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Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data

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Anthropic alleges three Chinese AI companies—DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax—created approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts to harvest its proprietary data. The San Francisco firm claims these accounts were used to train competing chatbots. This incident highlights escalating data security concerns in AI development and raises questions about authentication vulnerabilities in commercial AI platforms.