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The Standard, citing The Information, reports the Cyberspace Administration interviewed executives at both labs over live customer conversations, some containing sensitive information, being routed through Anthropic's models to generate training data, potentially violating China's data security laws. The report says Anthropic had named seven Chinese labs as misusing Claude, including Alibaba, Z.AI, MiniMax, SenseTime and Xiaomi.
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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...
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a sparse mixture-of-experts activating 16 of 896 experts per token. That's about 1.8% of the pool live at any moment, with a 1M-token context window and native vision. Two new architectural pieces show up: Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residu...
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 Fab...
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 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...
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. ---
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