US accuses China of AI theft

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Published 21.46

          

        White House science advisor Michael Kratsios. Archive photo. Photo: Alex Brandon/AP/TT

The White House is making sharp accusations against Chinese actors for “large-scale operations” to steal American AI technology.

“The United States has evidence that foreign actors, primarily in China, are conducting large-scale operations to steal American AI,” writes Michael Kratsios, a White House science advisor, on X.

He also writes:

“We will take action to protect American innovation.

In February, the American AI company Anthropic accused three Chinese competitors – Deepseek, Moonshot AI and Minimax – of “on an industrial scale” trying to steal knowledge from Anthropic’s AI tool Claude.