Anthropic accuses Alibaba of illicitly extracting Claude via fake accounts
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Anthropic has accused Alibaba of illegally accessing Claude by creating 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate over 28 million exchanges, describing the effort as the largest distillation-style campaign to extract Claude’s capabilities such as agentic reasoning and long-horizon tasks. Alibaba denies ties to the PLA, and the case underscores ongoing US-China tensions over AI technology and intellectual-property security.
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