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Shopify's LLM proxy and distillation stack | VentureBeat: Shopify built an LLM proxy and distillation pipeline so its engineers keep working when any model goes ...
venturebeat.com/orchestration/how-shopify-built-an-ai-stack-that-doesnt-care-which-models-survive

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China increasingly depends on copying American AI: Model distillation infuriates America, but may end up holding China back
economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/10/25/china-increasingly-depends-on-copying-american-ai

Paid articlePaywallHackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts: OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that's become a popular ...
techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/hackers-hit-ai-coding-tool-opencode-running-up-charges-on-users-ai-accounts/

Shopify CEO says employees’ ‘slop grenades’ are making more work for everyone else
fortune.com/2026/09/17/shopify-tobias-lutke-ai-slop-grenades/

Paid articlePaywallAnthropic says new safeguards sharply reduce AI distillation attacks: Anthropic said on Monday new measures designed to prevent rivals from copying the ...
reuters.com/world/china/anthropic-says-new-safeguards-sharply-reduce-ai-distillation-attacks-2026-10-13/

What is AI model distillation, and why is it so hard to stop?: Anthropic and OpenAI accused Chinese AI developers of mining their models’ answers to train ...
scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-ai-model-distillation-and-why-is-it-so-hard-to-stop/

Shopify taught AI to spot duplicate products. Here’s why retailers are scrambling.
thenewstack.io/shopify-catalog-agent-discovery/

Replit shows how vibe coding is getting its own financial stack — and a path to profit
thenewstack.io/replit-shopify-storefront-integration/

Anthropic exposes how Chinese AI firms try to steal LLM tech: Anthropic says companies like DeepSeek are engaged in widespread fraud.
mashable.com/article/anthropic-details-chinese-ai-companies-distillation-attacks

Everyone is chasing bigger language models.
On Beyond the Pilot, we talk with Erran Berger, VP of Product Engineering at LinkedIn ... Show more
The AI Distillation Cookbook: While the rest of the industry chases massive models, LinkedIn quietly achieved a major engineering breakthrough by going small ...
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Is AI Is Killing Entry-Level Hiring? Not at Shopify: Conventional wisdom says automation is wiping out low-level positions. Not on CEO Tobi Lütke's watch.
inc.com/jessica-stillman/is-ai-is-killing-entry-level-hiring-not-at-shopify/91285290

The AI dollar store is here and could be trouble for Big Tech : Cheaply built AI abounds as developers riff off Big Tech's costly offerings ...
businessinsider.com/deepseek-openai-distillation-big-tech-trouble-cheap-commodity-ai-2025-3
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