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Anthropic sent a letter to U.S. Senators Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren accusing Alibaba's Qwen AI lab of conducting 28.8 million exchanges with Claude through 25,000 fraudulent accounts between April 22 and June 5, 2026. Anthropic called it the largest known distillation attack on its models, designed to replicate Mythos Preview capabilities in coding, reasoning, and cybersecurity. The company described distillation attacks as turning hundreds of billions in American AI investment into a subsidy for geopolitical competitors.

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