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Latent Space · Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Anthropic Updates API to Prevent Chain of Thought Model Distillation

Anthropic implemented incremental API updates, such as enforcing preserved thinking blocks across turns, to make their models harder to distill from after a public research disclosure.

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“And so there has been some changes that we have made to go and make that a little bit more concrete, and these are things about... how do we do, like, prefix lock thinking or how you can replay thinking tokens across different types of models.”
Angela
Heard on Latent Space — “How Anthropic ships the #1 LLM in the World safely: Separating the Brain from the Hands”, published Tuesday, October 27, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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Anthropic Updates API to Prevent Chain of Thought Model Distillation — Heardvine