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Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models

Ars Technica Ashley Belanger 9 September 2026, 20:06 ● Covered by 8 sources

The US NSA, CISA, and FBI accused six Chinese AI firms of industrial-scale distillation that extracted capabilities from US frontier AI models.

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US urges AI firms to ID, then secretly switch, Chinese users to less-capable models.

National Security Agency Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Federal Bureau of Investigation United States

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