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Anthropic details distillation efforts by Chinese companies, like Moonshot and DeepSeek, sending user queries to Claude via 'transfer stations' outside China (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: Anthropic details distillation efforts by Chinese companies, like Moonshot and DeepSeek, sending user queries to Claude via “transfer stations” outside China — Anthropic says Deep
Wall Street Journal: Anthropic details distillation efforts by Chinese companies, like Moonshot and DeepSeek, sending user queries to Claude via “transfer stations” outside China — Anthropic says DeepSeek and Moonshot used thousands of fake accounts and millions of real user queries in ‘distillation’ effort to clone its AI capabilities
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- A look at a thriving underground economy for Claude access in China, including 'transfer station' sites that buy API tokens abroad and distribute them to users (Wired)
- The NSA, CISA, and FBI issue a joint advisory warning that Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek, are conducting 'industrial-scale' distillation campaigns (Reuters)
- Anthropic says it is rolling back a covert Claude Code tracking feature to identify users based in China or affiliated with Chinese AI labs, after backlash (Juro Osawa/The Information)
- Diplomatic cable: US State Department has ordered a global push to bring attention to what it says are efforts by Chinese companies to steal IP from US AI labs (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
Source: Techmeme | 2026-09-10