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NSA, CISA and FBI: China Is Systematically Looting US AI Models at Industrial Scale
U.S. agencies including the NSA, CISA, and FBI have accused multiple China-based AI companies — including DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI — of conducting large-scale "distillation attacks" to systematically extract capabilities from American frontier AI models such as Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok. The companies allegedly bypassed geographic restrictions and terms of service using VPNs, obfuscated accounts, proxy networks, and third-party aggregators to harvest billions of tokens, significantly shortcutting their own AI development timelines and costs. U.S. agencies have recommended that AI companies implement stronger detection measures and coordinate across platforms to counter these distributed campaigns.
Flagged as a Pentagon Supply Chain Risk, Anthropic Is Probably Getting the NSA Contract Anyway
Despite being flagged as a supply chain risk by the Pentagon due to its refusal to allow unrestricted lawful use of its technology, Anthropic will likely continue supplying its Claude-based "Mythos" model to the NSA, with the arrangement personally approved by White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Mythos is reportedly the only short-term solution for the NSA's classified networks because it can run on older chips, unlike models from competitors that require Nvidia's latest hardware. A contract being finalized includes a clause preventing the model from processing Americans' data, and the White House intends to use it as a template for future AI agreements.