White House Says China-Linked Actors Tried to ‘Steal American AI’

The White House warns that China-linked entities are conducting industrial-scale knowledge-distillation campaigns against US AI models, using tens of thousands of proxy accounts, jailbreaking, and millions of exchanges to extract capabilities and intellectual property. Companies including OpenAI and Anthropic have reported large-scale targeting (e.g., claims of ~24,000 fraudulent accounts and >16 million exchanges) by firms such as DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax; Washington plans cross-agency assessment, industry coordination on defenses, and measures to hold foreign actors accountable.