US Biz Accuse China Of Massive AI Thefts

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-ai-giants-accuse-chinese-rivals.html

US artificial intelligence company Anthropic said Monday it
had uncovered campaigns by three Chinese AI firms to illicitly
extract capabilities from its Claude chatbot, in what it
described as industrial-scale intellectual property theft.

Anthropic said DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax used a
technique known as "distillation"—using outputs from a more
powerful AI system to rapidly boost the performance of a
less capable one.

"These campaigns are growing in intensity and sophistication,"
the company said in a statement. "The window to act is narrow."

Distillation is a common practice within AI development, often
used by companies to create cheaper, smaller versions of their
own models.

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   Gee ... what's new ?

   And there's really NOTHING to do about it.

   Well ......... if you could conspire to make
   sure China got 'poisoned' data ....... :-)