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Asian markets took a significant hit today as tech shares slumped across the region. South Korea's Kospi index triggered its circuit breaker for the third time this week, halting trading entirely to prevent panic selling. It's a sharp reminder of how sensitive global markets remain to shifts in tech sentiment.
Turning to a different kind of infrastructure, SpaceX has unveiled plans for what it's calling Starpipe, a dedicated natural gas pipeline designed to fuel its Starship rockets. The project signals just how seriously Elon Musk's company is treating launch cadence as an industrial-scale operation, moving beyond off-the-shelf energy supply toward building its own.
And in a story with real implications for the AI industry, Anthropic is alleging what it describes as the largest-ever distillation attack on its Claude model, pointing the finger at Alibaba. Distillation attacks involve using a frontier model's outputs to train a competing system, essentially extracting its intelligence without licensing it. If the allegations hold, this could reshape how AI companies think about access controls and legal exposure across international borders.
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