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Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks
Reported by The Hacker News · Sep 11, 2026 4:15 PM
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What is being reported
Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (aka Zhipu), and MiniMax.
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