The Anti-Distillation Skill
Skill documentation was built on one assumption: that knowledge worth capturing can be captured. The adversarial cycle it spawned is a live test of that assumption.
Anthropic says Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw starting April 4 at 12pm PT, to better manage capacity
Claude subscriptions will no longer cover third-party access from tools like OpenClaw starting Saturday, April 4th.
Samsung plans to discontinue its Messages app in the US in July 2026 and offers instructions for users on older Android versions to switch to Google Messages
Samsung has shared an “End of Service Announcement” for its Messages app in the US. Set for July 2026, Google Messages …
Sources: Copilot sales hit “big audacious goals” by March end after Microsoft pivoted its sales strategy; 3% of customers were paying for Copilot as of January
Microsoft Corp., responding to Wall Street feedback, has pivoted its AI sales strategy to focus on selling Copilot rather …
Medvi, glorified by the NYT as a two-employee startup with $1B+ in revenue, is a warning about how AI can be misused for shady business and marketing practices
AI isn't the only thing behind Medvi — On Thursday, The New York Times published a thing — and it went viral, declared as a victory for AI:
The Artemis II moon mission is one of the first times NASA has let astronauts fly with smartphones, giving them modified iPhones for taking photos and videos
The astronauts traveling in the Artemis II spacecraft were allowed to take smartphones with them. Sadly, they can't connect to the internet.
Y Combinator appears to have dropped Delve, removing the company's profile from its startup directory, following allegations of fake compliance certificates
Delve's removal from Y Combinator's directory follows allegations that compliance certifications for hundreds of Delve's clients were fabricated.
Drift details how suspected North Korean attackers stole $270M posing as a quant trading firm in a 6+ month operation with in-person meetings and a $1M+ deposit
Attackers posed as a trading firm, met Drift contributors in person across multiple countries, deposited $1 million of their own capital …
Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as the inflection point for coding, exhaustion due to managing coding agents, and more
Simon Willison is a prolific independent software developer, a blogger, and one of the most visible and trusted voices on the impact AI is having on builders.
Research across 1,372 participants and 9K+ trials details “cognitive surrender”, where most subjects had minimal AI skepticism and accepted faulty AI reasoning
When it comes to large language model-powered tools, there are generally two broad categories of users.
A profile of Benjamin Brundage, a 22-year-old college senior who helped uncover the Kimwolf botnet, which launched 26,000+ DDoS attacks targeting 8,000+ victims
A flurry of powerful attacks had internet experts baffled. Benjamin Brundage had a few tricks to help solve the mystery.
How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost-cutting and workload demands
“When they say, ‘You should be using AI,’ the first thought in your head is: 'Are you asking me to teach you how to replace me with technology?'" says one studio assistant.
Apple reportedly signed a 3rd-party driver, by Tiny Corp, for AMD or Nvidia eGPUs for Apple Silicon Macs; it's meant for AI research, not accelerating graphics
Apple has signed a driver for AMD or Nvidia eGPUs connected to Apple Silicon but there are some big caveats, and it won't improve your graphics.
TrueUp data shows over 67,000 software engineering job openings, up 30% so far in 2026 and the most in three years, with listings up about 2x since mid-2023
Follow Alistair Barr … - A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. — The US jobs report on Friday was surprisingly strong.
How India's film industry is embracing AI, as studios use the tech to cut production time and costs, while union rules constrain its use in Hollywood
India's studios are transforming filmmaking by using AI to slash production time, cut costs and dub movies into numerous languages.
Russian media says attempts to limit VPN use may have triggered a widespread banking outage, as Moscow intensifies a crackdown on internet use and Telegram
US commercial satellite provider Planet Labs is indefinitely withholding access to imagery of Iran and the conflict region, citing US government's request
Satellite imaging firm Planet Labs said on Saturday it will indefinitely withhold visuals of Iran and the region of conflict …
A profile of Mikko Hyppönen, a cybersecurity veteran who pivoted from fighting malware to developing anti-drone systems for law enforcement and the military
Mikko Hyppönen is pacing back and forth on the stage, with his trademark dark blonde ponytail resting on an impeccable teal suit.
Filing: Anthropic has formed AnthroPAC, a new PAC that will be funded exclusively and voluntarily by its employees and is expected to be bipartisan
Sources: the UK has stepped up its efforts to get Anthropic to expand in the country, including a dual listing proposal, after Anthropic's clash with the US DOD
Keir Starmer's government steps up efforts to get American AI start-up to grow its presence in Britain
How some teens use popular AI-powered role-playing chatbots, and the high-stakes challenge for parents to understand their potentially addictive impact
When Quentin was 13, he kept seeing ads on YouTube for Talkie, an app with “countless A.I.s eager to speak with you.”
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is back to writing code after a two-decade hiatus, submitting three diffs to Meta's monorepo, and is a heavy user of Claude Code CLI
EU legislation allowing voluntary CSAM scanning by tech and social media companies expired April 3 after lawmakers failed to agree on the terms of an extension
Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is seeking a chief scientist with an annual pay of as much as ~$18M; China's AI industry has eschewed mega pay packages
VCs are covering expenses like rent for young college dropouts founding AI startups; Antler: average AI unicorn founder age fell from 40 in 2020 to 29 in 2024
Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025, releases GEN-1, an AI model to help robots handle high-dexterity tasks typically done by humans
The White House's latest effort to enact legislation that would preempt state AI laws stalls as multiple Democrats dismiss the proposal as a partisan play
According to Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use, updated in Oct. 2025, “Copilot is for entertainment purposes only” and “Don't rely on Copilot for important advice”
These might be boilerplate disclaimers, but they kind of contradict the company's ads and marketing.