Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports

Anthropic alleges Chinese AI labs DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used 24,000 fake accounts to extract and replicate Claude's capabilities through distillation techniques. This accusation emerges amid U.S. policy debates on restricting AI chip exports to slow China's AI advancement, highlighting growing tensions in global AI development competition and intellectual property concerns.