Anthropic's Secret Tracker and Nineteen Billion Dollar Lease
Anthropic spent months talking up privacy and responsible AI. Turns out they also spent months secretly tagging Chinese users with hidden code to sniff out distillation attacks. A researcher just blew the whistle, and Anthropic's response was basically 'yeah, we've been meaning to turn that off.' Today we've got surveillance hypocrisy, a nineteen billion dollar data center deal, Microsoft laying off five thousand people, and benchmark numbers that should make freelancers nervous. 1. Anthropic Caught Running Secret User Tracker (Ars Technica AI) 2. TeraWulf Signs $19 Billion Anthropic Compute…
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