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COBOL Was Never the Product. The Toll Booth Was.
Anthropic’s COBOL pitch is not about old code. It threatens the costly consulting bottleneck around banks, insurers, and government legacy systems.
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When Markets React to Perceived Disruption: Claude Code Security and the Cybersecurity Sector
Anthropic’s Claude Code Security announcement triggered a sharp drop in cybersecurity stocks, highlighting investor fears about AI-driven disruption.
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Distillation attacks on large language models: motives, actors and defences
The essay explores unauthorized AI model distillation, profiling actors like DeepSeek and examining motivations such as cost reduction and performance cloning, while reviewing defense measures by major AI companies.
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The Opaque Prompt Pipeline: Why “AI-Powered” Tools Make You Leak on Autopilot
Many “AI-powered” apps hide the model, costs, and retention—turning your text into an untracked data export. That’s not paranoia.
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Prompting’s Midlife Crisis: Turning Incantations into Infrastructure
Anthropic’s Skills shift prompting from clever phrasing to testable, trigger-based instruction packages—less mystique, more engineering.
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