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China hits back at US claims of ‘malicious’ AI distillation ahead of planned Trump-Xi talks
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China has dismissed U.S. claims that Chinese artificial intelligence developers extract capabilities from frontier American AI systems. On Wednesday, China's Commerce Ministry said the U.S. accusations were groundless. Its Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged the U.S.
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U.S. cyber and law-enforcement officials accuse Chinese AI companies, including Alibaba and DeepSeek, of industrial-scale distillation—illicitly using outputs from American models to train their own—likely with Chinese government awareness.
By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Chinese artificial intelligence firms are committing “industrial-scale” theft of their American counterparts’ trade secrets to save money and bring the coveted technology to market faster, US federal agencies alleged Tuesday.
In its most detailed accusation yet, the U.S. government has named six Chinese AI companies that it says copied American companies for their AI secrets.
US security agencies have accused China’s top AI companies including DeepSeek and Kimi maker Moonshot AI of systematically extracting proprietary knowledge from American firms and warned Silicon Valley developers to protect their work.
China’s approach to AI is eerily familiar. Beijing steals IP, subsidizes domestic producers, blocks foreign competitors, and then floods global markets. The U.S. can’t let that happen with AI, write Matt Pottinger and Liza Tobin.
China has dismissed U.S. claims that Chinese artificial intelligence developers extract capabilities from frontier American AI systems. On Wednesday, China's Commerce Ministry said the U.S. accusations were groundless. Its Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged the U.S.
The NSA, FBI, and CISA named DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI as having extracted billions of tokens from U.S. frontier models since 2024
BANGKOK — China hit back Wednesday against U.S. claims that Chinese artificial intelligence developers are engaged in “aggressive, malicious” industrial-scale efforts to extract capabilities from frontier American AI systems.
The U.S. government’s answer to China stealing American artificial intelligence data appears to involve identifying the thieves before disrupting and exposing them. The National Security Agency (NSA), […]
U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies say that six Chinese AI companies conducted industrial-scale distillation attacks on American frontier AI models since at least late 2024. [...]
