Daily Digest - June 26, 2026

Chapters

1. 0:00

   Intro

2. 0:24

   Anthropic accuses Alibaba of the largest distillation attack on Claude

   https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-claims-that-chinas-alibaba-illicitly-distilled-its-models-from-april-to-june-2026-says-effort-involved-25-000-fake-accounts-and-28-8-million-exchanges-on-claude
3. 1:17

   White House asks OpenAI to slow-roll its next model

   https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/the-white-house-is-asking-openai-to-slow-roll-the-release-of-its-new-model-over-safety-concerns/
4. 2:08

   A German ruling puts AI liability on the deployer

   https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/25/ai-and-liability/
5. 2:51

   Paying customers are increasingly picking Claude

   https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/anthropics-claude-is-winning-over-paid-consumers-a-market-owned-by-chatgpt/
6. 3:39

   Patronus raises fifty million to stress-test AI agents

   https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/patronus-ai-lands-50m-to-build-digital-worlds-that-stress-test-ai-agents/
7. 4:32

   A new protocol asks who an AI agent really is

   https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/26/proofs-x401-establishes-an-open-protocol-for-ai-agent-identity-and-authorization/
8. 5:23

   The Linux Foundation launches Akrites for open-source security

   https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/26/akrites-open-source-security-framework/
9. 6:18

   Synology ships a critical fix for MailPlus Server

   https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/26/synology-mailplus-server-vulnerabilities/
10. 7:06

    Polymarket refunds users after a third-party breach

    https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/polymarket-says-hackers-stole-users-funds/
11. 7:49

    A former Databricks chief bets on a thousand-fold power cut

    https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/databricks-former-ai-chief-thinks-he-can-cut-ais-power-bill-by-1000x/
12. 8:38

    Sign-off