Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of stealing capabilities through 24,000 fake accounts - DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax created more than 16 million exchanges with Claude using fraudulent accounts to illicitly extract capabilities through distillation, targeting agentic reasoning, tool use, and coding while circumventing export controls on advanced chips.

Accenture warns senior staff to use AI or don't get promoted - After training 550,000 workers in AI last year, the consulting giant is now making AI proficiency a requirement for career advancement, joining KPMG in tying AI usage to performance reviews and upward mobility starting with the 2026 review cycle.

Google executive warns AI wrapper startups could be in trouble - Darren Mowry, head of Google's global startup organization, said companies that simply wrap existing large language models with thin intellectual property have their "check engine light" on, as the industry loses patience for startups without deep differentiation or vertical-specific moats.

DeepSeek targeted censorship-safe query alternatives through distillation attacks - Among the 150,000 exchanges from DeepSeek tracked by Anthropic, the Chinese lab specifically aimed at improving foundational logic and creating censorship-safe alternatives to policy-sensitive queries, while MiniMax redirected nearly half its traffic within 24 hours when Anthropic released a new model.

Anthropic raises distillation as national security threat - The company argued models built through illicit distillation lack safety guardrails designed to prevent misuse, enabling authoritarian governments to deploy frontier AI for offensive cyber operations, disinformation campaigns, and mass surveillance, making the practice a security risk beyond intellectual property theft.

Meta secures millions of Nvidia chips in multi-year supply deal - The social media giant's large-scale commitment influences availability, vendor leverage, and financing structures behind AI buildouts, tightening supply-and-pricing dynamics across the AI infrastructure stack as depreciation cycles shorten and capital intensity rises.