AI ESPIONAGE

Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, claims that between April 22 and June 5, 2026, a group linked to Alibaba used fake accounts—about 25, 000 in total—to chat with Claude over 28. 8 million times. The company says this was an effort to copy Claude’s abilities so that Alibaba could build a co

America's top AI labs are warning that foreign hackers are quietly draining their most advanced work. Instead of breaking into systems with guns blazing, these attackers use a smarter trick: they steal the output of AI systems to rebuild weaker copies. The process, called "industrial distillation, "