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        "msgid": "trump-administration-threatens-sanctions-over-alleged-ai-technology-theft-by-china-1784735506",
        "date": "2026-07-22 21:30:00",
        "title": "Trump Administration Threatens Sanctions Over Alleged AI Technology Theft by China",
        "author": "",
        "source": "CNBC",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Technology",
        "summary": "The United States is threatening sanctions against Chinese artificial intelligence models, accusing them of stealing intellectual property from American companies. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated the US will not tolerate the alleged 'distillation' of American AI technology, particularly pointing to models from Moonshot AI and others. The escalating tech tensions come ahead of planned US-China talks on artificial intelligence.",
        "content": "<p>The technology war between the United States and China is heating up,\nwith the US reportedly planning to investigate allegations that Chinese\nartificial intelligence (AI) models have used technology from American\ncompanies. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that the Trump\nadministration will not tolerate the theft of intellectual property\n(IP). The rise of Chinese open-weight AI models, which are increasingly\ncompeting with leading products from US firms like OpenAI and Anthropic,\nhas sparked concern among technology executives and government officials\nabout the sustainability of America\u2019s edge in the AI race. Bessent\nhighlighted the practice of \u2018distillation\u2019, where a smaller, less\ncapable model is built by leveraging the output of a more powerful one.\nHe noted that some Chinese models were found to contain watermarks from\nAmerican large language models. \u2018If we see, particularly foreign models,\nstealing from our great American companies, we have the ability to put\nsanctions on them for this theft,\u2019 Bessent said in an interview with Fox\nBusiness. The comments follow a letter from Anthropic to a US Senate\ncommittee, accusing Chinese tech company Alibaba of conducting the\nlargest known distillation attack against its firm to date. The US and\nChina are scheduled to hold talks on artificial intelligence in\nSeptember, with Bessent set to represent the United States. However,\nboth Anthropic and OpenAI have also faced intellectual property theft\naccusations in recent years. Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion in\nSeptember to settle a class-action lawsuit from a group of authors who\nclaimed the company illegally downloaded books from pirated databases.\nMeanwhile, The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in 2023,\nalleging the companies infringed its copyright by using its intellectual\nproperty to train AI models.<\/p>",
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