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Anthropic is taking its AI rivalry with China to Capitol Hill, urging Congress to address a practice called distillation, where competitors train their own models using outputs from systems like Claude. The company alleges that Alibaba-affiliated operators created nearly twenty-five thousand fraudulent accounts to generate almost twenty-nine million exchanges with its AI — essentially harvesting its intelligence at scale.
Meanwhile, in the world of decentralized finance, prediction market platform Polymarket says it will refund users after hackers exploited a vulnerability through a compromised third-party vendor, making off with millions in cryptocurrency. It's a reminder that in crypto ecosystems, the weakest link is rarely the blockchain itself — it's the surrounding infrastructure.
And on a more expansive note, NASA is welcoming Botswana as the sixty-eighth nation to sign the Artemis Accords, the framework governing cooperative and peaceful exploration of space. It's a quiet but meaningful signal that the ambition to extend human presence beyond Earth is increasingly a shared global project, not just a superpower contest.
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