# US says China's Moonshot stole from Anthropic — retained record

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source: [news](https://highsignal.app/data/news) (news:semafor)  published 2026-07-22 22:57 ingested 2026-07-23 08:38

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The US accused a leading Chinese AI startup of exploiting American tech to create its latest model, threatening sanctions in response to what Washington described as “industrial-scale” theft of intellectual property.
The White House alleged that Moonshot improperly used Nvidia chips and Anthropic’s Fable model to create Kimi K3, whose advanced capabilities caused a US tech selloff last week reminiscent of the DeepSeek shock.
Washington is stepping up efforts to deter “distillation,” whereby one model is trained on another’s outputs — a process it believes China is using to develop frontier AI that could threaten US national security. But you “can’t stop software at the border,” Semafor’s tech editor argued: “You prevent those risks by hardening your own defenses.”
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