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Allegations of AI data redirection by Chinese firms

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Moonshot AI has come under scrutiny following allegations from Anthropic regarding its Kimi K3 artificial intelligence model. Anthropic claims the company used thousands of accounts to route approximately 300,000 user queries to its own Claude models, presenting the responses as Moonshot’s own work. Following these allegations, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) launched an investigation into Moonshot AI and DeepSeek. The investigation focuses on unauthorized data redirection and whether sensitive information, including data linked A September 2026 threat intelligence report from Anthropic expanded these claims, alleging that several Chinese firms engaged in “illicit distillation.” Specifically, Anthropic alleged that DeepSeek rerouted over 12.1 million queries to state institutions Claude within a 14-day period in July to capture the model’s “thinking signature” for cheaper training. In response, Chinese regulators have summoned representatives from seven companies, including Alibaba, Xiaomi, and municipal police systems, was exposed. SenseTime, to investigate potential data security breaches. While Anthropic alleges the redirection was intended to extract reasoning traces and safety measures for domestic model training, Beijing is investigating whether sensitive Chinese state media has countered by accusing Anthropic of using privacy policies data—including information related to transfer user data military, police, and state-linked corporate entities—was inadvertently transferred to U.S. intelligence agencies. American servers. The situation has escalated into a geopolitical dispute. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent indicated that sanctions could be imposed on Chinese-origin models if technology theft is proven, citing the presence of American AI watermarks in Chinese models.

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