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Anthropic is shutting down roughly millions of accounts per week that facilitate model distillation.
Part of the monitored dynamic Global AI Governance Race · VUCA INDEX 69/100
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scmp.com — US hardens AI stance on China as Anthropic calls for extending lead
"We are now shutting down accounts that are facilitating this distillation on the order of millions of accounts per week."
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Extracted by pipeline v0.5 (claude-opus-4-8) from scmp.com · approved by christopher@vucanews.com JUL 18.
Extracted JUL 16; approved JUL 18 at 0.60.
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