U.S. accuses China's Moonshot of stealing from Anthropic's Fable for latest AI model

The U.S. accuses China's Moonshot AI of stealing Anthropic's Fable model via distillation to build its K3 release, and Treasury is considering sanctions and adding Moonshot to a trade blacklist. This follows a pattern of Chinese firms using fake accounts to extract capabilities from U.S. AI labs, escalating tech tensions between Washington and Beijing.

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