Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.

2026-06-26 · 27 min · episode 185 · 19 entities

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Link in episode "Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.": https://tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow
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Link in episode "Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.": https://cnbc.com/2026/06/24/anthropic-alibaba-distillation-campaign.html
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Link in episode "Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.": https://cnbc.com/2026/06/25/apple-macbook-ipad-price-hike-memory.html
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Link in episode "Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.": https://openai.com/index/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-inference-chip

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Link in episode "Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.": https://cnbc.com/2026/06/24/anthropic-alibaba-distillation-campaign.html
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Link in episode "Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.": https://openai.com/index/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-inference-chip
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Link in episode "Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.": https://cnbc.com/2026/06/24/anthropic-alibaba-distillation-campaign.html
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Link in episode "Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.": https://openai.com/index/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-inference-chip

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Link in episode "Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.": https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/
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Link in episode "Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.": https://tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow
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Link in episode "Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.": https://cnbc.com/2026/06/25/apple-macbook-ipad-price-hike-memory.html
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Link in episode "Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.": https://tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow
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Link in episode "Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.": https://cnbc.com/2026/06/25/apple-macbook-ipad-price-hike-memory.html

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Anthropic just accused Alibaba of the largest known corporate espionage campaign against it, alleging 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million queries aimed at stealing Claude. We get into the AI cold war heating up between the US and China, why Apple and Microsoft just raised prices, OpenAI's first chip Jalapeno, the wild new Seed Audio 1.0 model, Claude landing in Slack, and a Blender plus Seedance video workflow that gives you real control. This week on AI For Humans, Gavin Purcell and Kevin Pereira open on a genuine spy-novel turn: Anthropic has accused Chinese tech giant Alibaba of running an industrial-scale distillation campaign to siphon Claude's capabilities, laid out in a letter to US senators. It is an accusation, not a proven finding, and Alibaba has not responded, but it puts the US-China AI race front and center. From there we get into why the new models everyone expected this week didn't actually arrive, the AI memory crunch driving Apple and Microsoft price hikes, and OpenAI designing its first chip, Jalapeno, with Broadcom. On the fun side, Seed Audio 1.0 generates full songs and layered soundscapes, Claude shows up inside Slack via Claude TAG, TheWrap experiments with AI microdramas, and we break down a Blender pre-viz plus Seedance 2.0 workflow that makes AI video remarkably controllable. WE ARE NOT SPY. WE NEED FABLE 5 BACK. WE PLEAD. // Show Links // Anthropic accuses Alibaba of brazenly and illicitly extracting Claude's capabilities (CNBC) https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/24/anthropic-alibaba-distillation-campaign.html The post that put the espionage story on our radar (unconfirmed single-source thread) https://x.com/S0N_IA/status/2069893802802745673 Apple raises MacBook and iPad prices as the AI memory crunch bites (CNBC) https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/25/apple-macbook-ipad-price-hike-memory.html OpenAI unveils its first chip, Jalapeno, built with Broadcom (official) https://openai.com/index/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-inference-chip/ No new flagship this week, but OpenAI did ship a GPT-5.5 Instant update https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2069843083701915755 Seed Audio 1.0 generates full songs and layered audio scenes (via fal) https://x.com/fal/status/2070138257891791237 Claude TAG brings Claude into Slack for everyone https://x.com/ashwingop/status/2069814177624121469 Andrej Karpathy on the new Slack workflow https://x.com/karpathy/status/2069822834160124091 Blender pre-viz into Seedance 2.0 for incredible video control (shared by venturetwins) https://x.com/venturetwins/status/2069809200788799582 Original creator of the Blender to Seedance workflow https://x.com/craftcapitallab The full AI Warper workflow breakdown https://x.com/AIWarper/status/2069847773034488262 Join our Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans Newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us on X @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Find us on TikTok @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Book us for speaking or consultation https://www.aiforhumans.show/