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.
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.
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.”
Still unverified. On September 8 the NSA, CISA and FBI repeated the allegation in a joint advisory — Moonshot ‘extracted significant Claude Fable 5 data to train its Kimi-K3 model’ — again publishing no evidence. Moonshot denies it. No Entity List or sanctions action has followed.