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Why SpaceX Cares About Dirt So Much?

Desalination offers a potential solution to global water shortages, but the process is far from simple. Removing salt from ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Experiments suggest Neanderthals used birch tar for antibacterial wound care

Researchers have found that birch tar produced using methods available to Neanderthals carries measurable antibacterial ...
The Financial Times

What is AI ‘distillation’?

Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Anthropic this week claimed that competitors from China were stealing its AI technology by mounting ...
CNBC

Anthropic joins OpenAI in flagging 'industrial-scale' distillation campaigns by Chinese AI firms

Anthropic accused three Chinese AI firms of engaging in concerted "distillation attack" campaigns. U.S. companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are concerned with ceding a competitive advantage to such ...
Mashable

Anthropic: Chinese AI firms created 24,000 fraudulent accounts for 'distillation attacks'

Anthropic is accusing three Chinese artificial intelligence companies of "industrial-scale campaigns" to "illicitly extract" its technology using distillation attacks. Anthropic says these companies ...
The New York Times

Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data

The San Francisco start-up claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax used approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts to train their own chatbots. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco The San ...
Fox News

Viral grocery shopping method promises to slash spending: 'Way easier, way cheaper'

As the prices of certain grocery items remain elevated in many parts of the country, Americans keep looking for money-saving hacks, including a straightforward approach that's all about bringing home ...
Reuters

OpenAI says China's DeepSeek trained its AI by distilling US models, memo shows

Feb 12 (Reuters) - OpenAI has warned U.S. lawmakers that Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is targeting the ChatGPT maker and the nation's leading AI companies to replicate models and ...
VentureBeat

MIT's new fine-tuning method lets LLMs learn new skills without losing old ones

When enterprises fine-tune LLMs for new tasks, they risk breaking everything the models already know. This forces companies to maintain separate models for every skill. Researchers at MIT, the ...
IEEE

MTSD: Simple Yet Effective Self-Distillation for Generalizable Deepfake Detection

Abstract: The rapid advancement of Deepfake technology necessitates detection systems with strong generalization capabilities. Existing methods often depend on architectural modifications or ...
Wired

Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it ...