The Financial Times

Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of ‘distillation attacks’ on its models

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Anthropic has accused three leading Chinese AI labs of “industrial-scale” attacks, raising national security ...
Mashable

Anthropic: Chinese AI firms created 24,000 fraudulent accounts for 'distillation attacks'

Anthropic is accusing three Chinese artificial intelligence companies of "industrial-scale campaigns" to "illicitly extract" its technology using distillation attacks. Anthropic says these companies ...
The New York Times

Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data

The San Francisco start-up claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax used approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts to train their own chatbots. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco The San ...
Reuters

OpenAI says China's DeepSeek trained its AI by distilling US models, memo shows

Feb 12 (Reuters) - OpenAI has warned U.S. lawmakers that Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is targeting the ChatGPT maker and the nation's leading AI companies to replicate models and ...
InfoWorld

Researchers propose a self-distillation fix for ‘catastrophic forgetting’ in LLMs

LLMs tend to lose prior skills when fine-tuned for new tasks. A new self-distillation approach aims to reduce regression and simplify model management. A new fine-tuning technique aims to solve ...
The New York Times

Dior Could Use a Distillation

Jonathan Anderson came with some divine inspiration — but was it too much? By Jacob Gallagher Bright and early Wednesday morning, at a preview of the Dior collection I would see six hours later, the ...
Wired

Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it ...
Computer Weekly

DeepSeek shows enterprises model distillation opportunity

Model distillation is one of the technology trends that has reached a level of maturity identified in Gartner’s 2025 Hype Cycle for artificial intelligence (AI) as “the slope of enlightenment”.
Popular Mechanics

The Magic at the Heart of Quantum Computers Has Finally Worked

Making quantum computers fault-tolerant (and scaling effective error correction to enable this) is a key barrier to a new era of quantum supremacy. A new study ...
The Conversation

Filipino sailors dock in Mexico … and help invent tequila?

Stephen Acabado receives funding from the Henry Luce Foundation and the National Science Foundation. But behind the spirit’s flash of marketing and growing popularity lies a rarely asked question: ...
Quanta Magazine

How Distillation Makes AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it focused on the fact that a relatively small and unknown company said ...