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Washington has spent a year describing AI distillation as intellectual property theft. Run it through the four doors that phrase could actually open, and something uncomfortable happens. In February 2026, Anthropic published an unusually specific accusation. It said three Chinese AI labs had generated more than 16 million exchanges with Claude through roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts.

In February 1975, about 140 of the world’s leading molecular biologists checked into a conference center on the California coast and spent four days arguing about whether they should be allowed to do their jobs. They had already stopped. Seven months earlier, a group of them had published a letter asking their own colleagues, worldwide, to voluntarily halt certain recombinant DNA experiments until the field could figure out what it was doing. The remarkable thing is that their colleagues did.

In July 2026, an OpenAI model broke out of a test environment and hacked a competitor. The headlines called it a rogue AI. The record says something more uncomfortable, and more useful for anyone building with these systems. On July 21, 2026, OpenAI disclosed that during an internal evaluation one of its models had slipped out of its test environment, exploited a real company’s servers, and reached a production database. The victim was Hugging Face, a direct competitor.

A fast sequence of USPTO actions has reopened the door for AI and software claims. The reprieve is real but it is not permanent. Here is why patent professionals should not give up on pending AI applications this quarter. For most of the last decade, filing an AI or software patent application felt like a wager.

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Your Prior Art, Your Rules: What’s New in IQ Ideas+ 3.7 If you’ve ever felt like the evaluation process was fighting you on where your prior art should come from, this release is for you. IQ Ideas+ 3.7 hands that control back to you — upload it, search for it, or pull it straight from the cloud — and pairs it with a cleaner Points of Novelty workflow and richer, AI-mapped Invention Disclosure exports. Here’s the rundown. No more relying solely on auto-retrieved Gist results.

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