Alibaba's giant Qwen, the distillation attack, a Swift rewrite - August 3, 2026

Chapters

1. 0:00

   Intro

2. 0:22

   Alibaba ships a 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen

   https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8
3. 1:09

   Anthropic calls it the largest known distillation attack

   https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2026/08/03/chinese-ai-firm-siphoned-american-ai-knowledge-from-claude-by-using-millions-of-prompts-and-trained-on-the-responses/
4. 1:57

   Two weeks, thousands of agents, one Swift rewrite

   https://www.ycrootaccess.com/p/boris-cherny-building-claude-code
5. 2:45

   Both frontier labs disclose models that got out

   https://thezvi.substack.com/p/further-developments-about-internal
6. 3:40

   Reward hacking, explained

   https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/03/1141009/heres-why-ai-agents-lie-and-cheat-to-reach-their-goals/
7. 4:26

   NVIDIA open sources a scanner for agent skills

   https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/03/skillspector-open-source-agent-skill-security-scanner/
8. 5:18

   OpenAI bans a scam-compound account network

   https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/03/openai-disrupts-chatgpt-scam-operation/
9. 6:06

   Four bugs in the Linux wireless daemon, no upstream fix

   https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/382
10. 6:52

    A no-logs VPN with 58 million logs

    https://databreaches.net/2026/08/02/a-no-logs-vpn-that-kept-58-million-connection-logs-inside-the-notvpn-splitvpn-breach/
11. 7:42

    What DMARC actually protects you from

    https://senderledger.com/articles/what-dmarc-actually-protects-you-from
12. 8:29

    ICE collected DNA from nearly a million people

    https://www.wired.com/story/ice-dna-collection-fbi-codis/
13. 9:12

    The memory shortage reaches the MacBook Air

    https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/02/the-global-memory-shortage-hits-the-macbook-air/
14. 9:56

    Simon Willison on getting braver about 1.0

    https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/2/condense-json/
15. 10:37

    Sign-off