US accuses Chinese AI company of stealing secrets

The Trump administration has accused Chinese AI company Moonshot of illegally acquiring Nvidia Blackwell chips and using adversarial distillation to reverse-engineer US AI models, particularly OpenAI and Anthropic systems, to develop its Kimi K3 model. US officials signal potential sanctions and legislative action against Chinese firms engaged in model theft.

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