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Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Massive Claude Theft via 25K Accounts
Anthropic claims Alibaba orchestrated a large-scale attack on its Claude AI model, using 25,000 accounts to extract data over 28.8 million exchanges. The company alleges the Chinese tech giant defied US export controls to steal proprietary capabilities. Anthropic is calling for legal penalties against Alibaba for the alleged cloning operation.
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The scale of this alleged heist—25,000 accounts and millions of queries—suggests a coordinated industrial espionage effort, not just a lone researcher probing limits.
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