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Michael Kratsios

person · government officialCredibility: 65%

Why this score? Director of US science and technology policy; the administration's senior technology official, so domain-relevant and specific. Discounted because his distillation claim was made on social media without released evidence, by a party to the dispute it concerns.

Tracked Statements (2)

I think like a lot of folks these days like when they're doing a layoff that they would have done anyway, just like to assign it or blame it to AI because it plays better in the press.?

— Michael Kratsios · Aug 6, 2026
Context: Recorded rather than scored: why an employer chose a framing is not observable from outside. The observable half has support here — monday.com's and Visa's filings omit the AI reason their announcements carried, and Revelio Labs found nearly half the AI-blaming cohort had cut AI headcount first.

“We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable for the development of its K3 model.”?

— Michael Kratsios · Jul 22, 2026
Context: Still unverified. No evidence accompanied the accusation (Politico: Kratsios "did not provide evidence"); Moonshot denies it and MOFCOM called it evidence-free. The Information (Aug 28) confirms Moonshot has a Southeast-Asian channel for Blackwell chips but not whether it is a legal rental or an illicit purchase. No Entity List or sanctions action has followed, and Moonshot is absent from the Pentagon's Section 1260H list.