Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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References & Links:
Anthropic: "Detecting and preventing distillation attacks": anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-distillation-attacks
OpenAI memo (via Bloomberg): assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rRmql_jJcxb4/v0
Google GTIG Report: cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/distillation-experimentation-integration-ai-adversarial-use
Hinton, Vinyals, Dean (2015): "Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network": arxiv.org/abs/1503.02531
Stanford Alpaca: https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alpaca.html
Anthropic $1.5B Settlement (NPR): npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5529404/anthropic-settlement-authors-copyright-ai
Project Panama (Boston Globe): bostonglobe.com/2026/01/27/nation/silicon-valley-plan-destroy-books
Elon Musk response: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2026052687423562228
Rest of World (timing skepticism): restofworld.org/2026/openai-deepseek-distillation-dispute-us-china
DeepSeek R1 release: api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250120
MiniMax IPO (Caixin): caixinglobal.com/2026-01-06/minimaxs-hong-kong-ipo-oversubscribed-1848-times-as-ai-frenzy-builds-102400879.html
Kimi K2.5 (TechCrunch): techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/chinas-moonshot-releases-a-new-open-source-model-kimi-k2-5-and-a-coding-agent
My article on this: louisbouchard.ai/ai-distillation

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