China’s Moonshot AI Stole Anthropic, Trump Tech Adviser Says0

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• July 23, 2026

A White House adviser accused China’s Moonshot AI of a “large-scale” effort to steal the capabilities of leading American artificial intelligence (AI) models. US President Donald Trump’s Science and Technology Advisor Michael Kratsios said Moonshot AI carried out the campaign through what is known as distillation, when a weaker AI model extracts answers from a