2028 Global Intelligence Crisis & Anthropic Catches Chinese Labs Copying Claude
This Week in AI Newsletter: 2/23/2026
A viral Citrini Research essay imagines a "2028 Global Intelligence Crisis" where AI-driven layoffs boost margins and stocks initially, then trigger 10% unemployment and a 38% S&P crash as consumer spending collapses. More here.
Anthropic accused DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of using 24,000+ fake accounts to distill Claude's capabilities into their own models, generating over 16 million exchanges targeting agentic reasoning, tool use, and coding. More here.
DeepSeek V4 is expected to drop imminently, with CNBC warning the release could rattle Nasdaq stocks as the model reportedly matches or beats American frontier labs in coding. More here.
OpenAI signed multiyear enterprise deals with McKinsey, BCG, Accenture, and Capgemini to push its Frontier AI agent platform into the consulting world. More here.
Accenture is now tying promotions to AI usage after training 550,000 workers last year, calling it a "core expectation" for 2026. More here.
Wispr Flow launched on Android with a floating bubble interface, 30% lower latency than its Mac version, and support for 100+ languages. More here.
