U.S. Accuses 6 Chinese AI Firms of Data Theft | Raleigh News

The U.S. government has officially accused six Chinese AI firms—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI—of stealing proprietary data from American AI models like Claude, GPT, and Gemini using industrial-scale “distillation” techniques. Backed by NSA, FBI, and CISA, this joint advisory marks a major escalation from corporate complaints to state-level allegations, with implications for sanctions, investor confidence, and global AI policy. Alibaba, the only publicly traded firm on U.S. exchanges among them, faces mounting legal pressure after a class-action lawsuit over allegedly misleading financial disclosures. The Treasury Department now has intelligence-backed grounds to consider...