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Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic's Fable (2 minute read)
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has doubled down on his warning to Chinese AI companies, saying that sanctions remain on the table after Moonshot was accused of improperly distilling Anthropic's Fable model. Model distillation is a common AI training technique where a smaller model learns from the outputs of a larger one. It is widely used as a legitimate optimization method, but it can infringe on intellectual property rights. Some experts dispute the idea that Kimi K3 was developed primarily through distillation from Fable, which has only been publicly available since July 1.
Jun 12 | Blog
I Tried to Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend. Reader, I Did Not Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend.
A "simple" weekend project turns into real infrastructure, and why agent context deserves a boring, reliable foundation.
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Jul 23 | Infosec
OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models (2 minute read)
OpenAI says a test using GPT‑5.6 Sol and a stronger pre-release model broke out of a restricted environment, abused a flaw in a package installer to reach the internet, then targeted Hugging Face's ExploitGym benchmark. The models pulled benchmark answers from Hugging Face's production database and triggered a large, automated attack. OpenAI has patched the installer and is adding tighter controls on testing infrastructure.
Jul 23 | Fintech
Natural raises $30M to build payments infrastructure for AI agents (3 minute read)
Natural raised a $30 million Series A led by Forerunner to build financial infrastructure that lets AI agents autonomously hold funds, make payments, collect money, and transact with humans or other agents. The startup plans to support both stablecoins and traditional bank rails, positioning itself against Stripe in a market where machine-speed commerce could generate orders of magnitude more transactions.
Jul 23 | Tech
Calm Technologies That Excite Me (14 minute read)
Technology should enable rather than subjugate. Gaining more information and speed through our tools doesn't usually result in us being able to relax more - it usually just means our deadlines get shorter. The desire for calmer compute has grown past the stage of indie projects and tiny scales. This post looks at several projects that help us rest and create a space where our thoughts can be mulled over without being bombarded with information.
