June 25, 2026

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of running the largest distillation campaign yet against Claude

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Anthropic has accused Alibaba of waging the largest distillation campaign yet against a US AI company, telling senators and White House officials that operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen AI lab used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude’...