Anthropic spied on Chinese users of its Claude Code chatbot to uncover AI rivals
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Cate Cadell, Gerrit De Vynck, Nitasha Tiku
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Anthropic secretly deployed spyware on its Claude Code chatbot to monitor China-based customers, aiming to identify Chinese rivals suspected of using Anthropic's technology to improve their own AI systems. This highlights the covert espionage battle between U.S. and Chinese tech companies over AI intellectual property.
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· 3 pulledIn March, artificial intelligence company Anthropic quietly deployed software to spy on China-based customers of its popular coding chatbot Claude Code.
The apparent goal: unmasking the Chinese rivals the company suspected of hijacking its technology to make their own AI tools smarter.
American tech firms say rivals are forcing their chatbots to act as tutors to make Chinese AI smarter.
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