On September 10-11, 2026, Anthropic accused Chinese AI companies including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and Alibaba-affiliated labs of covertly routing millions of customer requests through Claude to extract AI reasoning and improve their own models. One campaign involved 151 million Claude exchanges.
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Anthropic PBC accused China’s artificial intelligence champion Moonshot AI of covertly routing thousands of user requests to the US firm’s Claude models and passing off the responses as its own in a bid to gain an edge in the AI race.
American artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has accused its Chinese AI rivals DeepSeek and Moonshot on Thursday of covertly routing customer requests to its Claude models, then showing users the responses as if they were from their own models. The new allegations mark a further escalation in US criticism of China’s AI industry practices. Earlier this week, three US government agencies, i
Anthropic said it detected unauthorized efforts by China-based AI labs including Alibaba and Moonshot AI to use its Claude models to help improve their own AI systems.
🚨 BREAKING: DEEPSEEK & MOONSHOT ALLEGEDLY ROUTED CUSTOMER DATA THROUGH CLAUDE TO EXTRACT AI REASONING This is an absolutely wild AI security story. Anthropic says DeepSeek and Moonshot secretly routed REAL USER REQUESTS through Claude instead of processing them entirely through their own models. The goal? 👉 Extract Claude’s capabilities. 👉 Capture high-value model outputs. 👉 Use them to train
Anthropic claims China’s Moonshot AI secretly routed some Kimi users’ requests to Claude, then presented Claude’s answers as if they came from Kimi. Anthropic says Moonshot generated 23M+ Claude exchanges from May–July 2026 through 5,380 allegedly fraudulent accounts. During one 10-day period alone, about 300,000 real customer requests were allegedly routed to Claude, mostly Opus. Anthropic furthe
🚨 151 million Claude exchanges in one Alibaba-affiliated distillation campaign. Anthropic says it was part of a broader operation involving seven China-based AI labs, with some using proxy networks, fraudulent accounts, and rerouted user requests to harvest Claude capabilities. Inside the operation: https:// thehackernews.com/2026/09/anth ropic-says-seven-china-based-ai.html