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#10 The Hacker News general February 24, 2026 at 06:04 UTC

Anthropic Says Chinese AI Firms Used 16 Million Claude Queries to Copy Model

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

Anthropic identified 'industrial-scale campaigns' by Chinese AI firms DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax that generated over 16 million queries through 24,000 fraudulent accounts to illegally extract Claude's capabilities. The distillation attacks violated terms of service and aimed to improve competing AI models using stolen intellectual property.

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