U.S. Government Accuses Chinese AI Firms of 'Systematic' Technology Theft

A joint statement from the National Security Agency (NSA), FBI, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) accused Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI, of systematically stealing proprietary technology from American AI firms. The agencies allege that Chinese firms have used a technique known as 'distillation' since at least late 2024 to access and extract information from U.S. AI models 'at an industrial scale' to train their own systems.