The Whiskey Wash on MSN

How whisky is made: Ingredients, distillation, and everything in between

You love whisky, but do you know how it's actually made? We break down every step from grain to glass, revealing the secrets ...

This AI shortcut could destroy the industry's profits

AI distillation threatens top AI firms like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google as rivals use it to replicate cutting-edge models ...
Newser on MSN

Anthropic uncovers 'largest known distillation attack'

American AI companies say their tech edge is being quietly siphoned off—by both rivals and China. In a June 10 letter to Sens ...

3 Ways Beginners Can Easily Identify Quality Gin (And What To Avoid)

Gin brings to mind earthy, botanical flavors, but how can a new gin drinker decipher what makes gin good and what to look for ...
cybermagazine

Inside Anthropic's Claims of Distillation Attack by Alibaba

Anthropic has accused Alibaba of orchestrating a large-scale distillation campaign to extract capabilities from its Claude AI models Anthropic alleges Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude's capabilities ...

How One New York Estate Is Reviving America’s Lost Brandy Tradition

Nearly four centuries after Dutch settlers brought distillation to New York, one producer is reviving a lost tradition of American brandy and eau-de-vie rooted in orchards, patience, and place.

Everyone Wants to Build AI Using Someone Else’s Work

Not long after the generative AI boom took the business world and Wall Street by storm, a chorus of complaints started being leveled against companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Anth ...
VentureBeat

How Shopify built an AI stack that doesn't care which models survive

Shopify built an LLM proxy that gives every engineer access to multiple AI providers — with automatic failover when any one of them goes down, changes, or disappears. When Claude Fable 5 shut down, ...
Investopedia

Oil Refineries: How They Work and Their Key Functions

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
The Verge

Elon Musk confirms xAI used OpenAI’s models to train Grok

He said it was ‘partly’ true that the company had used model distillation to improve xAI’s models. He said it was ‘partly’ true that the company had used model distillation to improve xAI’s models. is ...
Hacker

Qwen3.6 35B Gets Claude Opus Reasoning Distillation

Your browser does not support the audio element. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-Distilled-GGUF is a quantized version of a reasoning-focused fine-tune ...
Global Times

US AI companies reportedly zoom in on Chinese firms' model distillation; Chinese experts say move driven by anxiety over China's rapid progress in open-source AI

A Bloomberg report on Monday claimed that OpenAI, Anthropic PBC and Alphabet Inc's Google have begun working together to "clamp down" on Chinese competitors for so-called "extracting results from ...