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Public story · 2026-09-23 · high
The Standard, citing The Information, reports that the Cyberspace Administration of China interviewed executives at DeepSeek and Moonshot AI.
Why now: This entered the 2026-09-23 research corpus from The Standard HK citing The Information (via r/LocalLLaMA, 163 upvotes) and has enough source evidence to become a public Rabbit Hole story.
The Standard, citing The Information, reports that the Cyberspace Administration of China interviewed executives at DeepSeek and Moonshot AI. The concern is that the two labs routed live customer conversations, some containing sensitive information, through Anthropic's Claude to generate training data, which could violate 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. The r/LocalLLaMA thread reached 163 upvotes and 60 comments.
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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 Chi...
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