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What is AI model distillation, and why is it so hard to stop?

What is AI model distillation, and why is it so hard to stop?

To make grain-based liquor, you heat a fermented mash in a still until alcohol-rich vapor rises and then cool it back into a stronger liquid. Chemists and whiskey makers know this as distillation. Artificial intelligence developers have borrowed the word to describe boiling down a big AI model into a smaller one—and lately the biggest...

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China’s open AI models are testing America’s approach to AI safety

China’s open AI models are testing America’s approach to AI safety

September 24, 2026 3 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm America’s AI giants want safety controls. China’s open models complicate that With Donald Trump and Xi Jinping set to discuss AI safety, the growing popularity of Chinese open-weight models highlights the limits of developer-controlled safeguards By Peter Hall edited by Eric Sullivan U.S....

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1% of AI Users are 80% of Revenue and Usage

1% of AI Users are 80% of Revenue and Usage

1% of companies generate 80% of OpenAI and Anthropic’s enterprise revenue. The top 1% of firms spend about 600x per employee what the median firm spends. Among individual developers, the top 1% write 46x more AI-generated code per day than the median user and merge 15x more pull requests. A small group of agentic power...

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Lunar Cyber Launches Token Exposure Monitoring as Infostealers Target Developer and AI Credentials

Lunar Cyber Launches Token Exposure Monitoring as Infostealers Target Developer and AI Credentials

New capability identifies, attributes and validates API keys, OAuth tokens and other machine credentials stolen from developer and employee endpoints Lunar Cyber today announced Token Exposure Monitoring, a new capability designed to identify, attribute and validate Non-Human Identities (NHI) and machine credentials inside infostealer logs, connect them to the affected organization, and determine which exposures...

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iOS 27 beta 7 is out now as the general release date approaches

iOS 27 beta 7 is out now as the general release date approaches

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn’t affect our editorial independence . Apple is getting its big new fall update in shape, but it’s not ready just yet. On the first day of the WWDC developer conference, Apple released the first developer beta of its new...

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Protect yourself online for 5 years with this $35 AdGuard VPN subscription

Protect yourself online for 5 years with this $35 AdGuard VPN subscription

When people think about using VPNs, they often focus solely on the geo-restriction and streaming perks. However, VPNs are also essential for data security. That’s why AdGuard VPN balances the “fun” features with the more “practical” ones, providing you with a privacy tool that caters to a variety of needs. This 5-year subscription gives you...

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XAI Grok 4.6 is Third Place But Close to OpenAI and Anthropic

XAI Grok 4.6 is Third Place But Close to OpenAI and Anthropic

Theo is a developer and founder heavily involved with agentic coding tools, T3 Code, Cursor integrations, and AI model testing. He reviews xAI’s newly released Grok 4.6. He notes xAI has accelerated dramatically since acquiring Cursor, moving from long dry spells to rapid back-to-back releases. Grok 4.6 It is not a new pre-train but a...