One interesting thing I came across this week was that the CEO of Duolingo first declared intentions to use AI to replace contract workers in some positions. However, they later withdrew that comment, making it clear that AI will not replace its employees.
Ahh, this type of discrepancy appears to be happening more often, to be honest. The same thing happened to Klarna not long ago. That AI will take care of everything in one minute, and then, hold on: in reality, we still need human workers.
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 always aim to raise topics and questions relevant to startups/products and my personal endeavors that others might relate to.
The threads usually start with an intro to the topic, my experience, and, lastly, ask others to share their experiences. I try to structure these parts into clear, error-free sections so that they are easy to read. I have never used AI, for what it's worth.
