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Chinese AI Labs Extracted 190M Claude Exchanges as Export Controls Failed

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Chinese AI distillation attacks on Anthropic's Claude grew 12-fold to approximately 190 million exchanges between May and July 2026, as seven Chinese labs -- Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot, and four others -- used fraudulent accounts and proxy networks to extract AI capabilities, despite every major US policy response in that same period.

First report: FBI, NSA warn Chinese AI companies like DeepSeek and Alibaba are reportedly carrying out 'industrial-scale' distillation campaigns to boost their models — techradar.com, 5d