it tries to close the gap with Anthropic in one of the most lucrative parts of the AI market. According to The Information, the months-old team is being expanded into a more formal "midtraining" group, sitting between

Anthropic’s distillation continues unabated despite update

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25 June 2026 16h11

This is an interesting update that Anthropic published in their official letter. But in short: they apparently haven't managed to stop the distillation. It's continuing almost seamlessly, just like before.

AI infrastructure boom still insufficient for data center needs

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25 June 2026 14h23

We are still not building enough data centers. That sounds almost absurd, given the scale of the current AI infrastructure boom. OpenAI and SoftBank’s Stargate campus in Texas alone is expected to cost well over $40 billion and draw around 1.2 gigawatts at peak load. Such an

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OpenAI chip, cold cure, World Cup deals, Fable 5, and AI tools

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25 June 2026 12h30

Top stories in AI today: – OpenAI designs its first custom AI chip
– Anthropic, OpenAI join $500M plan to kill colds
– Get World Cup ticket deals with AI price tracking
– The Fable 5 comeback starts taking shape
– 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more

Claude Fable 5 reappears in AWS Bedrock docs with Active status

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25 June 2026 9h06

Fable 5 watch Claude Fable 5 is showing again in AWS Bedrock docs/model cards. AWS lists the model lifecycle as Active, with Bedrock IDs including `anthropic.claude-fable-5` and `global.anthropic.claude-fable-5`. The data-retention docs also show it as ` status:

Grey-market Claude access in China may resell user logs as training data

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25 June 2026 9h02

There may be an entire grey-market economy around Claude access in China: resellers allegedly pool Claude Max accounts, operate bot networks, and sell access far below official API prices. The more interesting claim: user logs and reasoning traces may be resold as training data.

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Anthropic accuses Chinese tech giants of record AI heist

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25 June 2026 8h51

🚨 Anthropic is accusing Alibaba, DeepSeek, and other Chinese tech giants of orchestrating the largest AI heist in history.

Over 45 days, these companies allegedly bypassed geo-blocks to launch a massive "distillation attack",

using 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million… https://t.co/N6MWQILdzs pic.twitter.com/HmBkKKlx5c
— Charly Wargnier (@DataChaz) 25 juin 2026

Anthropic is accusing Alibaba, DeepSeek, and other Chinese tech giants of orchestrating the largest AI heist in history. Over 45 days, these companies allegedly bypassed geo-blocks to launch a massive "distillation attack", using 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million

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LLM grounded answers may be corrupted by paid ads

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25 June 2026 3h36

And so it begins…or ends If this is true, it would completely change how we use LLMs. Not only they will still be able to hallucinate, but now even if they are "grounded" in data, sources, references, we won't be able to know if it came from a paid ad or is the true answer.