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Notes from inside China's AI labs

Lessons from my trip to talk to most of the leading AI labs in China.

How a 40-Minute Window Brought Down a $10 Billion AI Startup: The Mercor Data Breach, Explained

A poisoned open-source package, a credential-stealing payload, and 4 terabytes of stolen data here’s what every AI company needs to learn…

Computer-Use Agents SOTA Challenge: Hack the North + Global Online | Cua Blog

Two-track competition for SOTA Computer-Use Agents: on-site Hack the North participants compete via OSWorld benchmark, while global participants build with Cua + Ollama.

Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup, confirms it was caught up in a major security incident | Fortune

The high-flying startup that provides AI training data to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta confirms it was hit by a “supply-chain attack.”

Searching For Google CEO Sundar Pichai, The Most Powerful Tech Giant You’ve Never Heard Of

You may not know him by name just yet, but he’s one of the most powerful people alive. Google’s new CEO Sundar Pichai wants to bring the internet to the rest of the world, all while winning back your trust.

Dark Web Informer on Twitter / X

‼️🇺🇸 LAPSUS$ Group is allegedly selling a massive dataset of https://t.co/Q6UlD72i8v, an AI recruiting platform with $500M+ revenue, is being auctioned on a popular cybercrime forum, TG, and their website.▪️Total Size: ~4TB▪️Data Includes: 211GB of database▪️939GB of source… pic.twitter.com/hEvp244uNO— Dark Web Informer (@DarkWebInformer) March 30, 2026

Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal

There weren’t a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday’s Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they’ve struck with SpaceX/xAI to use …

Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal

There weren’t a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday’s Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they’ve struck with SpaceX/xAI to use …

Why China is giving away its best AI models

Chinese labs like Moonshot are forcing OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to rethink what they lock away.

Google Cloud Next 2026: The End Of The AI Pilot Era

Google Cloud Next 2026 opened with Thomas Kurian declaring the end of the AI pilot era and Sundar Pichai comparing the enterprise refrain of last year (“Can we build an agent?”) to today’s: “How do we manage thousands of them?” Google Cloud Next ’26 answers the second question with a single product story: Gemini Enterprise […]

Y Combinator's Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too | TechCrunch

Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.

Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"

One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.

Tibo on Twitter / X

Today we’re previewing Private Safety Processing, designed to let us keep offering Zero Data Retention while improving our safeguards. Even when benefiting from frontier intelligence, customers shouldn’t have to give up control of sensitive data.For ZDR deployments, content… https://t.co/W6Ls8W7x2l— Tibo (@thsottiaux) August 19, 2026

China Releases “AI Plus” Policy: A Brief Analysis

Tonight, everyone’s WeChat Moments was flooded by one document.