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Did China just "clone" the world's most advanced AI at a fraction of the cost? In today’s episode, we investigate the explosive letter sent by Anthropic to U.S. officials on June 24, 2026, accusing the Chinese giant Alibaba of a massive, industrial-scale "distillation attack". We break down the data: 28.8 million exchanges using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts designed to extract Claude’s prized capabilities in software engineering and agentic reasoning.

We dive into the geopolitical fallout, including Alibaba’s plummeting stock and its place on the Pentagon’s blacklist. We also analyze the "adversarial distillation" technique that allows rival labs to bypass years of R&D, and the Trump administration's controversial decision to lock down Anthropic’s own models, Mythos and Fable, citing national security risks. Join us as we explore whether the era of open AI borders is officially over and what this means for the $1 trillion race to the IPO.

This episode includes AI-generated content.