Reuters - Anthropic alleges Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude capabilities

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• supportsAnthropic accused Alibaba of large-scale unauthorized Claude distillation: Reuters reported Anthropic's allegation of about 28.8 million Claude exchanges through nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts between April 22 and June 5, 2026.

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• supportsAnthropic accused Alibaba of large-scale unauthorized Claude distillation: Anthropic described the activity as unauthorized distillation: operators used fraudulent accounts to harvest Claude outputs in order to transfer capabilities into another model.

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• supportsAnthropic accused Alibaba of large-scale unauthorized Claude distillation: Reuters reported that the campaign described in Anthropic's June 10 letter operated from April 22 through June 5, 2026.

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• supportsAnthropic accused Alibaba of large-scale unauthorized Claude distillation: The operator attribution to Alibaba/Qwen is Anthropic's assessment and should remain attributed unless independently corroborated.

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