Mechanical Turk Closes - AI Ate Its Own Training Data

LongCat-2.0 Review: China's Stealth Coder

Meituan's 1.6T open-source coding model secretly topped OpenRouter for two months before revealing itself - and the price-to-performance math is hard to argue with.

Anthropic Caught Qwen Running 25,000 Fake Claude Accounts

Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of running 25,000 fraudulent accounts that extracted 28.8 million Claude interactions in the largest AI distillation attack on record.

Claude Hits Azure GA on NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra Hardware

Anthropic's Claude models are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure, running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra NVL72 racks - with vendor numbers claiming 40% faster token generation than H100.

Mechanical Turk Closes - AI Ate Its Own Training Data

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk on July 30, 2026, retiring the crowdsourcing platform that spent 21 years training the AI models now replacing it.

Midjourney Asks Court to Expose Studio AI Practices

Midjourney has asked a federal judge to compel Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to disclose their own AI training practices - using the studios' conduct as a fair-use and unclean-hands defense in a high-stakes copyright case.