Daily Briefing
AI Policy Heats Up
By the Orchestra editors · 4 min read
TL;DR
- Albanese flags major AI policy push as early as next month, with copyright workaround for local model training on the table
- Anthropic accuses Alibaba of massive Claude distillation attack using 25,000 accounts
- OpenAI reveals custom inference chip Jalapeño built with Broadcom
- SMS sender ID deadline July 1: unregistered business texts will show as 'Unverified'
AI · Worldwide
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of massive Claude cloning attack
Anthropic says Alibaba used roughly 25,000 accounts to extract Claude's capabilities across 28.8 million exchanges in what the company calls the largest distillation attack it has faced. Anthropic is pushing for penalties.
OpenAI unveils Jalapeño, its first custom inference chip
Built in partnership with Broadcom, the ASIC is designed specifically for LLM inference at scale. It arrives as OpenAI tries to reduce reliance on Nvidia and manage surging demand across ChatGPT and Codex.
Claude gaining ground on ChatGPT among paying users
Data shows consumers willing to pay for AI assistants are increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, even as ChatGPT maintains its overall market lead. Worth watching for teams evaluating which model to standardise on.
Australian Tech
Albanese flags major AI policy shift as early as July
Speaking at the CEDA State of the Nation conference, the PM said Australia must "shape" AI or be shaped by it, fuelling speculation the government is preparing a copyright workaround to let AI companies train models on local content.
Federal government signs $100m Microsoft support deal
Canberra will pay Microsoft over $100 million for technical support across three years, significantly more than the previous arrangement. The contract was signed ahead of a new volume sourcing agreement.
SMS sender ID deadline looms on July 1
Businesses that haven't registered for SMS sender IDs before July 1 will have their texts labelled 'Unverified' on recipients' phones. If you send customer comms via SMS, sort this now.
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