Technology & Startups — Chinese AI Labs Accused of Using 24,000 Fake Accounts to Mine Anthropic's Claude Capabilities Amid US Export Control Debates

Technology & Startups · 2026-02-25

The artificial intelligence industry is entering a phase of heightened competitive tension between US and Chinese entities, marked by increasingly sophisticated attempts to reverse engineer capabilities rather than build them from scratch. The accusation that Chinese AI labs deployed 24,000 fake accounts to mine Claude's capabilities represents a strategic shift in how AI intellectual property is…