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Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products  —  The allegations mirror those of OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distillation’ to improve models
Pia Singh / CNBC:
IBM shares closed down 13.15% after Anthropic outlined in a blog post how Claude Code can automate the exploration and analysis phases of COBOL modernization  —  International Business Machines stock is getting slammed Monday, becoming the latest perceived victim of rapidly developing AI technology …
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Apple says it plans to move some Mac Mini production to Houston from Asia later in 2026, as part of its efforts to invest $600B in the US over four years  —  The company will move some production of the desktop computer to Foxconn facility in Texas  —  Apple will move some production …
Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal:
A court-appointed administrator winding down Terraform Labs sues Jane Street, alleging it engaged in insider trading to profit from and hasten Terraform's fall  —  The court-appointed administrator of Do Kwon's Terraform Labs alleged that Jane Street used nonpublic information from Terraform insiders to trade
Jack Pitcher / Wall Street Journal:
Software stocks like AppLovin and CrowdStrike extended their weeks-long selloff; several of the biggest decliners were discussed in Citrini Research's post  —  The weeks-long selloff in software stocks deepened Monday amid general unease about the threat posed by AI.
Citrini Research:
Imagining an AI-driven “2028 Global Intelligence Crisis”: as white-collar layoffs grow, the human-centric consumer economy withers and the social fabric frays
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Wall Street Journal:
How Binance staffers found $1B was sent to sanctioned Iranian entities via the exchange, which dismantled their probe and suspended them after Trump pardoned CZ  —  Weeks after Trump pardoned Binance's founder, the company dismantled probe and suspended the investigators; Binance denied inquiry ended or staff fired for the concerns
Bloomberg:
Sources: PayPal is attracting takeover interest after a stock slide over the past year wiped out almost half of its market value; PYPL closed up 5.76%  —  PayPal Holdings Inc., the digital payments pioneer, is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after a stock slide wiped …
Axios:
A DOD official says xAI has agreed to let the military use Grok in classified systems and agreed to the “all lawful use” standard, which Anthropic has refused  —  But the Pentagon is threatening Anthropic in a dispute over safeguards and may soon need a replacement.
Axios:
Sources: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning for what is likely to be a tense meeting over Claude usage
Josh Dzieza / The Verge:
A look at the challenges some AI developers face in building models to extract trillions of high-quality tokens from PDFs, which are hard to parse, for training  —  Last November, the House Oversight Committee had just released 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein …

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New York Times:
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Earlier Picks

Anthropic:
Anthropic details the AI Fluency Index, tracking 11 behaviors that represent human-AI collaboration and measure how people collaborate with AI
More: Axios, The Decoder, and Forbes
X: @anthropicai, @emollick, and @himanshustwts
LinkedIn: Julie Schell and Pooja Palod.  Bluesky: @timkellogg.me.  Forums: Hacker News
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI launches Frontier Alliances, entering into multiyear deals with Accenture, BCG, Capgemini, and McKinsey to help deploy its enterprise platform Frontier
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: some Xbox staffers say they are relieved that Sarah Bond is leaving, after she led a pivot away from the console with the “Xbox everywhere” strategy
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:
Uber launches Uber Autonomous Solutions, offering services like insurance, roadside assistance, and “AV mission control” tools, and will offer fleet financing
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