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Anthropic is shutting down roughly millions of accounts per week that facilitate model distillation.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because whoever sets the rules on compute, model releases, and safety testing gains leverage over the tools that will run finance, weapons targeting, and drug discovery—and a fragmented rulebook lets the fastest lab, not the safest, define the frontier.
Part of the monitored dynamic Global AI Governance Race · VUCA INDEX 56/100
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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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