Wow. Incredible amount of SOTA training data now just available to China thanks to @mercor_ai leak. Every major lab. Billions and billions of value and a major national security issue. https://t.co/BGMemZjPvk— Garry Tan (@garrytan) April 2, 2026
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 $10 billion AI startup, confirms it was caught up in a major security incident | Fortune
The high-flying startup that provides AI training data to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta confirms it was hit by a “supply-chain attack.”
Dark Web Informer on Twitter / X
‼️🇺🇸 LAPSUS$ 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 […]
Dylan Patel – Two labs will soon control most of the world's workforce
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.
Daily Dose of Data Science on Twitter / X
Claude Code fully dissected!Researchers from UCL reverse-engineered the leaked Claude source. What they found changes how you should think about agent design.Only 1.6% of the codebase is AI decision logic.The other 98.4% is operational infrastructure. Permission gates, tool… https://t.co/5HYH7qV3wQ pic.twitter.com/5SBHQy5wFH— Daily Dose of Data Science (@DailyDoseOfDS_) June 13, 2026
How Sundar Pichai is rethinking Google for the AI era | Decoder
Georgi Gerganov on Twitter / X
llama.cpp at 100k starsnow that 90% of the code worldwide is being written by AI agents, I predict that within 3-6 months, 90% of all AI agents will be running locally with llama.cpp 😄Jokes aside, I am going to use this small milestone as an opportunity to reflect a bit on… pic.twitter.com/BpN5VL1bYV— Georgi Gerganov (@ggerganov) March 30, 2026
A big lesson of my China visit: compute shortages are holding back Chinese AI
One estimate suggests that OpenAI has about as much compute as the entire Chinese AI industry.
