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Very recently, there have been more than suspicions that China has been stealing US AI secrets to build their own models, inexpensively. Several American companies, led by Anthropic, say it is so. The huge AI firm, valued at about $1 trillion, sent a letter to Senators, which appears to have settled the matter of the ... Proof That China Is Stealing US AI

<body><p>STORY: Chinese authorities have looked into restricting overseas access to the country's top AI models.</p><p>That's what sources have told Reuters.</p><p>They added authorities held meetings with top tech firms over the past month about the issue.</p><p>The talks follow a number of steps by Beijing to keep homegrown AI within the country.</p><p>It also shows China, like the U.S., now treats AI as a critical national asset that needs controls.</p><p>The sources said tech giants like Alibaba, ByteDance and Z.ai were at the talks.</p><p>Chinese AI models have expanded globally since the launch of DeepSeek's R1 model last year.</p><p>It's partly due to their low costs and growing capabilities.</p><p>Any decision by Beijing to limit access to those products could ripple across AI markets as costs for many businesses would likely rise.</p><p>Two of the sources said the meetings were led by China's Ministry of Commerce and participants talked about putting limits on the most advanced AI models.</p><p>That included both closed-source and more open versions.</p><p>They added officials talked about making any leak or theft of exclusive AI technology an offense under China's national security law.</p><p>A source further said officials raised the possibility of implementing new measures to restrict who can fund domestic AI startups.</p><p>The sources said the scope of the potential restrictions is still being discussed, and may only apply to future models.</p><p>It wasn't immediately clear when or even if they would come into force.</p><p>China's commerce ministry and the National Development and Reform Commission didn't respond to Reuters requests for comment.</p><p>Alibaba, ByteDance and Z.ai also didn't respond to Reuters queries.</p><p>Three sources also told Reuters DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip.</p><p>It's a move which could lower its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips.</p><p>They said it would be designed for inference rather than for training new models.</p><p>Inference is the stage of AI computing where a trained model generates responses for users.</p><p>The company didn't respond to a request for comment.</p></body>
Alibaba reportedly banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code at work.
By Fanny Potkin SINGAPORE, July 7 (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have held meetings with top tech firms over the past month about potentially restricting overseas access to China's most advanced AI
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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) will reportedly ban employees from using Anthropic’s (NASDAQ:ANTP) Claude Code in its workplace systems from July 10 over alleged security concerns, according to a Reuters report citing a person familiar with the matter. The decision follows a report by Chinese financial publication Yicai, which claimed that Alibaba had identified what it described as embedded “backdoor” risks within the AI-powered coding assistant.
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code at work after the tool drew scrutiny for features that can help identify China-linked users, according to a person familiar with the order. The ban is part of a deepening spat between the two companies after Anthropic accused Alibaba of illicitly extracting its Claude AI model capabilities — a dispute that highlights the frantic race between the U.S. and China to take the lead in artificial intelligence. Claude Code is Anthropic's AI coding assistant for software developers.