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1 item across 1 edition. First seen Sat 12 Sep, last seen Sat 12 Sep.

Saturday, 12 September 2026

Anthropic names seven China-based AI companies behind distillation campaigns, with 151 million exchanges attributed to Alibaba harmfulCompany claimUpdate

  • The Hacker News reports the seven named companies as Alibaba, Moonshot AI, DeepSeek, Zhipu (Z.ai), MiniMax, SenseTime and Xiaomi, with per-campaign figures: GTG-16005 (Alibaba) 151 million exchanges from May to July 2026 across more than 3,500 fraudulent accounts, peaking near 3 million exchanges a day; GTG-16002 (Moonshot) 23 million exchanges across 5,380 fraudulent accounts registered in Singapore and Japan.
  • Also listed: GTG-16001 (DeepSeek) 12.1 million exchanges over 14 days in July 2026 via a proxy relay; GTG-16006 (Zhipu) 3.4 million exchanges across 273 accounts from June to July 2026; GTG-16008 (Xiaomi) 400,000 exchanges over 20 days in March–April 2026; GTG-16012 (SenseTime), which bought transcripts from vendors; and GTG-16003 (MiniMax), via a shell-company proxy network.
  • Anthropic says it responded by banning reseller accounts and accounts from unsupported regions where users fail to verify identity, by updating Claude to summarise its internal reasoning before responding, and by introducing a "preserved thinking" feature — measures aimed squarely at protecting chain-of-thought traces, which the Alibaba campaign is said to have targeted.
  • This extends yesterday's item, which carried only the 151 million figure for Alibaba-linked accounts. Every figure is Anthropic's own account of activity on its own platform; none of the named companies' responses appear in the report, and no independent party has verified the counts.