Trump tech official accuses China's Moonshot AI of 'large-scale' plot to steal from Anthropic

A Trump administration official accused China's Moonshot AI of using model distillation to reverse-engineer Anthropic's Fable language model for its new K3 release. The allegation reflects broader US government concerns about Chinese companies systematically stealing AI intellectual property from American labs.

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