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US Accuses Six Chinese AI Firms of Distilling Frontier ModelsUS Accuses Six Chinese AI Firms of Distilling Frontier Models

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Feed Name: TechRepublic Security

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2026-09-10

Date Updated: 2026-09-11

Author: Aminu Abdullahi

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US agencies (NSA, CISA, FBI) accuse six China-based AI firms of running industrial-scale knowledge-distillation campaigns since late 2024 to extract capabilities from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI models. The advisory alleges extraction of billions of tokens using account pools, proxy “transfer stations,” continuous 24-hour usage and quota-abuse to obtain reasoning, coding and agentic capabilities; it recommends detection, identity checks, behavioral monitoring and altering responses to suspected distillation, and warns of competitive and national-security risks while China denies the claims.

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