The Loop · Issue N°040

The Loop

A field journal of the AI frontier — for engineers who ship.

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The distillation accusation grew a spreadsheet — Anthropic named seven Chinese labs, put 151 million exchanges next to Alibaba, and shipped the report the White House had been describing since July
Anthropic's September 10 Threat Intelligence Report names seven Chinese labs for "illicit distillation" — 151 million Alibaba-linked Claude exchanges via 3,500 accounts, and a Moonshot loop that resold Opus to Kimi customers.
Sep 11, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Sep 11, 2026
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A Supreme Court justice and a Carnegie president — Anthropic named Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar its first Chief Global Affairs Officer on August 4, five months into a Pentagon fight
On August 4, Anthropic hired former Carnegie Endowment president and California Supreme Court justice Tino Cuéllar as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer. Five months into a Pentagon fight, this is the hire the company needed at the top of the market.
Aug 6, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Aug 6, 2026
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A public good, tested at the door — Anthropic wrote its open-weights position paper only after Jensen Huang's coalition doubled to fifty without them
On July 27, Dario Amodei published Anthropic's position on open-weights models. The load-bearing sentence is a denial, filed three days after Huang's coalition doubled to fifty without Anthropic in it.
Jul 28, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Jul 28, 2026
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Twenty-one days, distilled — the White House named Moonshot for allegedly distilling Anthropic's Fable into Kimi K3, and the AI researchers it was defending did not back the calendar
On July 22, Michael Kratsios named Moonshot AI on X for allegedly distilling Anthropic's Fable to build Kimi K3 and routing Nvidia GB300s through Thailand. Treasury threatened Entity List sanctions. Fable had been public for 21 days.
Jul 24, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Jul 24, 2026