On Feb 24, 2026, Anthropic said it uncovered industrial-scale efforts by Chinese Labs (@DeepSeek, Moonshot and @MiniMax-M2.5) to extract capabilities from its Claude models via distillation.
According to Anthropic, the campaigns involved:
16M+ exchanges
~24,000 fraudulent accounts
Proxy networks to bypass regional restrictions
Targeted extraction of reasoning, coding and tool-use abilities
I posted a random thread on X about the cost of living in the Netherlands. Nothing about what we're building. Just genuine thoughts about life in the Netherlands.
It hit 1M+ impressions. And here's the weird part we got a ton of signups and paid users for Starnus from it. Without ever mentioning the product.
Meanwhile, my "here's what Starnus does" posts? Way less engagement.
This genuinely messed with my head. I'm sharing the actual X post below
When I first started, I believed that as long as I built a great product, it would naturally become popular. But as I zoomed out, I realized the market is incredibly competitive. Having a good product alone isn t enough to truly convince users.
That s when I began building my presence on social media creating content about myself, sharing my journey, and talking about the product I m building. I ve come to see this as a very effective way to build trust and spark genuine interest not only in what I make, but also in who I am as a founder.
At the beginning of the year, 2 co-founders reached out to me because they wanted to scale their personal LinkedIn profiles. The reason: In a few months, they re planning to raise funding and believe their personal brand could help.
A few days ago, another founder contacted me with a similar intention, although he s not planning to raise funding. For him, LinkedIn has become the platform that generates the most leads. He doesn t particularly enjoy the network itself, but he still wants to keep building it.
hey ph community, spent a good amount of time putting this one together and i think it's worth a read if you're into learning, productivity, or just curious about how memory actually works.
most people try to learn vocabulary, feel like nothing is sticking after a week, and quit. what they don't realize is that the real changes in your brain happen much later. and if you quit before week 3, you're leaving before the interesting part even starts.
I m increasingly noticing a trend: people use AI for (almost everything), especially for writing texts. it is nothing new, but it started to be annoying (?)
The problem is that AI often: fully or largely replicates existing text without adding anything new adds completely pointless things, like a two-line comment followed by writes extremely long comments that no one will actually read
Product Hunt is best known for its homepage, a daily leaderboard of the most creative and innovative products on the internet. Makers go all out to win launch day, because that visibility matters. Product Hunt also plays a significant role in how products appear in Google search results.
What surprised us was that AI assistants like ChatGPT were rarely citing Product Hunt in product recommendations.
Self-centred update today, but adding the top Product Hunt badge to our site felt real good. See bottom right of image, also online here: meet-ting.com
Beijing is investing billions into a national AI fund and its broader AI+ initiative to embed artificial intelligence across the entire economy. Backed by strong state support, domestic chip production, and lower manufacturing costs, China can scale AI solutions rapidly and analysts say it s on track to surpass the U.S. in the race for AI dominance. (IMO, it already happened.)
And one of the examples is these 2 news items I read today: 1) Alibaba unveils Qwen3.5 as China s chatbot race shifts to AI agents
2) and this one is even more important: Alibaba has launched RynnBrain, an open-source AI model designed to power robots that can see, think, and act in real-world environments.
A few days ago, Bytedance (which is also responsible for TikTok) announced a new model for generating videos. According to an article on Techcrunch, Hollywood isn t happy.
Today, I came across an article on TechCrunch: The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead).
It shows that UC campuses saw a drop in computer science enrollment for the first time since the dot-com crash (6% in 2025, 3% in 2024), but students are shifting to AI-focused programs.
They help with launch copy, visuals, outreach, follow-ups basically most of what used to take days can now be done in hours.
But I keep thinking about something. Are AI agents actually improving product discovery on Product Hunt or are they just making launches look more polished?
Yes, AI speeds things up. You can test messaging faster, create better assets, prepare more efficiently.
