Anthropic alleges large-scale distillation campaigns targeting Claude

Anthropic has accused three Chinese AI developers of running large-scale campaigns to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude model to improve their own systems. The company claims DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used a distillation technique, where a less capable model is trained on the outputs of a more advanced one. More than 16 million interactions…

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Multi-token prediction technique triples LLM inference speed without auxiliary draft models

High inference latency and spiraling GPU costs have emerged as the primary bottlenecks for IT leaders deploying agentic AI systems. These workflows often generate thousands of tokens per query, creating a performance gap that current hardware struggles to bridge. Now, researchers from the University of Maryland, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Columbia University, and TogetherAI say…

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Snowflake extends Cortex Code CLI to dbt and Airflow to streamline data engineering workflows

Snowflake has extended support for Cortex Code CLI, its terminal-based AI coding agent, to dbt and Apache Airflow to help data practitioners streamline engineering workflows. “With this extended support, developers unlock secure, context-aware AI assistance within their preferred data engineering systems — empowering teams to work with data wherever it lives, and build, manage, and…

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7 ways to tame multicloud chaos with generative AI

Standardizing on a single cloud infrastructure is much easier than pursuing a multicloud strategy. In a single-cloud environment, IT leaders can optimize skill sets, centralize data more easily, secure infrastructure with fewer tools, and gain many other operational benefits. Yet 89% of enterprises report they are pivoting to multicloud adoption. Reasons for choosing to operate…

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Microsoft brings C++ smarts to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code

Microsoft has introduced C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code. The C++ code understanding improvements were announced on February 19. The updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code bring the same C++ intelligence as the Microsoft’s C/C++ and CMake Tools extensions directly into agent mode by surfacing…

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