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Research Breaking Feb 23

MIT Investigation: Humanoid Robot Demos Conceal Widespread Remote Human Control

On February 23, MIT Technology Review published an investigation on the widespread but inadequately disclosed use of human teleoperation in humanoid robot development and consumer deployments. The report drew on academic research, company disclosures, and direct reporting to argue that the extent of human labor behind marketed "autonomous" robots is being systematically obscured.

Companies Breaking Feb 23

Anthropic Caught DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax Distilling Claude at Scale

Anthropic published evidence on February 23, 2026 that three AI companies ran large-scale distillation attacks against Claude - essentially using its outputs to train their own models cheaper and faster than doing independent research.