Bot Swarms · September 2026
Anthropic disrupts Russian, Chinese AI campaigns targeting its Claude models
Anthropic busted seven China-based labs (Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Xiaomi among them) for secretly siphoning Claude's brainpower (Alibaba allegedly pulled 151 million queries), plus a Russia-linked crew running phishing ops with AI at nearly every step. The chatbot wars now feature espionage, theft, and very busy API keys.
Source: Reuters