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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Chan Ho-Him

China hits back at US claims of 'malicious' AI distillation ahead of planned Trump-Xi talks

China AI Job Fears - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

China hit back Wednesday against U.S. claims that Chinese artificial intelligence developers are engaged in “aggressive, malicious” industrial-scale efforts to extract capabilities from frontier American AI systems.

The FBI, National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint cybersecurity advisory Tuesday that said Chinese AI developers had extracted, or “distilled,” capabilities from U.S. frontier AI models like Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s GPT, Google’s Gemini and SpaceXAI’s Grok “since at least late 2024.”

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