Anthropic accuses Alibaba of illicitly accessing Claude via thousands of fraudulent accounts
Anthropic PBC says Alibaba's Qwen AI lab conducted a large-scale campaign to illicitly access Claude using about 25,000 fraudulent accounts, totaling 28.8 million exchanges with Claude from April to June; the effort is described as the largest attempt by a Chinese company to piggyback on US AI labs, aiming to distill Claude's capabilities into a rival model. Alibaba's ADRs fell more than 3% on the Bloomberg report.