AI Is Now Making Your MacBook More Expensive

Alibaba used 25,000 fake accounts to steal Anthropic's secrets. And your next MacBook just got 20% more expensive because of AI.

Two stories this week, both pointing at the same thing: the AI arms race has consequences, and they're starting to land on real people.

Chapter Timestamps

00:00 — Intro: two stories, one theme
00:21 — Anthropic vs Alibaba: the distillation attack explained
01:42 — 25,000 fake accounts, 20 million interactions with Claude
04:58 — This isn't the first time: DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Minimax
06:41 — The hypocrisy angle: Anthropic trained on other people's data too
10:16 — Qwen costs 5 cents per million tokens. Claude Opus costs $5.
13:21 — The geopolitical angle: why the US government got involved
15:54 — The Scooby-Doo twist (you'll want to watch this bit)
19:32 — MacBooks going up 15–20% because of AI chip demand
20:34 — Hyperscalers are buying all the RAM. You're subsidising the arms race.
25:30 — Next episode teaser: trusting AI agents — what are the real risks?

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