Chinese AI labs DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax allegedly created 24,000 fake accounts to run over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its reasoning, coding abilities, and chain-of-thought logic to train their own models. Anthropic traced the activity to specific researchers and described the operation as an industrial-scale theft using proxy networks to disguise traffic. Separately, a lone hacker exploited Claude—along with
