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Policy2026-09-16 · source-backed
His September 15 post works through the disruption report: Alibaba at 151 million exchanges over three months across 3,500+ fraudulent accounts, Moonshot at 23 million while routing user queries to Claude, DeepSeek at 12.1 million in 14 days, Zhipu at 3.4 million targeting Fable's cyber capabilities. His argument is that distillation is upstream of everything else because it transfers "Claude's cognitive skills, without transferring its safeguards." The other categories are small: nine influence operations, six conventional weapons cases, five biological research cases, one dating-app scam.
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25,000 fake accounts. 28.8 million Claude conversations. Six weeks. And the thing they were harvesting wasn't trivia, it was software engineering and agentic reasoning. In a June 24 letter to US senators and the White House, Anthropic alleged that operators tied to Alibaba's Q...
Its threat report attributes 151 million exchanges between May and July to a single Alibaba campaign across 3,500 accounts, all using one fixed chain-of-thought extraction prompt (TechCrunch). It counts more than 12 million DeepSeek exchanges over 14 days. It also says Moonsho...
Anthropic identified industrial-scale capability theft: 24K fake accounts generating 16M+ exchanges from DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax. MiniMax pivoted to new models within 24 hours of each Claude release — suggesting automated distillation pipelines. ---
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna roughly 80%, from $1 to $0.20 per million input and $6 to $1.20 output. Anthropic priced Opus 5 at $5/$25 per million, half of Fable 5. The trigger is DeepSeek, Zhipu's GLM-5.2 and Moonshot's Kimi K3 landing 60-90% below US flagship pricing, with DoorDa...
A researcher found that Claude Code, since v2.1.91 back in April, had been silently embedding invisible Unicode steganographic markers in its system prompts. The technique: tweaking date and apostrophe characters, XOR-obfuscated with key 91, to flag requests routed through thi...
Anthropic identified 24,000+ fraudulent accounts generating 16M+ exchanges with Claude from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax. The agent-specific targeting is key: Moonshot (3.4M exchanges) targeted agentic reasoning and tool use; MiniMax (13M) targeted agentic coding; DeepSe...
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