Teahose.
SIGN IN
NEW HERE — WHAT TEAHOSE DOES
We read the entire AI & tech firehose — so you don't have to.
PODPodcastsAll-In, No Priors, Acquired…
NEWNewslettersStratechery, Newcomer…
PAPPapersPhysical AI research
PHProduct Huntdaily launches
VCInvestor ScoutSequoia, a16z, Benchmark…
CLAUDE DISTILLS →
7 reads, 30 sec each — free, 6 AM ET.
+ a live graph of the companies, people & themes underneath.
HOME/PEOPLE/MICHAEL KRATSIOS
// PERSON

Michael Kratsios

ROLE WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALMENTIONS 3LAST SEEN JULY 24, 2026
// BIO

White House official scheduled to meet with Anthropic, the CIA, and Commerce Department on Fable export control compliance.

Discussed in
// RECENT MENTIONS
// SIGNALS
3 SIGNALS
01
product·AI+ Government·JULY 24, 2026

The Trump administration is constructing a two-tier distillation doctrine — one that protects open-weight AI development for domestic innovators while creating enforcement mechanisms (sanctions, Entity List) against Chinese firms accused of industrial-scale IP theft.

Source
02
product·All In·JULY 24, 2026

China's Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open source model performing on par with frontier American models at roughly 50% lower cost. The speed of commoditization is the real story — not just that China caught up, but how fast the entire category is repricing.

Source
03
mention·StrictlyVC·JULY 23, 2026

White House science adviser Michael Kratsios directly accused Chinese startup Moonshot AI of stealing from Anthropic by covertly distilling its Fable model to build Kimi K3.

Source

AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.