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The Operator: Straight to the source packet. According to CNBC Technology, President Trump states he has no concerns about artificial intelligence leading to human extinction, emphasizing instead the need for the U.S. to maintain its lead over China in AI development.

The Operator: That comment follows warnings from insiders at frontier labs OpenAI and Anthropic regarding the dangers of rapid AI progress and potential recursive self-improvement, according to CNBC Technology.

The Operator: Also from CNBC Technology: Anthropic reports that Alibaba, Moonshot, and DeepSeek engaged in unauthorized 'distillation' of its Claude models between December 2025 and August 2026.

The Operator: The company identified over 151 million exchanges attributed to Alibaba, which used the data to train its Qwen models, according to CNBC Technology. That is the full readout for this hour.

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