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Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic has accused three AI firms of illicitly using its large language model Claude to improve their own models in a technique known as a “distillation” attack. In a blog post on Sunday, Anthropic said that it had identified these “attacks” by DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax, which involve training a less capable model on the outputs of a stronger one.Anthropic accused the trio of generating “over 16 million exchanges” combined with the firm’s Claude AI across “approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts.” “Distillation is a widely used and legitimate training method. For example, frontier AI labs routinely distill their own…

Cava issued an upbeat sales forecast for this year, as cautious customers shook off the effects of snowstorms and last year’s government shutdown to return to the Mediterranean fast-casual chain for bowls and salads.

Yen under pressure after Takaichi report; Aussie higher on inflation

Key PointsJoby Aviation and Archer Aviation are two of the most well-known eVTOL stocks.Simply because a stock isn’t popular doesn’t mean it’s not a valid investment option.An investment in a pre-revenue company such as an eVTOL stock requires investors to be comfortable with a higher degree of risk.10 stocks we like better than Vertical Aerospace ›In these early days of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) flight, there are the usual suspects. Joby Aviation (NYSE: JOBY) and Archer Aviation (NYSE: ACHR) are two companies at the vanguard of this revolution in air travel.But they’re not alone. Another eVTOL specialist has…

A Lucid Gravity coming off the line at the company’s factory in Casa Grande, Arizona.Lucid Group reported mixed fourth-quarter results Tuesday as the electric vehicle maker continues to face challenging market conditions and internal struggles.The company widely missed Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations, while beating average revenue estimates by roughly 12%. It also revised its 2025 production results due to internal validation issues, but guided for a notable increase in vehicle production this year.Here’s how the company performed in the fourth quarter compared with average estimates compiled by LSEG: Loss per share: $3.62 vs. a loss of $2.62 cents expected Revenue: $523…

Jamaica cuts rates as outlook for inflation improves – Central Banking Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content Figure expected to return to target by December, central bank says The Bank of Jamaica on February 23 cut its policy rate by 25 basis points to 5.5% and said the direct impact of last year’s hurricane on inflation had been less severe than expected. The bank said the cut – its first since last May – had been made possible by a better-than-expected improvement in agricultural supplies and a rally in the Jamaican dollar over recent months, both of which…

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Crypto isn’t just building faster payments rails. It may be building the financial system for non-humans.As AI agents grow more autonomous, developers are already giving them crypto wallets, allowing software to hold assets, pay for services, trade tokens and even hire other agents. The technical pieces are falling into place. The legal ones are not.At a recent panel at NEARCON 2026, Electric Capital’s Avichal Garg framed the moment as historically significant.“What happens if there’s not a human behind it at all?” Garg asked. “It’s some piece of code that owns a wallet, executing code to make…

Famous for fundamentally reshaping how the world thinks about investing, Benjamin Graham’s influence is so deep that modern value investing, including the philosophy of his protégé Warren Buffett, is built directly on his ideas.  Even though Buffett became an extraordinary stock picker and arguably the greatest investor in our time, he endorses one of Graham’s fundamental themes, that most investors will do better with low-cost index funds rather than individual stock picking.  Graham never commented on S&P 500 index funds directly, as they didn’t exist in his prime, but late in his life, he explicitly endorsed the idea that most investors would be…

A wheel loader operator fills a truck with ore at the MP Materials rare earth mine in Mountain Pass, California, U.S. January 30, 2020. Steve Marcus | ReutersA new race to secure critical minerals is unfolding across the global economy.From Washington’s proposed $12 billion Project Vault stockpile to expanding buffers in Asia and the European Union, governments are moving to secure access to metals increasingly viewed as essential to national security and industrial policy.”In metals and minerals is where the newest wave of stockpiling is most visible,” said Patrick Schröder, senior research fellow at Chatham House. Governments are seeking to…

Mention markets are the high-octane, fast-twitch speed competitions of the prediction market world. But they’re just one corner of it. Users of Kalshi and its primary rival, Polymarket, can bet on events major and minor, from politics to sports to culture to the weather. Recent markets on Kalshi have included whether certain words would be used during a Palantir Technologies Inc. earnings call, whether Elon Musk would win his court case against OpenAI and whether the highest temperature in Seattle on Feb. 4 would be within a certain range. Polymarket users have bet on whether the US would strike Iran…