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Anthropic said that five campaigns linked to Chinese artificial intelligence companies attempted to extract advanced capabilities from the Claude model through nearly 200 million interactions, including one campaign attributed to Alibaba and another to Moonshot AI. The company believes these methods could be used to produce training data for competing models, although the report presents the company’s allegations and the material provides no independent evidence supporting them.
OpenAI’s Astra model is expected to use “recurrent depth,” a technology that processes queries through repeated loops instead of the usual sequence, potentially making reasoning traces less clear to observers. The company says the technology’s use will be limited and that it remains committed to preserving readable chains of thought, but AI safety researchers warn that its use could expand.